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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I still say that trying to police something like that is impossible. Ballsy people win through intimidation. There is NO entertainment department in the world that could stop this attitude. Most of us don't WANT or enjoy confrontation.
What if the entertainment department removed the cushions and the ropes? Some smart aleck with a snootful is going to take on someone and it well may get physical.
If they employed every night one person to remove the ropes and the cushions, every night, 364 days a year, then that has to come out of the money usually used by entertainment and out of the money from the merchants. Somebody has to pay for it. Would it work? Would the cops be called two or three times a week to eject someone? This is a public area.
No one would learn anything from the cops being called. It would just be ugly and not a really good way to handle it.
WHo knows who is carrying and drinking at the same time?
We have so much negative stuff on this forum. We are devaluing our own homes.
I think that The Villages expected people to behave like mature adults here. They try to avoid making a line and daring people to cross it.
Would signs help? If you put up directions, you have to have some teeth to them. I say that the people who think they are above directions and rules will just keep on, keepin' on.
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I would think that this turing into a physical confrontation would be a very rare event. And if it did happen, why should it be the people who are there to enjoy the entertainment. What are the entertainment department staff there for. Isn't it their job to enforce the regulations? If they saw someone smoking wouldn't they say something to that person? You can bet if they saw someone with a cooler they'd be on him in a minute. Couldn't that also turn into a physical confrontation? Why is this any different?
There are also police on the squares. I would think that if one of the entertainment staff had a problem or sensed that there was going to be a problem with someone, they could have an officer there as back up.
Having the entertainment staff handle these situation, to me anyway, is much more preferable than having two of the audience members going at it.