Buffalo story in today's Orlando Sentinel

[Russ_Boston]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-buffalo1508jul15,0,7425264.story

[chelsea24]

Awww Russ, I'm all teary-eyed again. Don't get me started on the Buffalo. I'm still angry about those idiot people that couldn't keep from trying to touch them. I miss the Buffalo much more than I'd ever miss those people. But, hope springs eternal. I'm going to write the developer again. I understand why they did it, I just will never understand the mentality of the people that feel they have to touch wild animals or wade in ponds that are known to have gators and snakes. :edit: :edit: :edit:

[Taltarzac]

Thanks for that link Russ Boston. Sad development about the buffalo though. The lawyers won against common sense. It seems to me that if you do something stupid around wild animals, you should be the one paying for it if you get hurt.

[Best Mom]

Thanks Russ,
The comments are ineresting too.

[Floridagal]

Thanks for the web site. I wish the Buffalo would come back. My grandkids loved looking at them.

[Barefoot]

Some of the comments were hilarious. Send the Yankees up north and keep the buffalo! It seems TV can't escape the rumour of old farts with STDs. 1rnfl

[Muncle]

Some of the comments were hilarious. Send the Yankees up north and keep the buffalo! It seems TV can't escape the rumour of old farts with STDs. 1rnfl


Bare,
Two things struck me. First, this is the Orlando Slantinel. You are never going to find an article that is pro-Villages. This was about as even handed as they come. And Second, reading comments like these and similar newspaper sites where "readers???" have free reign makes me so thankful for TOTV. Even in out bitterest fights/discussions, we are infinitely more civil than most of those animals.

[Barefoot]

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Bare, Two things struck me. First, this is the Orlando Slantinel. You are never going to find an article that is pro-Villages. This was about as even handed as they come. And Second, reading comments like these and similar newspaper sites where "readers???" have free reign makes me so thankful for TOTV. Even in out bitterest fights/discussions, we are infinitely more civil than most of those animals.

Muncle I agree. I am always shocked when I read negative comments in newspapers articles (and comments in reviews of the book, Leisureville) toward people who live in The Villages. Is it jealousy? I don't know. But some comments are downright contemptuous, and usually untrue.

[Taltarzac]

:dontknow:
Muncle I agree. I am always shocked when I read negative comments in newspapers articles (and comments in reviews of the book, Leisureville) toward people who live in The Villages. Is it jealousy? I don't know. But some comments are downright contemptuous, and usually untrue.


You have to take these comments on blogs and stuff like that with a whole cupboard of salt. People can be extremely nasty on places where they are by in large anonymous and never expect to be face-to-face with others.

I have found the comments on the Orlando Sentinel blog to be often virulent in nature no matter what the subject is.

[Helene2008]

Russ...the same exact article and picture ran in the Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale this morning.

[Best Mom]

Helene,
I bet Ft. Lauderdale doesn't have the same comments. The Villages are close to Orlando and there seems to be a great deal of dislike for this development.

Do people even know what The Villages are? I have friends in South Florida who have never heard of this place.
Mc

[Helene2008]

Mc,
Your right....there were only a couple of comments and they were positive ones. I read the comments in the Orlando paper....big difference.

Actually, yes there are several friends of mine that have bought in the Villages and I am like a walking billboard for the place, we love it so much, can't wait to move and become a permanent Villager. :bigthumbsup:

[smalldog]

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Smalldog Sez as much as it pains me that the bison have been removed, to even discuss it seems to me to be beating a dead horse ::) I would like to share with you that yesterday at the former pasture at Buena Vista and Stillwater Trail, there seemed to be surveyors at work in the pasture ??? to what purpose I don't know, but it comes to me that the real reason for their removal might not be pending litigation's :dontknow: