[rkimball]

Living in Sumter County I know nothing about how the Marion County Sheriffs office works. I will tell you that answers to questions I have posed the Sumter Sheriff have been answered incorrectly. Most involve golf carts.

Today’s Daily Sun has an article about Coconuts Internet Café and their shutting down by the Sumter County Sheriff. My wife went to Coconuts last spring and bought one of their telephone cards and this card not only provided free long distance calling but time on a computer to recoup her money. The same as McDonalds Monopoly game.

The total time she received this card allowed her to make long distance calls all summer long at no additional charge. We estimated that the value of that card using a figure of $.10 a minute was over $3,600. It even work for calls to Hawaii.

So when compared to the sweeps at McDonald or Burger King they lose hands down we will take Coconuts any time.

[borisj]

Originally Posted by rkimball

Living in Sumter County I know nothing about how the Marion County Sheriffs office works. I will tell you that answers to questions I have posed the Sumter Sheriff have been answered incorrectly. Most involve golf carts.

Today’s Daily Sun has an article about Coconuts Internet Café and their shutting down by the Sumter County Sheriff. My wife went to Coconuts last spring and bought one of their telephone cards and this card not only provided free long distance calling but time on a computer to recoup her money. The same as McDonalds Monopoly game.

The total time she received this card allowed her to make long distance calls all summer long at no additional charge. We estimated that the value of that card using a figure of $.10 a minute was over $3,600. It even work for calls to Hawaii.



So when compared to the sweeps at McDonald or Burger King they lose hands down we will take Coconuts any time.

Or as PT Barnum said; " There's a s------ born every minute!

[rkimball]

What does that mean? The Sheriffs down here don't know the law. Half make it up as they go along. Just ask them questions the next time they have government day some questions about the rules governing golf carts and then look up here.

http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/ind...316/ch0316.htm

[BogeyBoy]

Originally Posted by rkimball

Living in Sumter County I know nothing about how the Marion County Sheriffs office works. I will tell you that answers to questions I have posed the Sumter Sheriff have been answered incorrectly. Most involve golf carts.

Today’s Daily Sun has an article about Coconuts Internet Café and their shutting down by the Sumter County Sheriff. My wife went to Coconuts last spring and bought one of their telephone cards and this card not only provided free long distance calling but time on a computer to recoup her money. The same as McDonalds Monopoly game.

The total time she received this card allowed her to make long distance calls all summer long at no additional charge. We estimated that the value of that card using a figure of $.10 a minute was over $3,600. It even work for calls to Hawaii.

So when compared to the sweeps at McDonald or Burger King they lose hands down we will take Coconuts any time.

I read the article in the paper and have to admit I know nothing about Coconuts. (I also know nothing about McDonalds Monopoly game.) Maybe someone can educate me. How much do you have to pay to get this card that gets you $3600 worth of phone calls? And then you get time on a computer to recoup your money? What does that mean? How do you recoup your money? And what does this have to do with the sheriff's knowledge?

[pqrstar]

Rkimball,

Could you please be specific about what golf cart laws you feel that the Sumter sheriff is unaware of or is not abiding by?

[rkimball]

i'll give you one. If you have others you should ask the sheriff your self.

According to Sheriff Farmer's public information officer " it is Illegal for a faster golf cart, as long as it doesn't exceed its 19.9 miles per hour, to pass a slower one on public highways. The Lady Lake police Chief, Ed Nathanson already disallowed this back in 2002. There is no such law.

[chuckster]

I'm confused............If I'm "cruising at 19 mph" and someone is sightseeing at 10 mph, you're saying I can't pass (if not governed by double yellow lines) the slower cart. Think you are misinformed on this one...........Please educate me!!

[rkimball]

According to Sheriff Farmer you would break the law if you passed that cruiser. Ask him yourself tommorrow.
http://www.districtgov.org/images/wh...yer%202009.pdf

[pqrstar]

I have read these requlations at
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/ind...316/ch0316.htm
and I can't find any that refer to passing slower golf carts.

Local govermental authorities can add additional restrictions to these Statues, but according to you the Sumter county sheriff and the Lady Lake Police Department have given you conflicting information. These are two different local governmental authorities, so I would think maybe they could possibly have different regulations.

Where in the statues are the passing restrictions addressed?

[EdV]

The basic argument is that if you are driving your golf cart on one of the county roads that has the rightmost lane set up for golf carts with a solid white line and diamonds (like Morse Blvd.), then you cannot cross over the white line and enter the middle part of the road that is for registered vehicles only.

If you do this, even just to pass a slow moving cart that’s in the cart lane, you are technically operating an unregistered motor vehicle on a public road that is not designated for golf carts.

[MarcV]

Does this mean when the maintenance people park there, we are to do what? Wait an hour or so until they decide to park on some other cart path? This happens regularly on Lyndhaven and Belvedere. I guess we (dozens of us) are just lucky there's no sheriff's officer watching us veer into the, shudder, automobile lane to pass the obstruction.

[BogeyBoy]

Originally Posted by EdVinMass

The basic argument is that if you are driving your golf cart on one of the county roads that has the rightmost lane set up for golf carts with a solid white line and diamonds (like Morse Blvd.), then you cannot cross over the white line and enter the middle part of the road that is for registered vehicles only.

If you do this, even just to pass a slow moving cart that’s in the cart lane, you are technically operating an unregistered motor vehicle on a public road that is not designated for golf carts.

So how about when you have to cross those roads, for example to make a left turn?

On county roadways you may operate a golf cart if the county or municipality has designated that road for golf cart use and signs are posted to indicate that such operation is allowed. I'm pretty sure TV falls into that category. I read through the statutes and don't see anything that says there can/must/will be designated areas of the roadways for golf carts. The white lines and golf cart lanes are probably there to give some sense of order to traffic flow. Imagine the chaos that would take place if the major roads didn't have those lanes.

BTW - what happened to the original comment about Coconuts? I'm still waiting to find out what that was all about.

[EdV]

Originally Posted by BogeyBoy

So how about when you have to cross those roads, for example to make a left turn?

Yes, and that's what makes this whole issue so controversial.

[chacam]

Originally Posted by edvinmass

if you do this, even just to pass a slow moving cart that’s in the cart lane, you are technically operating an unregistered motor vehicle on a public road that is not designated for golf carts.

ba lo ney

[EdV]

Wow, what a thoughtful response!