Burbank police had a wild chase last night, after a robbery at a Burbank liquor store lead officers on a chase all the way to Santa Clarita, as the officers dodged bottles thrown at them by one of the suspected robbers. Burbank blogger Dan Evans happened to stop by the store that was robbed, Burbank Reese Market, at 1701 W. Burbank Blvd., because his wife was suffering from a case of the munchies. He relates the following depressing exchange between the robbery victim who worked at the store and a TV reporter, after the clerk told the reporter that he got punched during the robbery.

"But I've seen worse," [the clerk] said. "I'm from Cambodia. I escaped from far worse people."

Whoa.

"You mean Pol Pot?" I asked.

He nodded.

"Who?" asked the reporter.

"The dictator," I said. "The Khmer Rouge. You know?"

"No," said the reporter.

"Yeah," said the clerk, lifting up his shirt to show a constellation of long-ago scarred burn marks. "They did this. Those kids, they nothing."

Dan Evans is suitably depressed about the reporter's ignorantly breezing past the Cambodian Genocide, but who knows, maybe the TV reporter was just annoyed at the spontaneous intrustion on her interview by one Dan Evans? I don't know, I wasn't there. Having seen a TV reporter a couple months ago mention the non-existent "city of Sherman Oaks," I can definitely relate to Dan's frustration at the "Duh" moment.

Anyway, back on the trail of these alleged robbers, police followed them for 43 minutes. Burbank police reports that one of their men in blue spotted the suspects just a few minutes after the robbery and started the chase, which went up to Santa Clarita. As we reported in the Daily News story:

Live footage from KCAL9 showed a man leaning out of a driver's side rear window, throwing full beverage bottles at pursuing officers. The [suspects'] SUV nearly struck a white car during the chase.

The suspects parked their vehicle on 14 Freeway near the Via Princessa offramp and surrendered to police.

Burbank police report today that the suspects were a 23-year-old from Los Angeles, who was booked on robbery and felony evading arrest, an 18-year-old from Alhambra, who was booked on robbery, and a 17-year-old from Los Angeles, who was arrested for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. All three of the suspects are suspected gang members, according to Burbank PD.