As this country and our culture degrades further you will see real violence enter our lives as have nots, criminals and illegal migrants come looking for some from the haves. We can't escape the politically induced crime wave that is eating the country alive forever. Two old timers engaged in mutual combat is not the kind of violence that endangers this community.

Since we moved here (in 2015) I know of 2 murder suicides, one near Rio Ponderosa, near where we live.

I may not agree with the predominant politics around here but I do believe in the truth (especially when backed up with reliable statistics).

1) The Villages, crime wise, is WAY safer than the national average on all kinds of crime.

2) There are always bad apples in every barrel.

3) Ask any public-facing employee (anything from a clerk to a fast food cashier) who the most troublesome, most entitled, hardest to please people and they'll tell you that it's OUR generation (I'm 60). Too many of us were raised spoiled by The Greatest Generation (because they didn't want us reliving their horrors) and, while that's an easy accusation to make, it DOES tend to come true too often. Most of us aren't like that - but ask them who stands out in their minds and it's usually some entitled old person.

So I have no trouble in believing that there are a lot of low-level spats going on. Heck, seeing the arguments in the nursing home I worked at as a teenager right up to the one my mom was in starting last year - the evidence is there.

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it happens everywere,look around...."don't let the old man in "

"Grumpy old..." syndrome is a real thing. Like everything else that gets depleted as we age, serotonin (the feel good hormone) gets depleted too. Combined with chronic pain, lack of sleep, loss of spouse, it can get harder and harder to maintain a level, happy head space. It's easy to judge angry older people, but I like to imagine why they are that way. I'm sure it's hard living for them. I'll try my best not to cause unnecessary grump fest!

The link to the other source please

Not all but some people when they reach a certain age do not play well with others.
And this does happen everywhere, and it's not just confined to men.

Why do you think Xanex if free for old folks?

Perhaps "soylent green" is actually not a bad fate for angry old peeps.

After all, T V has (or maybe its been quashed) a large medical research facility planned near Middleton. What better group to test on than over 55's. Pick your "vacation" theme and enjoy the journey lol.

Grumpy folks never learned to play well with others in the kindergarten sandbox.

So, the truth is, you know how to get your "other" news here in TV. The incident mentioned, while tragic, is not surprising. Further, it is certainly not common.

The fact the story did not appear in the Sun is also not surprising. The publisher of the Sun is free (free press) to print or not print that story. The "other" paper relishes in offering up stories about anything negative about TV, especially crime. Most of the crime stories they run wouldn't even get a passing glance in a newspaper in (pick any big city). Every newspaper has editorial/publisher bias.

The incident does not change my perception of safety in The Villages one little bit. Of all the places I have lived, TV is, by far, the safest and most crime free.

I doubt it. Best case scenario, if it went down the way it was reported, is he gets convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He'll do time.

It wasn't even his car that was hit!! Sad, sad situation all the way around

It's unrealistic to believe that within a group of people of more than 120,00 people that everything would be a wonderland of no disagreements, drunks and an all encompassing attitude of all is just perfect. Doesn't exist, but this is still a wonderful place to spend the last years of your life. It's not for everyone, but it is for a multitude of us.

You’re right, criminals buy homes and move, as well as go on vacation. Agree with your list of problematic people, except wouldn’t include “unwed mothers” or “uneducated people.” Nothing wrong with single mothers and not everyone has a college degree, no shame in either!

After all of that…….I still don’t give a damn that I didn’t read about it in the Sun.