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graciegirl 12-29-2015 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by biker1 (Post 1164266)
What is a bit odd about the story is that it is focused on street legal golf carts. The two people they interviewed had street legal golf carts. However, the vast majority of the golf carts in The Villages are not street legal. They also make reference to the place "crawling with low speed electric vehicles" and then proceeded to show scenes with mostly gas carts.



They didn't do their homework. They had some pre conceived ideas about golf carts and I bet they had them too about older people. That is why the woman who had sex on the square caused such a media frenzy.


We seniors are very much still alive and pretty darn happy, and I think that came across in this piece.

tomwed 12-29-2015 12:59 PM

There many golf cart safty videos on youtube. click here
There is one that's a compilation of accidents. I couldn't watch is for more than 10 seconds. It's that upsetting. I think an awareness campaign would be the most effective plan.

Taltarzac725 12-29-2015 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 1164313)
There many golf cart safty videos on youtube. click here
There is one that's a compilation of accidents. I couldn't watch is for more than 10 seconds. It's that upsetting. I think an awareness campaign would be the most effective plan.

Like those shop videos in high school? Those sometimes got really gross. They do make these sometimes so over-the-top that they become more comedic than effective like some of the anti- tobacco ads I have seen of late from the State of Florida.

Taltarzac725 12-29-2015 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1164291)
They didn't do their homework. They had some pre conceived ideas about golf carts and I bet they had them too about older people. That is why the woman who had sex on the square caused such a media frenzy.


We seniors are very much still alive and pretty darn happy, and I think that came across in this piece.

I liked this piece more than a lot of the other national news on the Villages.

tomwed 12-29-2015 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725;116***2
Like those shop videos in high school? Those sometimes got really gross. They do make these sometimes so over-the-top that they become more comedic than effective like some of the anti- tobacco ads I have seen of late from the State of Florida.

The youtube that's hard to watch is the one that has recordings of accidents. They are not staged.


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