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Old 02-03-2025, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bob47 View Post
Do the math. 140,000 people, each making the mistake once in 4 years, is 35,000 mistakes each year, or 96 mistakes every day.
And yet we don't hear of 96 every day, or 96 every month, or 96 every year, or even 96 in the last four years.

As for the math, 140,000 people did not all arrive last year. We don't even hear about an incident for each of the 4,000 who arrive each year.

Either:
1. There is carnage on our highways that <the paper that shall not be named but is always looking out for things to criticize the Villages over> isn't reporting
OR
2. Not everyone makes the mistake before learning to avoid it. (even my wife and I only made the mistake once for the two of us)
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