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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
OK, I'll be glad to think as you so nicely put it. I do not know what the ABSOLUTE cutting-edge capabilities of drones are. I can imagine a time (maybe now, maybe in the future) that there are helium-filled drones or just large helium-filled balloons with cameras and several retaining wires - that basically act as a portable tall tower with say 10 cameras pointing in 360 degrees of view. This would be a more practical use of helium balloons than iust trailing ads for beer brands. Observing crime and encouraging safety by just the mere presence of such equipment. you could have physical towers with cameras. I was just "spitballing" out suggestions. Anyone is free to make better suggestions than me, but knocking down my suggestions without having one of their own is basically juvenile ! Corporate psychologists agree with the method of GROUP "spitballing" suggestions (and NEVER dismissing ANY suggestion OUTRIGHT as unacceptable. Then later they arrive at the best SOLUTION to a problem. Obviously, we are in the "spitballing" phase about how to prevent a neighborhood from gradually deteriorating. Many, many residents that I have talked to that have lived in The Villages for a long time (like 10 years) will invariably say that there has been a deterioration in friendliness and safety in the last 3 years or so.
Personally, I do not care about white crosses or such "ticky-tacky stuff. If volunteer residents are driving around the streets with clipboards........I don't care .......it is ALL good as long as they are concentrating on a level of problems ABOVE the low-level "ticky tacky" variety. That would probably be a duplication of effort because that is what (I assume) the Community Service people are doing.
And since I just thought of another suggestion.........the Community Service people could have 360 degree cameras mounted on their vehicles that send video signals back to trained monitors - because the drivers of the Community Service vehicles at concentrating on driving and looking forward. And the vireo could be recorded if needed in a legal case.
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Bingo!
Any golf-car ride in any village will probably reveal several dozen "infractions" of the hair-splitting variety. One eight-block stretch that we travel routinely reveals two statues of the Buddha, about ten of those white crosses, a couple of those BVM statues (as my brother calls them "Our Lady of the Bathtub" shrines), a more-or-less permanent dog statue doing his business against a tree, etc. etc. They've been there for years. Any attempt to do a wholesale clean-up of minor infractions that may have easily been there before the current owners bought their houses has about as much chance of succeeding as an attack of flatulence in mid-Katrina. I'm pretty sure the powers-that-be know this, and also know very well the amount of time (and money, not just in person-hours but legal fees as well) it would take to even make a dent in those. Such "ticky-tacky" things may offend someone's taste or sense of decorum but they don't negatively impact an entire community, such as a lawn overgrown with weeds, an RV parked in a driveway for weeks on end, windows patched with duct tape, houses with gross amounts of mold on them, houses missing siding for interminable amounts of time, etc.
Go after the big stuff first. Then start fixing the little stuff. Unfortunately the "little stuff" has been allowed to get out of hand by the powers-that-be for years. It will undoubtedly take an equal number of years, probably more, to get things back in compliance.