The concern about rolling a golf cart onto a flatbed is only regarding a situation which currently doesn't exist. There are no apartments IN the town squares themselves. And so it's not likely you'd ever see golf carts parked in them overnight, since businesses shut down at usual business time. The risk of golf cart theft is higher very late at night (or the wee hours of early morning before sun-up) because most residents are asleep.
That said, it's not as common as you might think it could be. Theft happens, but that's true in any environment. People like to think they're immune from the troubles of the world outside the Villages "bubble" but they're not. We just have less of it than in other areas. Also, when it does happen, the main daily newspaper doesn't report it. Unlike most actual real-world local newspapers throughout the country, the Villages Daily News doesn't have a police blotter once a week. The badly-written anti-Villages online newsrag "reports" police reports all day long, but they editorialize them to the point where it's hard to distinguish the actual facts of the report from the spin.
There -was- a rash of golf cart theft a couple years ago but the thieves were caught, after displaying those stolen golf carts for sale up the road. Thieves around here apparently aren't very smart.
|