[Yung Dum]

Never mind the rules or the language. What about the safety of the child? A golf cart is not a toy.

[the square]

Originally Posted by travelguy

calll the police and follow the golf carters the police arrive. it is about time we take back control of our community and do not allow outsiders to hold us hostage. enough. i am mad as hell and i am not going to take it anymore!

You are so right. These morons think they can walk all over us for a week or so and then go home. I know I worked hard to deserve a community like this and I'm not letting anyone or their kids ruin it. There must be others that feel the same way.

[VT2TV]

Originally Posted by the square

You are so right. These morons think they can walk all over us for a week or so and then go home. I know I worked hard to deserve a community like this and I'm not letting anyone or their kids ruin it. There must be others that feel the same way.

Me!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by the square

You are so right. These morons think they can walk all over us for a week or so and then go home. I know I worked hard to deserve a community like this and I'm not letting anyone or their kids ruin it. There must be others that feel the same way.

I do.

[getdul981]

Me too.

[tommy steam]

I have seen this situation many times in TVs . Let's hope no kid gets injured by a non thinking parent.

[maybe]

I know this thread is as much about rudeness as it is the age of the cart driver, but my how times have changed on when to drive what. My dad owned a Ford tractor dealership when I was a kid. He let us drive the farm tractors around the parking lot at a young age, initially with an adult ridng along, but then when old enough, alone. With my siblings and cousins we sometimes had 7 or 8 kids driving tractors around in an oval at a time. After a couple more years the final step was to be allowed to drive a new tractor in the convoy of new tractors from the train station to the garage, 3 miles on a two lane major state highway. Finally I was allowed to do that. I was 7 years old.

Yep, my Dad would be arrested today for that. I confess I was a bit stricter with my kids!

[DDoug]

To the OP This is Florida's friendliest home town not. The dumbest home town. Golf cars aren't real cars they are toys for kids of stupid people. JMO

[ret369]

Three days ago I was driving on Bachman and turned onto Dorst when, in the opposite direction was a cart with the grandfather in the front passenger seat holding a 3 year old boy in his lap. The driver was a 5 year old girl. I stopped my car and blocked his way and told him to exchange places immediately or I was calling the police. Needless to say he did not like being told what to do. The kids thought it was funny and laughed the entire time. When I picked up my phone he decided to change places. He told me to go back where I came from which is down the street. He said he was a villager and Oh what a surprise - he identified himself as a retired teacher. So it is not always the outsiders who are breaking the rules or are idiots. I wonder if he would let the little girl his car?

[ssmith]

I know this comes up often but another point is that....having all of the cart access is a priviledge and not a right....it would be horrid if there was a bad accident.....someone sued and then .....no longer golf carts allowed off of golf courses so there is a vested interest by all to be diligent and do your part when you see this type of thing happening.....not just for the safety of the child/children but also to maintain the freedom that is there (Ie Remember the buffalo)

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by ret369

Three days ago I was driving on Bachman and turned onto Dorst when, in the opposite direction was a cart with the grandfather in the front passenger seat holding a 3 year old boy in his lap. The driver was a 5 year old girl. I stopped my car and blocked his way and told him to exchange places immediately or I was calling the police. Needless to say he did not like being told what to do. The kids thought it was funny and laughed the entire time. When I picked up my phone he decided to change places. He told me to go back where I came from which is down the street. He said he was a villager and Oh what a surprise - he identified himself as a retired teacher. So it is not always the outsiders who are breaking the rules or are idiots. I wonder if he would let the little girl his car?

You can't fix stupid... Yet another reason for golf carts to be registered and have license plates.

[VT2TV]

Originally Posted by CFrance

You can't fix stupid... Yet another reason for golf carts to be registered and have license plates.

I totally agree!!!!! But IMO, we also need someone who has the authority to address this-whether it is the police or security or someone who can fine or ticket these idiots. I 100% support ID's for golf carts, but if you have regular Villagers trying to correct attitudes, you could have problems. But the more this behavior is allowed to continue, the worse it will become.

[jblum315]

I don't know what the law is about golf carts, but a child ticketed for driving a car will lose his/her right to get a license at 16.

[travelguy]

Originally Posted by jblum315

I don't know what the law is about golf carts, but a child ticketed for driving a car will lose his/her right to get a license at 16.

just wondering how many times has this happened here in TV? somehow i doubt that this has been enforced.

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by jblum315

I don't know what the law is about golf carts, but a child ticketed for driving a car will lose his/her right to get a license at 16.

I don't think people outside TV are really aware of the difference in usage of golf carts here--in city streets and in car/truck traffic rather than on golf course turf that is soft, instead of on golf courses only where the owners/operators of the course prohibit kids under a certain age from driving a cart on their course.

At our previous club in another state, kids were prohibited from driving a cart on the course (or anywhere at the club) unless they were over 16 with a drivers' license. I think that's the way it should be here, but I doubt anybody will do it before some kids or others get killed or horribly maimed/dismembered/disabled in a horrible wreck.