Worth-A-One-Sided-Story From An Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist? Drunk Driver Damages A Sandwich Shop In Downtown Mesa

Image capture today 19 Oct 2019

AZ Family 3TV/CBS 5 KPHO/KTVK (KPHO Broadcasting Corporation) thought so, when Lindsey Reiser published it with a video two days after it happened last weekend. It might tug your heart strings with 'Mom-and-Pop' and 'their dream' and their 'baby'. . . hang on it's more than that good old fashion American-as-Apple-Pie stuff - and it's way TMI too much information using only ONE SOURCE Jim Bob Strothers
> Perhaps just as likely it could be the case of a Wrong-Way Driver confused by street signage on Main Street here in Downtown Mesa.
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(Opening image above what the site looks like today: No "Open for Business" sign)
Suspected DUI driver plows through downtown Mesa restaurant
Source: AZ Family.com/news
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5)--"The owners of a mom and pop restaurant in downtown Mesa are picking up the pieces after an alleged drunk driver crashed right though their storefront over the weekend.
Note there is a video included in the source

[VIDEO: Mesa restaurant cleans up after alleged DUI driver plows through the storefront]
"They're worried the boarded-up windows makes it look like they're closed for business.Mesa Police said the suspect, 28-year-old Augustin Barron, was still in his car when an officer arrived on scene. They say he tried to run, but was arrested and taken to the hospital. He will be charged with DUI and criminal damage.
(2 Images are featured in Reiser's report /Source: Worth Takeaway restaurant)
THE TAKE-AWAY:
They're worried the boarded-up windows makes it look like they're closed for business. HUH???

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You see where that arrow in the street is pointed?

BLOGGER NOTES: More than any other new business that has opened downtown, The Struthers' sandwich-shop has gotten much more media push than any others.
It appears from the photos supplied to AZ Family that there was damage to the patio that encroaches over the public sidewalks extending to the curb on the north side of Main Street, and that the front windows of the newly-opened expansion at 216 West were shattered.
The original shop at 218 W Main Street looks intact from the images that were supplied to the AZ Family journalist for the story that appeared late last Tuesday.

It may be plausible the alleged DUI driver was unfamiliar with downtown streets, heading east, saw the big white arrow painted on Main Street possibly going the wrong way to make a U-Turn that landed him inadvertently on a trajectory that hit a light pole > take a look at the street scene from today.

216 W Main Street is boarded up.
218 W Main Street is not - either way

There is no 'OPEN FOR BUSINESS' Sign! A week later 
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Here's the story from Jim Bob Strothers point-by-point

1 "We really wanted to invest in our community when it came time to possible open a restaurant," Strothers said.

2 And in February of 2016, their baby, Worth Takeaway, was born.  But Sunday morning around 3:30, Mesa police say a suspected drunk driver plowed through.

3 "[He] came through the patio, hit a light pole, hit the patio, and then they ended up taking out part of the whole storefront," Strothers said.

4 "It's anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 at least right now," Strothers said.

5 In addition to their deductible, they fear there could be a loss of business.

6 "The weather's starting to get nice, we just redid our patio again," Strothers said.

• 6-b And they're gearing up for their biggest event of the year - Jim Bob's Burgers, a pop-up event.
• 6-c Last year on Halloween, they sold 650 burgers. This year, they expanded it to a 2-day event.

HUH? And then they might sell twice as many Jim Bob's Burgers or 1300 in two days. . at the price of $10 for one of Jim Bob's Burgers that's a nice chunk of change - $13,000 bucks.

7 "It's pretty disappointing," he said. 
8  "My wife and I spend about 80-100 hours working in downtown Mesa.
9  "We also run a farmers market in downtown Mesa, so we’re really focused on making sure there's a community being built"

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