When Schadenfreude Runs Wild.
Pic courtesy of LAist
Last night here in LA, a Bentley with Illinois plates led police on a chase that lasted over three hours, ultimately climaxing with a two hour standoff just north of Universal Studios. Early reports indicated that the event was spurred by a possible assault with a deadly weapon on the driver's girlfriend, leading many people to speculate that this could have been Chris Brown, a.k.a. Chris Breezy, in full career meltdown mode. As you can imagine, this piqued many people's interest, which in turn translated into a flurry of Facebook activity.
I'm not one to republish online conversations as I usually find reading other people's discussions a bit annoying, but nevertheless, I'm doing it here to give you a sense of the excitement, thrill, and eventual disappointment of the chase...
First my status:
Ben loves the new Monday tradition: 24 followed by a car chase. 11:00pm
Then the comments:
Brady at 11:03pm February 9
And it might be a celeb in a $300,000 car.
Ben at 11:06pm February 9
Chris Brown!
Ben at 11:07pm February 9
I can see all the helicopters from my bedroom window. It's awesome.
Adam at 11:07pm February 9
i was totally thinking it could be Chris Brown!
IndianJones at 11:11pm February 9
I love how the news is delicately avoiding mentioning Chris Brown by name
Ben at 11:12pm February 9
Bris Crown!
Ben at 11:13pm February 9
Ginger, the helicopter reporter on KTLA, has never seen anything like this!
Ben at 11:14pm February 9
he's stopped!
Ben at 11:15pm February 9
the trunk is opening!
IndianJones at 11:16pm February 9
I'm taping it
Ben at 11:17pm February 9
The last stand of Chris Breezy?
IndianJones at 11:18pm February 9
Live suicide?
Ben at 11:19pm February 9
So nice of him to stop in such a well lit area.
Ben at 11:21pm February 9
ABC news van has arrived. maybe we'll get a better view.
Ben at 11:28pm February 9
I gotta admit, I'll be a little upset if this isn't Chris Brown.
IndianJones at 11:31pm February 9
i know. It will be ANTI-climactic.
Ben at 11:32pm February 9
If I could click "like" on this standoff, I would. But if it's not Chris Brown, I'll click "unlike."
Ben at 11:46pm February 9
Now they're saying it might not be a celebrity. Not cool.
Julie at 11:53pm February 9
I just want this to be over so I can go to bed!
Julie at 11:56pm February 9
And now they're reminiscing about the guy who blew his head off on live TV a few years ago... nice.
Ben at 11:57pm February 9
This guy should just give up. There's nothing left he can do.
IndianJones at 11:58pm February 9
wow, KTLA just broke away from it. I guess they got bored too.
Ben at 12:03am February 10
KCAL 9 has it. They had a shot of the guy's face. Not Chris Brown. They're saying it might be DJ Khaled from Terror Squad.
IndianJones at 12:03am February 10
yeah. Disappointing.
Ben at 12:05am February 10
Chris Breezy would have been much better.
Ben at 7:30am February 10
And after all that, it's not even DJ Khaled.
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Ah, the heartaches of a promising car chase gone bland. For all those who are interested, the guy's name was Mustafa Mustafa, and he shot himself in the car and died.
Downer.
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There was a TV sitcom 1999-2001 called "It's Like, You Know ..." and they did an episode of a LA car chase where everyone in LA stopped whatever they were doing to watch it on TV. One of the main characters in the show - Shrug (played by Evan Handler) had been documenting car chases and gave statistics on what freeways at what time of the day were best.
This reminded me of that. I like when one funny thing reminds me of another. It's like a bonus laugh!
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