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Old 07-07-2012, 07:25 AM
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I agree with all of the previous posters. You have to drive defensively when zooming around in your golf cart. This is a senior community and with diminished vision, hearing and reaction times as a result of age mixed in with meds and alcohol, and you have a potential problem. A friend of mine who has lived in TV for 9 years told me of an incident where a person was stuck inside a golf cart tunnel by driving their car in there a number of years ago. Then you have all the wanna-be NASCAR drivers who soup up their non-street-legal golfcarts to do well in excess of 20 miles per hour that always seem to be running late, sometimes passing on blind curves with limited sight-line. You see it all, and have to drive defensively. Glad that you and all nearby were not harmed by someone's stupidity!!
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