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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki
Is this a solution looking for a problem?
I believe there are probably some amenities being used by non villagers. I personally don’t experience it, or if I did at a pool or a court, I may not have even known about it.
Comunity watch should have a testable number, if there are a bunch of rowdy kids at your pool, text and CW comes by.
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I drove up Paradise yesterday and saw 4 kids playing basketball, with no adult present at all. The oldest of the four might've been 16, the youngest, possibly 10.
That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Kid gets blocked by the bigger kid or smacked in the face by the ball by mistake, falls, breaks their elbow on the court, and parents sue for medical damages.
Even if the suit gets thrown out, it would mean our community's lawyers getting involved, the rec center having to recover from the reputational damage when it hits the newspapers that we LET it happen (and yes - we absolutely LET it happen by not enforcing our ID rules).
Insurance premium for the community would go up if the parents filed a claim against it.
We shouldn't be borrowing trouble. We should be pro-active in preventing it, whenever practical and possible. There needs to be more recreational employees whose jobs it is to roam between rec centers and check IDs at spots where there isn't any employee already stationed (like pools and shuffleboard courts and archery ranges and dog parks and basketball courts).