[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by NotGolfer

I don't see this as an issue! Where would you have the workers "go"?? I'm thankful for the grounds-keepers and others who make this a beautiful place to live in. My thoughts go to "let's try to pay things forward and not be negative, be kind and not impatient and think we're above others"!!

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

Absolutely right. However, leaving your wallet with cash and credit cards in your shorts in the men's room while swimming is NOT being vigilant and aware of your surroundings, is it?

If you saw the theft in progress, it certainly would be a good thing to hold a gun on the thief while the police were called.

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[goodtimesintv]

It's not so much about using a restroom as it is about criminal activity like this:

This is not the first time this or worse has happened, I am sure.


Man accused of exposing himself in women’s restroom at Laurel Manor pool

November 19, 2015

".....Lorenzo Adan Ramirez of Tavares was picked up Tuesday on a pair of Sumter County warrants charging him with voyeurism.

He allegedly exposed himself to a woman on Monday.

He told law enforcement that he works for a lawn service company and an insect had gotten inside his clothing. He said he entered the women’s restroom by mistake.

A second incident took place Friday, also in the women’s restroom at the Laurel Manor pool.

On Jan. 23, 2012, Ramirez was arrested on a charge of video voyeurism in Lake County. He was sentenced to one year’s probation.

Ramirez was booked at the Lake County Jail and later released after posting $2,000 bond."

(In the online paper. 11/19/2015)

http://www.**************.com/man-ac...el-manor-pool/

[Greg Nelson]

One problem I can see is the lack of the means to keep valuables safe in the locker rooms. I usually lock up my wallet in my golf cart (not very safe) after I've been carded and shown a picture ID. There is no place to leave them inside the locker rooms..

[Chatbrat]

If I don't need my wallet or other sensitive items I don't carry them. Going to the pool or gym all I carry is my ID-

Too bad, the villages does use the palm print ID system that MVP uses-no need to carry anything while in the club.

[Sandtrap328]

Originally Posted by Greg Nelson

One problem I can see is the lack of the means to keep valuables safe in the locker rooms. I usually lock up my wallet in my golf cart (not very safe) after I've been carded and shown a picture ID. There is no place to leave them inside the locker rooms..

Even if the man had kept his wallet next to him at his chair wrapped in a towel, it would have been safe from a prowler in the bathroom. I think that a lawn maintenance worker on the pool deck looking for wallets through towels next to chairs might just raise suspicions - even in The Villages.

Yes, we should all be sorry that the victim lost money but he does bear a good portion of the responsibility. The two thieves should both be locked up for a long time in a hard time jail.

[PennBF]

It's a shame someone lost something because they didn't act responsibility to protect the item. Always told anyone visiting or working in New York City to remember 3 rules: If you see something going down ignore it, if a street does not look safe it probably isn't and avoid it and don't look at people in the eye as it might be viewed as threatening. In this case if you think leaving something in the restroom, shower room, etc and believe it may be at risk it probably is and therefore don't do it. All of this is just "common sense".

[Pietrina1]

Ciao Rubicon, since Natale is masculine, it is Buon, not Buono.
Buon Natale a te e un Felice Anno Nuovo.

[goodtimesintv]

I would never leave a wallet or my clothing in a pool locker-restroom in TV, or anywhere! I put my belongings in a swim bag that I take to the poolside chairs/tables where I can see if somebody would come around rifling thru people's belongings.

Chatbrat was right about using palm/fingerprint readers like MVP does. So that sex offenders, thieves and perverts are not in the bathrooms and showers where people are undressed, wet, shoeless and beyond reach of their phone.

I'm amazed that people refuse to see this as the real problem, not people who are asking for trouble by leaving their wallet in a restroom/shower area where strangers come and go.

The doors should have palm/fingerprint readers for residents and TV/DistrictGov employees. Known, roaming sex offenders and assailants the courts will not lock up should be kept OUT. See Post #48.