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June 2008
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Fix the Light
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Since the kangaroo mice ate the wiring to my headlights, I've only been able to run with my high-beams which are carefully shrouded to not blind oncoming drivers.
 As I answered questions from Minnie, one of our apartment complex's walk-and-talk-to-herself residents (I am the other one) I tried to fit a new high-beam bulb in. Sadly I found the socket in the headlight body worn too badly to anchor the bulb and socket in.
So I folded several feet of aluminum foil, placed it behind the socket, and when I closed the snap-cover on the back of the headlight body, I had solved my problem.
Then I put in new license plate lights, so that I may get pulled over on the way to work, now that law enforcement can clearly see my plates expired in March of 2008. Damn!
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0630_headlite_repair.jpg
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June 2008
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Hot-Wired
Hot Air Balloon
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It certainly appears that this hot air balloon is stuck in the 390,000 volt wires coming in from the Four Corners Power Plant.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0624_hotair_pwrlines.jpg
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June 2008
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Here's Something You Don't See Everyday
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Since I raced motorcycles (in the desert) for twenty years I watch out for them. This one wasn't hard to spot. Good looking lady.
May I take a moment to re-write one of the loud-ass motorcylists' favorite bumper stickers?
"Loud pipes
Save Lives
of Those
Who Shouldn't Ride"
After all, if you can't dodge a school bus, or a cement mixer, or a crew cab long bed Ford F350, or a Prius, or a vehicle ignoring a traffic control sign, without making more noise than an unmuffled copper mine dumptruck, you really shouldn't be out on the streets of the nation's 5th largest city.
Wonder-link to photo only:
none
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June 2008
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Lost Art
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In the 1970s and 1980s it was not at all unusual to see these palm tree trimmers. Now it's such a rare sight, I just had to take a photo. Naturally, there were four guys on the ground watching the one guy do the work. I'm quite used to that kind of workplace.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0624_palm_trimmer_850h.jpg
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June 2008
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Molten Highway Patrol Car
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Shortly before I took this photo, this was a Highway Patrol car with an officer inside it.
I had seen him look like he was shooting at something in the sky, then toss the carbine into the front seat, after which he himself jumped in. Next thing I knew, him and the vehicle were a molten mess.
Am I the only one seeing these things?
Wonder-link to photo only:
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June 2008
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Woodtruck
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How much wood,
would a woodtruck truck,
If a wood truck,
could truck wood?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0623_wood_truck.jpg
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June 2008
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The Collector
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The first time I saw this, most-likely genuine Eco-Freak, he had collected the objects you see. I wasn't sure if he found the skateboard, or would eventually ride it. A few days later, I saw him riding the ironing-board-sized wheeled contraption.
Understand that if the Eco-Freaks get their way, (to make certain there will be enough fuel left to power our 'leading' citizens' private jets, helicopters, speedboats and 120" stretch Rolls Royce limos) all of us less-than-ten-million-dollar-aires, will be forced into public transportation (where you meet the nicest felons) or stuffed into Made in Japan battery powered death traps (that a 20th Century Soapbox-Derby car could easily out-accelerate), or onto red-wheeled raft-sized skateboards.
But riding the skateboards would be okay, because we will also be forced to live within three miles of where we are employed.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0623_thecollector_7st.jpg
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June 2008
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Loser
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Like so many other Arizona drivers have tried, this van attempted to out-corner me in the infamous Daisy Mountain west to the I-17 southbound turn.  He was horribly defeated, as they all have been. Plus, knowing vans, he probably had to take an hour to straighten out the interior after he almost tipped it over. (I was watching in my rearview mirror.)
But, once there was a straight line to drive, using the boss's gas, he accelerated hard and easily passed my P.O.S. front-wheel drive Hyundai. Oh my gosh!
Men are so stupid, aren't we?
Wonder-link to photo only:
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June 2008
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Dig, Man?
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While other places suffer typhoons, floods, earthquakes and wild fires, Arizona
sticks with it's own unique problems ... gophers the size of Chevrolet Colbalts.
Here are several of their mounds in an area they recently discovered and then dug up.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0618_gopher_mounds.jpg
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June 2008
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Odd Body
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While patrolling the other night, I noticed something odd out of the corner of my eye, and swinging my camera around, without a flash, I snapped this photo.
All I can think is that I caught an elf or a fairy or an E.T. sleeping.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0604_oddcreature.jpg
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June 2008
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D.P.S.
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Seems I cannot drive to my midnight shift anymore without seeing someone pulled over for a moving violation or an accident.
Being a racist, from the looks of the vehicle, it was driven by an alien from Mexico. Law Enforcement has just got to realize that these people from Mexico have zero driver's training and can't read traffic signs written in English. I'm not even sure that they can tell the shapes of the Yield, Stop and Speed limit signs apart from one another.
And, as my Mexican-American friend, Alex Tellez, told me decades ago, "In Mexico, the law is you must drive drunk."
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_06_17_dps_whtcar_7st.jpg
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June 2008
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D o p e
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The first time I saw this graffiti (the gang bangers call it tagging) I thought it was something about 'dopes'. But I've seen it in many places, indicating that it is the tag (name) of some gang.
Probably some illegal-alien gang, who illiterate in Spanish, don't have the slightest idea what the word means 'en Inglés'.
