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Originally Posted by RedChariot
This is SUPPOSED to be a retirement community! This is not what I envisioned when moving here 11 years ago. The direction this community is taking saddens me.
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Remember Vern Gagne? The professional wrestler from the 1960s or so? Well, even wrestlers retire and suffer the effects of aging. Vern was in a memory-care unit when another resident apparently got on his nerves. Vern body-slammed the guy and killed him. No charges because Vern was apparently suffering from advanced dementia.
We don't know at this point if the incident involved Villagers or not. Nor did the incident take place IN The Villages. But be that as it may there are 150,000 or so of us living here. None of us became angels on the day we retired, nor did we leave our likes, dislikes, prejudices, opinions, behavioral traits, etc. etc. from the place we moved from, when we moved here. We're human. We're all pretty much who we were all our lives, and with 150,000 of us in one spot, more or less, things like this WILL happen.