July 24, 2002
So there I was, surfing the 'Net, minding my own business. I hear a police siren nearby -- very nearby. I look across the living room, through the bedroom, and out the front window just in time to see the light-bars from six cruisers rush by.
My curiosity piqued, I rush outside to question the landlord, who was watching it all from the front porch -- "What the fuck was that?" He gives me the dirt on what he saw -- some black kids in an old Olds went screaming up the street with eight cop cars in hot pursuit. I must've missed the first two.
Several of the neighbors were speculating on what the kids had done to get that many police from multiple departments after them.
Watching the news today, it turns out that three of them broke into a house and threatened the owner. When the owner alerted police, the kids took off. As they passed through various boroughs they acquired more pursuit, and the chase ended in Hazelwood (the neighborhood adjacent to Greenfield) with police from West Homestead, Homestead, Munhall and Pittsburgh apprehending the perpetrators.
And here I'd thought it was just a stolen car.