After all they are probably proud to be members of the "Dope" gang.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0601_dope_gaspump.jpg
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June 2008
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Relief
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 Here we see the yellow "Bob Cat" type bulldozer relieving itself on the desert floor. Most people don't know that since the Roswell UFO Crash in the late 1940s, much roadside machinery has become part living being and part machine. This is due to the fact that our government has been reverse-engineering alien technology.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0617_bulldozer_relief.jpg
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June 2008
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Here We Go Again
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I believe that summer has started for real in Phoenix. Not only because it's 105F degrees,
but that this photo was taken at 8:30PM at night, after sundown.
Wonder-link to photo only:
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June 2008
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We Begin Again
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Here we go again. When the construction speed limit is posted on I-17 at 45 MPH, and there is no DPS State Police car visible, even though they could save gas money by driving slower, almost no one does. Double-trailered tractor trailers included.  I really have to watch my back driving only 52 MPH with vehicles flying up behind me at 65 to 75 MPH.
Why don't the other drivers slow down? The real reason? They are afraid of upsetting the drivers behind them, so like the mythical Lemmings they follow each other (in a perfect world) to traffic court.
Being a security officer, my whole existence is geared to upsetting people. If only they didn't take away our .45 caliber revolvers.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0615_45speedlimit_i17.jpg
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June 2008
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Hidden Balloon
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When I took this picture you could barely pick out the hot-air balloon (powered by the breath of politicians) against the mountain. The camera seems to have better eyesight than I do.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0607_balloon_mtn.jpg
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June 2008
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Deadly Serpent
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Here is Mr. Wonderful, again risking his life for his viewers, by handling the extremely venomous yellow stripped boa constrictor rattlesnake cobra green mamba cotton mouth snake.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0610_kingsnake_baby_hand.jpg
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June 2008
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Roach Cafe
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Well, the battle goes on, whether its over gasoline, the presidency or food.
 Shortly after becoming aroused by watching a couple of cockroaches make rear-to-rear love, something clicked in my mind and I went back and looked at the column I had earlier almost laid my hand on.
Wonder-link to photo only:
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June 2008
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Red & Blue
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9:00pm on a Tuesday evening, time to drop the mail off at the Post Office, and right across the street I see three City of Phoenix police cars with a vehicle pulled over. This is not an unusual scene for this neighborhood that is settled mainly by Illegal Aliens.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0603_3phxcops_gway_usps.jpg
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June 2008
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Bob the Cat
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One of the major joys of my job, other than I have no boss on site (although I am taped both visually and audibly), and I work alone, (and I could very really die alone out here in the sticks after being attacked by some wife-swapping husband-fool), is that I see wildlife I would never, ever see. For a large part of my workday, my desk is the dashboard of my patrol vehicle.
Wonder-link to photo only:
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June 2008
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Gasoline Explosion
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June 6, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Cave Creek and Bell Roads.
Gasoline keeps jumping its previous high retail price as speculators, most likely the same morons who blew up and then exploded the housing bubble, continue to bid up the cost of a barrel (44 gallons) of crude oil.
Wonder who's going to come crying to the Taxpayers for relief when this Ponzi Scheme collapses?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0606_gasoline_chevron_4099.jpg
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June 2008
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Repo Man
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Back in May we were returning from the southern edge of the City of Peoria, Arizona using the east west street of Thunderbird Avenue. Traffic was very slow in my lane and I was stuck behind a white pick-up truck. As I pulled around it, I noticed the primer gray 1970s Chevrolet in front of it chugging down the road. Only until the pair passed me at the I-17 and T-Bird intersection, did I comprehend the Chebby was being repossessed by a dude without a tow truck or flat bed.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0503_repoman_chebby.jpg
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June 2008
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Road Bed
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I've always noticed on my patrols that quite a few birds seem to have been run over in the middle of the street. I'd assumed this was because resident's were driving far faster than the posted speedlimits and surprising our feathered friends.
As I was patrolling the other night I put this quail between my tires and drove over him only to find him unmoved on my return trip. I pulled up next to him, opened my door and fearing disease, I poked him with the end of my long, thick and manly six-D-celled Maglight Flashlight, at which point he woke up and flew off. They fall asleep in the middle of the road and then they get run over right in the middle of their REM period. Any wonder they are called bird brains? Will they be voting for Nader or Obama?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0604_quail_ironhorse.jpg
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June 2008
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"Hey!"
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Every morning on the way south on Interstate 17 I encounter two  of these tractor trailers carrying hay north. I have no idea what the hell eats that much, unless it is going to feed the bitch Roseanne, whom radio commercials reveal to be crapping out in Las Vegas.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0506_hay_tractortrailer.jpg
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June 2008
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Nursing
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A major perk of my job is my communion with the wildlife of Arizona. Like someone who collects the 50 State Quarters, I'm waiting to add to my sightings, one of a bear, a wolf, and a gila monster.
Here you can see four javelinas, with the youngest one nursing on his mother's teat.
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0603_4_javelinas_nrsg.jpg
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June 2008
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Diversity
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Here's the wonderful "diversity" the Left speaks of. Notice the large "WIC" stencilled on the door indicating that this bodego accepts Arizona State 'Women, Infants and Children' food coupons, i.e., food stamps. So much for those who say Illegal Aliens do not receive state benefits, eh?
The last time an evil Caucasian was in this store he wore a Phoenix Police officer's uniform. It's too bad the Jerry Colangelo, Governor Napolitano and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon don't live nearby, (like I do) and shop here (like I don't) since they enjoy the company of Illegal Aliens so much. Who knows, it could be the Hispanic version of an AJ's?
Wonder-link to photo only:
http://angelfire.com/az/nativebob/images5/08_0530_greenway_grocstore.jpg
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