I’ve spent the better part of my career here at the Rag trying to document all of the automobile versus building encounters (follow this chain of posts) in this here town. It’s been a challenge. I’ve missed many, to be sure. It happens all too often and really, it was beginning to become monotonous.
Sacramento, good on ya. You just made life worth living again:
A Winnebago motor home is one tough vehicle.
Just ask Citrus Heights police, who chased a stolen 27-foot model all over town Wednesday morning.
The desperate driver collided with other vehicles and a traffic signal pole as he drove an erratic route on streets that included Greenback Lane, Mariposa Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard.
Cars and helicopters from the California Highway Patrol, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and Sacramento police joined the pursuit.
The driver then steered the motor home through several fences and backyards before taking it over an embankment above the American River at Sunrise Boulevard.
That’s right. This ain’t no story about a car hitting a house. This is a story of a motorized house, hitting a river. Hot damn this will be a fun year!
My father was born in San Francisco, and still — he’ll quickly tell you — holds baseball records set in 1949 when he played for Mission High School in what my family have always called simply, “The City.” When my parents married — at Fremont Presbyterian, back when it was on 34th and J — they decided to settle in Sacramento. My father, by then a professional baseball player in the Red Sox organization, said he “liked the heat.”
The Sac Rag 
