:BigApplause::BigApplause::BigApplause Even on this site,somebody here's something from someone repeats here.Reminds me of when in grade school and the teacher would whisper to a student a story and have them do the same to the next student til it went around the whole class.: By that time in was a different story.

You are spot on to have concerns ; ditto for your comment on the various dynamics going on all at once.

We noticed the same thing with regard to the huge amounts of "help" and not to be mean or politically incorrect, but most looked like they did not have documentation........who knows if background checks are done on them.

Many probably are just trying to earn their wages, but others could be jealous as to what they perceive as the lifestyle of the rich and whatever....living the life they only dream about. It could be tempting and again, those homes are so easy to break into.

Up here at least we know our pool guys and our landscapers; we all know their families; we've seen them grow up from babyhood........it's a lot different in Florida. Ditto for other workmen. We know our carpenters and plumbers and their families for 40 plus years. People all go to church together and their kids all go to school together.

It's a trifle different with these migrant workers....or transients as you called them. Coming from afar, the place looks a lot different than the picture of safety imagined.........meaning it would not be that difficult to harm an elder if someone wanted to.

If true that the "crime scene" was a self inflicted wound, it's good news and bad news (for the loved ones).

TV may be a friendly enclave of villages, but it still NOT a small town where everyone knows each other.

That said, we did notice a lot of those "neighborhood watch cars" out and about.........but I never saw them at dusk or dawn when someone could be lurking around.....hoodie or not.

Someone who worked for a landscaper...... or pool person.....they just walked right into our lanai to put chemicals in. If someone had their sliders open, anything could happen. Ditto for the guys who power wash the screens on the lanai and birdcage........on the inside, as well as the outside. They could gain easy entry..........as could the landscapers.....who were all around the golf course adjoining the property, as well as the owner's crew.
Very early in the a.m. I might add. Plus, the newspaper guy came very early at or before dawn.

Anyway, glad the story had a conclusion that was NOT "harm done by a stranger."

A good example of racial profiling.

Getting back to the original subject.
 

Just to keep our smiles intact...in summary, there was no home invasion.

It is another beautiful day in The Villages.







Disclaimer. I don't work for them or know them, but would like to. (know them)

You will probably get a visit to their yacht if you keep this up graciegirl! :thumbup:

So this begs the question how many have alarm systems in their home?

Maybe a door to door survey is in order..............

I just have a shotgun and a chihuahua.

I like that combo.

Me too!

I used to have a Rottie, this little guy is a better watchdog

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3360/3...e6b5a4d5_z.jpg

and these

https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/im...D-SNFd1-7E7czE

It was just an honest obvious observance we made.

Let's say they weren't the boy next door who grows up to own a landscaping business in a small town.

Everyone deserves the right to exist and work; our own grandparents were immigrants to this country..........quite poor if truth be told.

What I meant was that anyone could get into those homes....and that there were so many transient types around......it was very obvious to someone from away.

In Vermont we get our yearly seasonal Jamaican apple pickers.
Nice guys who come into town with the owner of the apple orchard.

From one who does their family genealogy (a huge tree of immigrants) I can assure you I meant no racial profiling.....just an observance of what my husband would call the "haves and the have nots"....perhaps a temptation to commit a crime.........not necessarily that they would. They are no doubt too exhausted to even want to commit a crime......but one never knows, does one?

Come on. Read the newspapers. Watch the news.

Don't worry about that guy. He likes to make folks feel uncomfortable.

Thanks for the back-up, Mark. The Buggy One tends to usually doubt what I say...:cry:

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ANOTHER REMINDER. THERE WAS NO HOME INVASION.

Stop with the arming up already.