Category: News

Tall tales at the Big O

By now you’ve heard of the Police pursuit that ended in a scary crash at 59th and Folsom, right in front of Corti Brothers, on Saturday. Well, we hadn’t yet when we found ouselves at Big O (just across the street) just after lunchtime, just a few hours after the incident had taken place. (Link below, but wait for it, trust me.) The manager reported to me that the suspect had tried to run, and had been taken down and taken from the scene in an ambulance. Later, I overheard the same manager saying that it had taken several officers to subdue and handcuff the suspect, that he had been “a pretty big dude.” Police tape cordoned off the entire intersection of 59th and Folsom–clearly, some bigtime shit had gone down.

Not being satisfied with one source, I chatted up one of the shop guys while he rolled my repaired tire out to my car. According to this young man, the suspect had flashed a gun, and when cornered, had fired into his own car, killing his passengers, before being gunned down by officers and “taken away in a body bag.” How did he know this? His boss had gone down there, don’t you know, and asked around.
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Crime Capital

OK, are we all just going to pretend that the Bee didn’t scare our pants off yesterday with this “biggest crime increase in the state” business? (Also, is the local media just going to pretend our own SinghCity didn’t predict it?) Some staggering details–the crime increase was more than 4 times higher than the national average, for example. I also think this quote from the police chief is weird

“What I’m drawing from that, is that the answer is something beyond the Police Department. Clearly, as a community, we need to think about this.”

Clearly, when we are victims of violent crime, we need to look inside and ask ourselves whether we were asking for it. Or perhaps Najera is slyly pitching the blame upward to Fargo? Or asking us to patrol our borders to keep out trained thugs from Chico? Not sure. But clearly we need to think about it. And clearly we should as a community start that thought process in the comment box at The Sac Rag. (Note: If your comment includes the word “immigrant” it will probably be deleted, unless you are an immigrant and you’re saying you’d feel safer in Jalisco.)

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.

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!

Bunch of quacks

Ok, how long was I supposed to go without mentioning this eBay auction for the X-ray of the duck? Seriously, 92 bids so far for $4599.99?

Regrettably, IBRRC reports the duck succumbed to its injuries and passed away quickly, quietly, and peacefully after the x-rays were taken, and not from the alien bursting through the duck’s chest in classic gory Hollywood style.

Some could take the use of the word “regrettably” out of context here, but I digress. And I love how they mention the existence of crop circles to help with the story.

“Cordelia’s a hot bed of alien activity,” Holcomb explained. “We’ve seen the crop circles, so it stands to reason we’d see an alien face staring out of a duck.”

Now that’s just the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. “Reason” and “alien face staring out of a duck” should never be used in the same area code.

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.

A home’s best friend?

KCRA.com recently reported that home invasions are on the rise in Sacramento.

In the last 28 days, the Sacramento region has experienced at least nine home invasion robberies. In each case, the homeowners were tied up, bound or held at gunpoint.

Yikes. What can we do to protect ourselves, you ask? Well, Sacramento Police Department Sgt. Terrell Marshall recommends installing a home security system and to never blindly answering a knock at your door. Makes sense to me. However, his first recommendation is what led me to write today.

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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?