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Originally Posted by Topgun 1776
Yesterday, a golf club was stolen off a golf cart outside Beef O'Bradys in Colony. There was a witness and Sheriff's deputies responded. The thief will be charged with burglary (as the cart is considered to similar to a car). The other individual will be charged as an accomplice as he drove the car. Deputies stated this happens all the time, but people think they lost their clubs or someone mistakenly grabbed their clubs. More times than not, they are being stolen!!!
We all enjoy going anywhere we want with our clubs on our carts. Maybe it's time to re-think having them on our carts except when playing golf.
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Been going on for as long as I can remember, seems to kind of "cycle", a rash of such "grab and goes" and then not as much for awhile. I remember years ago being on a tread mill upstairs at the health club in Spanish Springs. Happen to just be gazing out at the parking lot behind the theater, and noticed a car pull up, two people jump out, one opened trunk while other removed set of clubs from parked cart. I called 911 but thought they would be long gone, so had the color, made model and "most" of the license plate number (while asking myself why a criminal would leave a license plate on the car they use for theft ? But anyway, they did. I watched them drive away long before the police could arrive (I thought !) but.... the car only moved to another area of the theater lot and repeated the SAME ACT... by then the police arrived and caught them "in the act" as they say. For years some people have used "deterrents", like the steel cables some use to secure their bicycles. None of these "deterrents", like alarms that go off when clubs touched, and the cables, are theft PROOF... but if criminals see a cable that has to be cut, or an alarm to deal with, they will simply move to an easier and quicker "target", so it "could" save you. Many people do not want to return their clubs to their home and THEN meet friends to eat, or they want to make a quick stop at a grocery or drug store on the way home from golf ! It's always a gamble, thieves are everywhere, including the Villages ! Inhuman perhaps, but effective, might be a deterrent that delivers a considerable electric SHOCK !