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CHiPs
1977 · TV series · 48 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Rick Rosner
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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This reminds me of the CHiPs episode "Bright Flashes", where robbers temporarily blind patrons and staff so that they can rob stores. It's from 1982, when lasers were the hot new thing and imaginations ran wild. To my knowledge, it never became a thing, because why would it?
Similarly, why would you want to target an individual with an AI laser weapon to blind them? To kill them, sure, like the Israeli assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but not to blind them.
Freeway "culture" is SoCal is something that absolutely fascinates me.
Prefacing each freeway number with "The"
Sigalerts
short cut culture - they are like secret snow skiing powder stashes
Hollywood definitely contributed to this with shows like CHIPS and movies like "Speed" - it's interesting how life in SoCal really does revolve around freeways more than anywhere else in the United States.
The episode of CHiPs that demonstrates this procedure was later cited as a source by police officers who encountered a vehicle with a similar problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/03/usa.stevenmorris
> The 80s were a crime paradise.--drug gangs, mafia, wall st white collar crime, informercial scams, televangelist and cult scams --you name it, it all thrived in the 80s.
All of which you saw in a 30 min episode of CHIPS, which aired in the 70s to the 80s, right? I'm not proud of these seedy days, in fact its something I think most of us are ashamed of entirely and would prefer to be solely known for tech, beaches and sunshine. But it isn't true, and it baffles me as a person who lived through that to see many people claiming this the worst CA has ever seen. It's definitely bad, and perhaps underscores why California should be its own Country in my opinion.
But we've been here and done that and to a much worse degree then proceeded to make a place for outsiders to come when it all went well, and they then jacked up the cost of living and made it a worst place to be and raise children only to flee in hard times so many times we should be used to it, but it still sucks to see California like this after all we did.
I've lived and worked all over the Western World, but California in the 90s was a magical place despite all the crazy stuff that actually would instill resilience and problem solving skills out of necessity in me since I was a child just to survive. Skills that I know I would have gotten if I grew up in Zurich, Vienna or Bavaria or some other placid place.
I just hope we get to see it once more as every time I go back it looks further and further away from the place I knew and loved.
I think I remember this being done on an episode of CHiPS.
Don't laugh: I learned how to shift w/o a working clutch from an article in Motor Trend and it came in handy one day.