‘I Know It’s Dumb’: Arizona Corvette Driver Raced 120 MPH on I-10, Then Asked to Keep the Car He Needs for Work

Most roadside interviews involve some back-and-forth. According to Arizona’s Highway Patrol, this one was settled in four words.

Shortly after midnight on June 13, an Arizona state trooper arrested the driver of a silver Chevrolet Corvette on Interstate 10 in Phoenix after following the car at more than 120 mph in a 65-mph zone, the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Highway Patrol division said in a June 26 post. While being arrested, the driver asked whether he could keep the car, because he needed it for work.

The trooper then asked the follow-up question the situation more or less wrote for him: If you knew you needed the car for work, why were you racing it?…

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