Author: SinghCity

If a car crashes into a building in Sacramento, does anybody hear?

I’ve spent the better part of my career here at Sac Rag HQ trying to bring awareness to one of our most pressing local issues.  Arena? Blah.  Crime? Who cares!

Nay, Ragfolk.  It’s the attraction of our motor vehicles to the front doors of our local buildings.  It’s epidemic.  And, even when I haven’t been making my weekly announcements about the most recent crash, many of you have been sending me your stories and tips of the most recent building-car encounter.  We’re becoming aware and I will say this, Sacramento: good on ya. You’ve been vigilant on my behalf, and I really think we’re in a car careening down a road towards a building called “Something Special”.  Hit the gas, because here’s another one…

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Good Days of Our Lives

It is always the children who are affected the most.

Good Day Sacramento has been in quite the transition this summer. First, it was the move of their set over to CBS13’s locale. Fortunately, the transition went off relatively smooth. One wonders however, the stress this put on Good Days’ own 40+ year old child, Mark S. Allen.

As the CoolOne brought to you some days ago, MSA was recently pulled over at the airport by the County cops, on the suspicion of being drunk. This morning, the “on-scene” reporter at the Cal Expo plant sale intimated that there were “special plants in the back” for MSA that the reporter could not identify on the air. Not to mention the fact that other Good Day personalities are exposing themselves in public…what’s going on over there? Are these desperate cries for help?

While it wouldn’t surprise anyone if MSA was in fact drunk or had some kind of problem with narcotics (perhaps he’s ODing on teeth bleach), could his turning to the bottle be a symptom of more than just a man in his 40s who still shops at Pacific Sunwear in a version of Peter Pan Syndrome?

I submit to you, dear reader, that there is something more going on.
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Sickening

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We at the Sac Rag love to complain. It’s why we be, it’s who we be. In fact, I’ve even started complaining about how much we complain.

I have to say though, that there are some issues that just are disconcerting. This morning’s top three local stories on CBS13’s website all involve shootings in the last 24 hours in our town. I’m not complaining about CBS13 here, but the fact that such crimes are so common – and yet it’s seems easy to disregard this stuff as long as it doesn’t happen in our own communities.

It really is sickening.

Sacramento’s flying carpet

When passengers “deplane” (could this be the only word in the English language coined by flight attendants?), their first sense of what their destination is like comes from what they see in the airport. Many cities go to great lengths to convey to travellers the essence of their locales through the architecture and art that is displayed in the terminals.

Sac International is no different in that regard. As part of their expansion/renovation, they’ve had displayed a “flying carpet” by artist Seyed Alavi:

This project consists of an aerial view of the Sacramento River that is woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge connecting the terminal to the parking garage. This image represents approximately 50 miles of the Sacramento River starting just outside of Colusa, California and ending about 6 miles south of Chico.

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Reaching welkin heights

A few months ago, I brought to you the story of Josephine Kao, who won the Central Valley Spelling Bee and was on her way to the nationals in Washington, DC.

The national competition is going on as we speak. Josephine, Sacramento’s sole/soul representative, reached round 4, where she was eliminated for misspelling the word welkin.

Regardless, congrats Josephine, for a j-o-b well done!

Oops, we did it again

Our second one in 3 days:

A bizarre hit and run accident in Fair Oaks after a car slams into a home and the driver bolts.

It happened on Biplane Way near Navigation Way. And while Sheriff’s deputies have not been able to find the driver, they have found a rifle with a scope and ammunition in the car.

CBS13 considers this a “bizarre” one. I consider this to be media in denial.

Open house

An anonymous tip from Sac Rag reader Plumwin brings us another vehicle-building crash – this one ending tragically – just days after the last one:

GALT, Calif. — A big rig driver died Thursday morning after plowing his truck into a house just off Highway 99, the California Highway Patrol said.

With all the talk about how housing developments have been built in floodprone areas around Sacramento, I wonder if we’ve also built buildings where cars seem to want to go? Just a thought.

I also have to question this line in the report of this story by KCRA:

Nobody was injured at the house, which has a for sale sign in the front yard.

A For Sale sign, you say? And you couldn’t tell us the listing price of the house, or who the realtor was? What kind of shoddy reporting is that?