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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I'm not sure what landlords renting their homes to people with kids has to do with this. These kids were driving their family golf cart. They were operating completely within the law.
It is the law that I find completely baffling. People as young a fourteen years old, without a driver's license, are allowed to operate motor vehicles (golf carts are motor vehicles) on the public roads. They are expected to obey the rules of the road which they have never been required to learn. How exactly can they ticket a fourteen year old kid without a license for blowing a stop sign or driving on the wrong side of the road? In order to get a license, you need to study and learn the driving laws. You are then tested on those laws. How can we hold kids who have never been required to learn the law responsible for obeying them?
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I've seen renters in the neighborhood allowing their very young grandchildren to drive the carts alone, as if it were a toy, with no seat belts and no speed limiter on the electric carts. It's a disaster waiting to happen.