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Old 09-20-2023, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
And here we go again.

Every morning I turn on the news and there is a shooting somewhere in Central Florida. Everyday someone is injured by a gun or knife, someone is scammed out of their life savings, a woman is accosted and a 15 year old gets into an accident without a license. Some low-life kills a cop in Daytona and the morons on the jury come back with "manslaughter".

But, by all means, let's spend precious police resources trying to catch a golf cart going 20.1 MPH. OMG, the humanity, the humanity . And why??? For "safety"? 20.1 is very dangerous and 19.9 is fine? Now the guy who had his cart set to 35 is a whole different story, but that is pretty unusual----22 or 23 is what I generally see these days. Or is because anyone who gets passed is irate? Or because everyone who slogs along at 14 MPH thinks everyone should do as they do?

I get passed every day, my cart can occasionally get to 21 downhill but struggles at 18.5 uphill. So what? They come up from behind me, pass me, and then they are gone. No big deal, why should I care? (Again, not referring to the cart outliers at something ridiculous like 35)
So why are there those on TOTV that get their undies in a bunch just because someone's cart is faster? Why do people continually post this nonsense of "we're retired, what's the hurry"? None of know what their hurry is, maybe they're ill or have a potty emergency. It's not for us to decide, and the same goes for cars as well. (I direct that to the left lane Louie's that want to impose their speed on everyone else).
I agree with you about "left lane Louies". And we agree that Golf Carts doing 35 MPH is WAY out of bounds ( and may be some kind of psychological "need for speed" disorder). I barely see where any disagreement exists.
......I do see from the HIGHLY enlarged letters that SOMETHING (?) about Police presence is where the disagreement occurs. Since several TOTV posters talked about people going 35 MPH and one even BRAGGED about it, it is OBVIOUS that WAY excessive speeding is going on. And I concur that it may be thought of as "small potatoes" as compared with say a murder in Orlando.
........However, in one of my posts, I stated that Golf Cart speeding here in TV Land can be thought of like the famous "broken window" theory put out about 30 years ago by a famous Police Chief. Where he stated that small crimes need to be stopped just like big crimes because when small crimes are condoned, then it leads society toward bigger crimes. He is known to be correct about this and applied it to NY and LA and wrote a book (I think)
I merely wanted to suggest the parallel between broken windows in a big city and the Police in The Village turning their backs on the seemingly small crimes of Golf Cart speeding.
........We have an older and slower-moving population here in TV Land. So, when they are walking or biking, they are vulnerable to being hit by the large number of Golf Carts. Then IF you add in a large amount of Golf Cart drivers speeding at 35 MPH. And if you add alcohol inebriation to the mix, you have a toxic brew. And we see pictures in the paper of Golf Carts that wrecked into trees many feet away from the road. So, we know that it happens.
..........The Villages residents want to believe that they have a high degree of safety here and that the Police are protecting them. They certainly DESERVE that !!!!!!!!!!!