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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
You are technically and semantically correct. Now, would you like to discuss how THE LAW classifies the severity of "crimes", or does anyone think murder is the same as driving a golf cart at 20.1 mph??? You cannot just lump all "crimes" together and label the perpetrators as "criminals" with all the connotations that entails.
Alternatively, just taking driving and parking alone, 99% of Villagers are "criminals".
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Murder isn't happening here in this community every day. Speeders are. It's MUCH more likely (and profitable to the state) that a police officer would catch someone in the act of a traffic violation, than it is that they'd catch someone committing a murderer - in any given week. They don't have jurisdiction on the MMPs but they do on the roads that run throughout The Villages. And it's not just speeding golf carts. It's cars that run stop signs, not even with the pretense of slowing down. It's pedestrians that walk right into the street without looking both ways FIRST and then getting angry when a car almost runs them over because the car was ALREADY there in motion.
It's people on e-bikes that ride AGAINST traffic at speeds up to and sometimes even exceeding 30mph.
It's golf cart drivers who are on their phone on Del Mar, with their 10-year-old grandkid on their lap in the driver's seat, not paying any attention to the fact that Junior is about to steer over the curb and flip the whole cart over (I witnessed that - the woman in the passenger seat had to yell at them both to avoid what might've resulted in the death of their grandchild).
Golf cart drivers going over 19.8mph is not the problem. The sense of entitlement among people who do it - the attitude that the rules apply to thee, not me, is the problem. And as long as the rules are not enforced, it'll just get worse.