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To: PatiBob who wrote (154473)	11/13/2007 11:59:40 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I wish I had a flying car today. I was on my way to my seamstresses house, having some curtains made for a client and a chair covered in a more up to date style. Anyhow, she lives 45 minutes away, which in Atlanta talk, as well as Houston, I'm sure, means a long sit on a parking lot interstate.. Well today was worse than ever and I couldn't figure it out because it was only 2:30!...when I finally came to the cause of the stoppage, it was on the other side of the interstate..there must have been 25 police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, tow trucks and all the news channels out in force.. It seems four guys robbed a store and had a high speed chase on the internet, flipping over and throwing some out and killing one instantly while another ran away..anyhow..pretty exciting, but I could have waited for the 11:00 news for that one.. Police Chase Ends on I-75, One Dead Four suspects running from police flipped their vehicle on Interstate 75 at the South Loop in Marietta Tuesday afternoon, leaving one person dead and another trapped in the car. As emergency crews moved in, traffic on the interstate backed up for miles. The chase began in Canton after a robbery. The chase started when an officer spotted the getaway vehicle speeding. Holly Springs and Cherokee County Sheriff's Deputies joined the chase when they determined the vehicle was involved in a robbery at a check cashing store. A sudden attempt to exit at the 120 South Loop caused the vehicle to flip and slide on its top for several hundred feet. One of four occupants of the suspect vehicle was thrown onto the median where he was pronounced dead on the scene. Two suspects were transported to local hospitals, including the driver, who had to be extricated from the Chevy Impala before being taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta. A fourth suspect took off on foot, but was tracked down and brought back to the accident scene. After the accident, two women pulled up to the scene in a blue pickup truck and were arrested as accomplices in the robbery. The chase started in Canton and went south on Interstate 575. "The Cherokee County Sheriff's Deputies were at Highway 92 and 575, and deployed stop sticks which the car hit," said Cherokee County Sheriff's Sgt. Jay Baker. "We also deployed stop sticks at Bells Ferry Road and 575 -- so we believe this car was traveling at over 100 miles an hour with a flat tire on 75, where he eventually wrecked here in Marietta." Inside the car, police said they found two guns, cash they believed to be from the robbery and a video tape, believed to be a surveillance tape they removed from the check cashing store. "Oh, I'll tell you, at this time of day, on Interstate 75 southbound, this could have been a lot worse," Baker said. "Luckily, only the suspects were injured." Police said they believe the two women who were arrested, were being used to drive the pickup truck as a switch-vehicle. But that attempt to switch vehicles was apparently foiled by the Canton police officer who started the chase. 11alive.com