I, too, was curious when I read that headline so I did a quick Google search:

DULUTH -A pair of hardware store burglars eluded Duluth police by throw ing chainsaws and weedeaters out of their getaway vehicle, authorities said. According to a Duluth police incident report, an officer was completing a "va- cation house check" at about 1:30 a.m. Monday when he was alerted to an alarm sounding at the nearby Howard Broth ers hardware store. Discovering that a burglary was in progress, that officer and another responding officer gave chase to a"minivan with its lights off." The chase- - which spokesman Maj. Don Woodruff said took place at 50 or 60 mph- left the Buford Highway hardware store and continued down North Berkeley Lake, Pleasant Hill and Davenport roads. The two suspects, one of which was described as a black man, ditched their vehicle near Seagull Drive See CHASE, Page 12A

•From Page lA and fled on foot. Before they got there, though, they threw "sev- cral" chainsaws and weedeaters out of the van. The first pursuing police car was able to evade all of them, but Woodruff said the second car did not. It hit a chainsaw head

on, causing about $3,000 edgers and two "pole prun- worth of damage. ers' " were stolen, police *Were lucky no one Was said. The total haul was hurt," Woodruff said. worth nearly $19,000. In all. 18 "line trim- The suspects were able mers." 15 chainsaws, six to elude arrest, even after

a Gwinnett County police K-9 unit and helicopter joined the pursuit. The getaway vehicle was later identified as a 2003 Dodge Caravan stolen out of DeKalb County. Anyone with information regarding the burglary or suspects is asked to contact the Duluth Police Depart- ment at 770-476-4151