2 December 2005

I guess it was the week of car chases. While my partner and I and some friends enjoyed some ice skating at the National Sculpture, apparently there was a high-speed chase -- at rush hour -- from Tyson's Corner, around the Beltway, to Silver Spring. Police were chasing four suspected shoplifters. The scofflaws apparently got off the Beltway at our exit...sped down Colesville Road...and crashed at the end of our street. Three of them jumped out of the car, one was shot (not seriously hurt). All 3 apprehended. The other (a woman) was picked up this morning in a neighboring county. We were wondering what all the commotion was when we returned home around 11:15p. There was a TON of traffic on our street (strange at that late hour) and according to our neighborhood listserv, there were a bunch of helicopters flying around. Crazy.