Hmmm . . . lawyers selling used...
Hmmm . . . lawyers selling used cars
A scary thought, right?
Nevertheless, Robert Shapiro’s 1983 Mercedes and Johnnie Cochran’s 1985 Cadillac will be among the jalopies on the block at the Kruse International Auction in Auburn, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 5.
Let’s hope this isn’t a sign that the Simpson defense team is having money problems.
Shapiro and Cochran describe their respective cars as being in excellent condition, and who would accuse either of these barristers of exaggerating? Shapiro’s car has just 165,000 miles on the odometer while Cochran’s has traveled a mere 90,000.
Incidentally, we’re trying to confirm a report that one Simpson prosecutor wants to enter the auction so he can sell his 1988 Chevy Nova.
IT’S OFFICIAL--L.A. HAS NEW LANDMARK! A company called Battery Automated Transportation faxed The Times that it will unveil a new electric vehicle at its facility in Burbank, whose location was given as “about 15 minutes from the O.J. Trial.”
GEOMETRY CLASS PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN US: On the Santa Ana Freeway, we spotted this thought for the day on a license plate frame: “As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.”
MOOSE SIGHTING: While Bill and Mary Hawk were braving the wilds of Pasadena recently, they came upon a business that traffics in creatures with large antlers (see photo).
Turns out the owner is Roger Kislingbury, who calls his company Revolting Development.
“I got the name from the old William Bendix show [‘Life of Riley’] where he was always saying, ‘Another revolting development,’ ” explained Kislingbury. “Besides, everyone seems to be some kind of developer in Southern California.”
Kislingbury, who also restores antique gaming devices and furniture, says he uses “moose part” as a generic term for anything old. But he does have a dozen moose heads, counting the one in the local restaurant DeLacey’s Club 41 (he’s a part-owner).
“I just sold one the other day,” he said. “At one point I had about 25. It was getting out of hand.”
And how did he amass such a collection?
“Oh,” he said, “I get calls from people. Like a woman whose husband has just died. She’ll say, ‘Get this thing out of my garage.’ ”
MYSTERY OF THE DAY: KNBC weather guy Fritz Coleman showed footage of several helicopters circling City Hall the other evening during a massive traffic jam and asked if any viewers knew what the aerial show was all about.
“If you got stuck in traffic,” responded the Hollywood Reporter, “blame German director Roland (‘Stargate’) Emmerich, who led thousands of extras and several helicopters through their paces for the shooting of Fox’s ‘Independence Day.’ ”
The Reporter said the scene “involved thousands of citizens waiting for UFOs to come rescue them--but those gosh-darned aliens end up wiping them out instead.”
Some people will take any risk to get out of L.A.
miscelLAny The most heavily traveled interchange in California in 1994 was the East Los Angeles convergence of the Golden State, Santa Monica, Pomona and Hollywood freeways. It carried a daily average of 566,000 creeping drivers, some of whom probably would have preferred being whisked away in a UFO.
