For five hours this Sunday, some 10 miles of normally car-crowded Los Angeles streets will be closed to vehicular traffic and turned into a massive block party for cyclists, pedestrians, joggers, even stilt-walkers.

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The name originated in Philadelphia, to describe heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicular traffic, which occurred the day after Thanksgiving, when many folks took off as an extended holiday and used it to shop.

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All of this despite a curfew banning all vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

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Arrested after a police chase, Lohr is facing accusations of felony vehicular eluding and three traffic offenses -- reckless driving, speeding and failing to obey a traffic control devise, the sheriff's office said.

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