Exactly one week after we had our last car crash into a building, we were probably overdue for another one, don’t you think?
A Sacramento family got a rude and violent jolt out of bed overnight when a stolen car being chased by deputies slammed into their Oak Park home.
Rude and violent? Since when? This is Sacramento, and that’s just how we roll (our cars into someone else’s living room).
Is there anything more cute, than seeing as I did today, two girls, maybe four or five years old, playing with candy cigarettes and pretending to light each others’ smokes, while walking with their mothers in the halls of a hospital ?
I don’t think so.
Negligent Mamas, RIGHT AWN!
Fifteen days since our last report, we hammered out another one :
A argument inside a moving car escalated to a hammer fight and ended with the car htting [sic] a power pole in South Sacramento…Officers say the accident was caused by an arguing couple. Police say tempers got so heated inside the car one of the people pulled out a hammer to use as a weapon.
Granted, this is not about a car crashing into a building, but I’m still impressed. Poles are harder to hit when someone is striking you on the temple with a hammer. Check out the video at CBS13, the pole actually didn’t fair too badly!
I’m sure you’ll hear back from me again within 2 or so weeks with another episode.
Sacramento’s other major daily online newsource (aside from the Sac Rag, of course) published a useful tip for Mother’s Day. The Sac Bee warns us today about subjecting our moms to spam:
According to McAfee SiteAdvisor, a unit of antivirus company McAfee Inc., at least 10 sites that offer greeting cards, silly poems or other light-hearted material can flood the sender’s inbox with spam. For instance, signing up at one joke Web site resulted in more than 1,000 spammy e-mails a week for McAfee’s testers.
Of the 10 sites that McAfee warns against, five are high-volume spammers and five others install unwanted software like spyware or viruses, Keats said.
A list of those sites can be found at http://blog.siteadvisor.com.
If you want to show Mom how much you care, McAfee recommends Hallmark.com, 123greetings.com, WorldWildlife.org and AmericanGreetings.com as sites that offer quality cards without a side order of spam.
A nice recommendation for those of us who care to send the very least for Mother’s Day.
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, “For Car Thieves, the West is Best” :
For 2005 the ten metropolitan statistical areas with the highest vehicle theft rates are:
1. Modesto, CA
2. Las Vegas/Paradise, NV
3. Stockton, CA
4. Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, AZ
5. Visalia/Porterville, CA
6. Seattle/Tacoma/Bellevue, WA
7. Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, CA
8. San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos, CA
9. Fresno, CA
10. Yakima, WA
Read it and weep, San Diego and Fresno. You got nothing on us when it comes to car thefts. Now, while Sacramento ranked #7 in the country, we’re actually #4 among California cities, which means we moved up one position on the list compared to last year.
We done good Sacramento. Give yourselves a hand. We’ll catch those Stockton suckaz yet.
The fair citizens of Sacramento are not without their heros. God knows we certainly have our villains. But, what makes a hero special?
With raised fist, it’s those people who have the burning desire to fan the flames of justice and goodwill that we try to salute each week, here at Right Awn! Friday. And Sacramento, this week, one of our heros has returned…
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Here we go again, Sacramento. We’ve been up to our old tricks:
Several people were injured when a car smashed into a credit union office in Sacramento this afternoon.
The incident happened at the Golden 1 Credit Union on College Town Drive near US-50 and Howe Avenue. According to the Sacramento Police Officer Tod Barnes, the driver of the car, an 85-year-old man mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal when backing out of a parking spot and his Volvo lurched forward into the outside ATM vestibule. The car struck a woman waiting to use the ATM.
That’s right Sacto. We just crashed another building! But wait a minute…
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This week, I’m going there, Sacramento. Here at the Sac Rag, we’ve yet to broach this topic, but it had to be said, especially tonight.
Find out what there is, after the jumpshot…
Continue reading “Right Awn! Friday: One game at a time”
It seems that it’s not just Sac Rag readers who are having difficulty coming to terms with the loss of Paul and Jen.
I think we were due for another one. It’s been how many days now, Sacramento? Ah, eighteen…
But this one is different. No buildings were harmed in the crash of this car:
CARMICHAEL, Calif. — A violent sneeze caught a cabbie off guard on Monday, causing him to lose control and veer his vehicle into a car wash.
The resulting wreck severed a mater [sic] main, spewing water, mud and rock over a wide area at the Splash & Dash Car Wash at 6505 Fair Oaks Blvd.
That’s right: a violent sneeze. His cab got sneeze-jacked. Let’s not be TOO quick to judge though.
Now apparently, the driver recently returned from India. And if you’ve ever been a passenger in a taxi in India, you’ll be amazed at what those drivers can do. They could drive a truck through traffic like threading a needle in a warm stick of butter. That had to be one HELL of a sneeze.
In other news, Splash & Dash Car Wash at 6505 Fair Oaks Blvd. is offering free car washes while supplies last.
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