Author: RonTopofIt

RonTopofIt is a complex personality, as are most of the small breed of modern day renaissance millionaires. He wishes more people were like him and yet believes that it takes all kinds. You've met RonTopofIt many times, you just don't remember him.

Weekend Update: Missing Persons

I wanted to follow up on a few posts we’ve made here regarding the missing person cases of Christie Wilson & Geneva Brewer.

This morning’s homepage on News10.net (while second to Christie, again, and probably not even up for long) updates us on the Geneva Brewer case. Turns out that just being missing isn’t enough anymore to warrant a search party or even a search, like, at all.

Sacramento County Sheriff’s investigators said their initial investigation turned up no evidence of foul play and they do not consider Brewer an at-risk missing person. However, her family believes that her disapperance (sic – which should just be changed to “news10”) is enough evidence to show that something is very wrong.

So let me get this straight. The only difference between the disappearance of these two women is that one liked to gamble (security footage showing her leaving with the now murder suspect)? Because both families consider their loved one missing and are asking for help.
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Sacramento Loves a Line

As we’ve noted here in the past, Sacramento loves anything new. People find no trouble freeing up some time, grabbing a lawn chair, and hopping in line to check out something fresh. Well I caught a story recently on KCRA that I really need your help with. Apparently over in Orangevale there was something to get in line for.

As part of Thursday’s grand opening for the 99 Cents Only store, the first nine customers got an iPod Nano for just 99 cents.

Now stay with me here as this is where your help comes in. The first nine customers, right? Meaning that, say, 10 to 15 people might show up and hope some of the lucky first niners will pull a hammy or something and have to remove themselves from contention, right? Or did I miss something in the fine print? Because if you watch Suzanne Phan‘s video report you’ll find that folks came to play…the day before! With camping gear in tow. Now if only the Kings showed this much heart.

Life imitating art in the 916

There is a scene in “Airplane” when Kramer is trying to make his way through the airport and is being hounded by various religious zealots to the point that he starts punching and kicking them one by one…I’m sure you know the one. Well one of the zealots comes at him with the line “Jews for Jesus?” which results in a swift beat down.

As I was making my morning commute I couldn’t help but think of this scene when I noticed a huge bus in the parking lot of Safeway on Arden near Watt Avenue. I had to pull over and grab a photo. “Jews for Jesus” written on the side and back. Whiskey tango foxtrot is going on here? Details are sketchy, but I did find mention of it here (reader’s note: this link goes to the Athiest Alliance Web Center, you know, not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

If anyone has any information on this bus and its business in Sacramento, please let us know!

UPDATE: SinghCity went to work and delivered the goods with the link to the Web site and their business in the River CIty. Well done, brother. Cause you know, “Jesus spoke with a Jewish accent and so do we. After you hear the Liberated Wailing Wall, you may not like gefilte fish, but you will know more about the Jewish roots of our faith and have a deeper understanding of God’s Word.” I couldn’t get that at the atheist site, I’ll tell you that.

Did you know?

Found this great Sacramento site today (remember Geocities?) that details many of Sacramento’s claims to fame. While it hasn’t been updated it quite some time, you life long Sacramentans will enjoy strolling down memory lane with Ian and his HTML 101 listings of such nuggets like:

By the News & Review’s count, the Sacramento area has hosted 15% of the country’s serial killers, a high rate for the U.S.’s 20th-largest metropolitan area. (Caveat: the SNR counts 9 serial killers between 1971 and 1992, and three more since then, but adds in non-Sacto killers like Juan Corona, Leonard Lake, and Cary Stayner.)

or

In August 2002, Time magazine declared Sacramento the most diverse city in the nation

Please take the time to review these fun facts and feel free to report back here with your thoughts.

Nothing’s Shocking

So a 20 year old man was “found dead behind a Sacramento home Friday morning after apparently being electrocuted by downed power lines.” Pretty crazy, huh? Crazy that in this day and age people still would go near a downed power line? No, what’s really crazy about this story is the following wonderful example of Sacramentocana (I don’t use this non-word nearly enough) And I quote:

“It’s really kind of a shock to us. When we give folks directions they usually follow them and stay safe,” Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Steve Turner said.

Sacramento Public Libraries…”Check” Them Out

I know, I know, very punny. But now that I have your attention I wanted to remind you of the many wonderful resources available to you at any of the 27 branches of the Sacramento Public Library system. Who knew, right? I’m sure most of you, but with the advent of the home computer and more importantly the Internet, public libraries have sort of drifted off my radar. Well, Mrs. T has been spending a lot of time there lately and really turned me on to the many free features the library has to offer.

I’ve mostly been to the Arden-Arcade branch. If you haven’t been, you’d be surprised by the number of computers they offer with free internet access or the wide selection of CD’s and DVD’s you can check out. Each time I’ve visited the vibe has been rather mellow in spite of the large numbers of people there. Plus, right now you have unique opportunity to see a Princess Diana collection. I only say that last part with my tongue partially in my cheek.

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Smart drivers 1, jackhole drivers 0

Stalled Vehicle

Sacramento freeways lend themselves to aggravation. There’s something about the process of merging in the River City that just doesn’t work the way it should. Too many lanes to merge? Shoulders that are too large and inviting for “cheaters”? Stupid people that simply don’t understand the concept? I’m sure we’d all agree it is a combination of the three. Well, my friends, yesterday’s commute home was one where justice was served. I was making my way onto Business 80 (Capital City Freeway still?) as I do every weekday evening via the J/I street onramp. Anyone that makes this move knows that people just LOVE to try and cheat their way through usually by driving on the side of the road for as long as they can ultimately cutting someone off and being forced to stop traffic and merge (force) their way in. It’s traffic, remember, that’s a lot of cars going the same way at the same time. Short story long, I witnessed this dude in a BMW behind me weaving in and out of traffic making every effort to advance his ride. He was receiving gestures from other drivers and basically increasing the level of stress in an already tense moment. Well, as is rare in this day and age, our smooth operator was rewarded for his behavior with a blown radiator and was forced to pull over and request assistance from the driver’s he had moments ago irritated. Booya.

Cruiser Chick(s) revealed!

Much the same way the now infamous photo of Sasquatch was engrained in our minds as youngsters, I couldn’t believe my eyes this afternoon when I came across a gaggle of cruiser chicks on Alhambra. As promised, I quickly reached for my low resolution camera phone to capture this moment for eternity. As you can imagine this illusion departed as fast as it arrived. But not before my Sprint LG went to work thus pulling back the curtain on one of the most puzzling mysteries in Sacramento history. Cruiser chick, I’ve outted you!