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We were driving down Seventh Street in downtown Phoenix yesterday when we spotted this four-wheeled freak show (pictured below) heading north near Thomas.
Apparently, the owner of this hoopty no longer needed the space and convenience of his Chevy Lumina mini-van, and opted to shed his soccer dad image by converting it into either a convertible or a pickup truck -- we can't decide what the ultimate goal of the conversion was, but the end result was far less cool than other automotive transformations we've seen (Delorean/time machine instantly comes to mind).
Check it out below.
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A Chandler man was arrested today for doing one of the most inexplicably stupid things we've ever seen: speeding down the highway with half his body out the sunroof of his car in a county renowned for its use of photo radar.
He wasn't even wearing a monkey mask, like a previous speedster looking to laugh in the face of the law.
Department of Public Safety officers nabbed 25-year-old Richard Anthony Flores Jr.on two counts of reckless driving and one count of criminal speeding after he had his photo snapped by several speed cameras as he drove down the U.S. 60 at Alma School Drive.
DPS officials say Flores was driving his car at 90 miles per hour in a 65 m.p.h. zone the first time he had his photo taken, and was driving above the posted speed limit while -- as you can see in the above photo -- standing through his sunroof.
The following are 10 random things that, at the start of this weird decade, we never would have believed:
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2. That Rick Romley, the conservative and often-maligned (by New Times, anyway) Maricopa County Attorney for 16 years would look like a saint (metaphorically, i.e. that's Romley in the photo) in comparison to his successor, the zealot Andrew Peyton Thomas.
3. That Bobby Khan, a semi-wild and crazy guy we met when he was working as a grunt firefighter at Station 21, in south Phoenix, would become the chief -- and a good one -- of the nation's fifth-largest city.
4. That an insignificant minor-league bully named Russell Pearce would finagle his way into such a powerful position in the Arizona Legislature.
5. That light rail actually would happen, and be pretty flippin' cool.
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This is our through-the-windshield shot of a gigantic earthmover being escorted by DPS cruisers this morning going west on McDowell Road. The wheels of the vehicle probably needed a wide-load sign themselves.
We caught up to the procession ahead of us to take this shot, observing as the tractor-trailer's driver moved into oncoming lanes (cleared by the state troopers) to avoid taking out the overhanging streetlights. A similarly escorted load had driven by moments earlier.
Hey, good-lookin' -- be a model for a fancy strip mall in the North Valley.
The Shops at Noterra, which opened in 2006 near Interstate 17 and Happy Valley Road, will hold an open casting call from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 28 for models to be photographed for an upcoming ad campaign. The Shops' news release says the center is looking for a diverse range of men, women and children (though the folks in this Noterra Web site picture are kind of milquetoast) and even some "retired couples," (which seems like code for sexy senior citizens).
No money is being offered, but aspiring models can use the experience as a career stepping-stone.
From the release:
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