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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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Aside from the obvious Orwellian implications of that suggestion, let's focus on the part in bold:
The powers that be did not want to get involved in which lawn ornaments are acceptable and which aren't, which is a matter of taste, so they banned them all. People like to think a little white cross is acceptable---what if someone displayed it upside down because
their religion is a bit darker? What if the bird was a large pink flamingo instead of a tasteful brass heron? How about a statue of their favorite political figure? The problem is that there is no universal agreement as to what constitutes "the low-level "ticky tacky" variety".
As I see it, the main problem is the vast differences in deed restrictions between different Villages, and even different units within a village. Some standardization would have been helpful.