Re: Becareful
We spent 15 years in St Thomas in the vacation business. It's amazing how people take leave of their good safety sense when on vacation (or retired??) in "paradise". The only serious crime problems we ever heard about in St. Thomas were from folks who were walking in bad areas at night, flashed wallets/money at open air markets, etc.. All the stuff you wouldn't do back home in Detroit.
The Villages is a huge magnet to those less fortunate and provides an easy target for breakins, murder and mayhem as history has shown. As the community grows, and the economy goes further south, the problems will increase.
This also goes to a later thread on forged duplicate I.D.'s. If TV is serious about security, and maybe WE need to get more so, perhaps they should be scanning our TV cards and require 2nd I.D. at the gates instead of the rec centers. I guess this could present a problem in some areas (Sumter?) where the roads are public, but it could provide a deterrent and a record of who is coming and going even if they can't legally be prevented from passing through the gate.
If a "bad guy" had to ID themselves and get photographed when they entered, they'd find another place to go. Should this matter be addressed with the VCDD's?
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