Operation Wrong Exit

Take a look at this one, by Joe Kovac Jr.: The big-city gal had just spent her Friday night in the Twiggs County jail.

Saturday morning found her out on bail, on the phone with the tow-truck folks who'd hauled her car to wherever they haul cars in, at least in her eyes, this God-knows-where Podunk.

At dusk the evening before, she and three passengers heading east in a late-model Dodge Charger bearing Massachusetts plates, a rental from up Atlanta way, had, for reasons known only to them, pulled off Interstate 16 at a sleepy exit that is home to farmland, a Baptist church and a cemetery, but nary a store or street light.

It is a good bet that their choice of off-ramp had been influenced by the…