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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I agree. I almost always agree with you. I agree with why you want a petition...But I don't think it would WORK.
I remember when are kids were little and we vacationed in Miami. There was always some mom yelling "Jeffrey, Get outa the wadda" over and over.
She never waded in and dragged him out as far as I knew. My kids got out.
I was a dragger.
If you are gonna tell people not to do something, you are gonna have to make it stick. How is the recreation department going to do that? What consequences or what penalty can be given? I can't think of any.
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Originally Posted by Grandfinch
At my age and physical condition, I would feel very intimidated doing what you say here. I suspect you would witness seat saver rage immediately. Unfortunately, we do need a rule and it must be enforced for thebenifit of those of us that limp into the squares only to find all open seats roped off.
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This is to answer a few very legitimate questions raised about this issue.
1. During square performances, The Villages Entertainment Division controls the venue. While they control the venue they may establish policies for the venue, so long as their policies are not arbitrary and apply to everyone equally. If they establish policies, then those policies may be enforced by their privately contracted security employees as nearly every public performance does, or more importantly by the applicable sheriff's office. If someone attempts to resist the sheriff's office or the private security, they may be ejected and/or banned. If they resist vehemently enough, they may be arrested and jailed.
2. I'm sure there would, in the beginning, be incidents of seat saver rage by those who want to continue the banned practice. If the sheriff's office or private security are there to enforce the policy then that rage is more likely to be controlled. There absolutely would be some incident that would get out of hand, and if a violator resists the directives of the sheriff's office or private security, then that could result in ejection, banning, arrest, and incarceration.
It absolutely will happen, but when the public realizes that the policy is going to be enforced, and that consequences for violating the policy could be serious, it would only take one or maybe two incidents and the problem would no longer exist.
3. Some are saying that the saving of seats is absolutely not a problem, but I disagree. We see it mentioned in TOTV very often. Some of you don't perceive it as a problem because there is no policy, thus no one says anything to those persons who save the seats. They just walk away from the inconsiderate practice because they have no basis on which to complain. There is a problem or we wouldn't see it listed here so often.