[crash]

Originally Posted by hillyridge

A month ago I contacted the Sumter Co. Sheriff's office, which apparently was of no benefit, my street is still plagued with a Wall Street Journal delivery person that drives far in excess of the posted 15mph speed limit. The delivery person is a young female driving a tan 2011 Chevy HHR. I cannot read the license plate because she drives too fast to read it and the license plate has a faded plastic cover which obscures the plate. For all those walking between 6:30 am and 7:00 am in the Village of Caroline be ware of this driver.

Why post this here you think someone on here will rush right over and arrest them?

[tsmall22204]

You complain about her driving too fast. How fast do you drive YOUR golf cart? People in glass houses.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by hillyridge

A month ago I contacted the Sumter Co. Sheriff's office, which apparently was of no benefit, my street is still plagued with a Wall Street Journal delivery person that drives far in excess of the posted 15mph speed limit. The delivery person is a young female driving a tan 2011 Chevy HHR. I cannot read the license plate because she drives too fast to read it and the license plate has a faded plastic cover which obscures the plate. For all those walking between 6:30 am and 7:00 am in the Village of Caroline be ware of this driver.

Imagine you are a deputy sheriff, devoted to the hot pursuit of drug addicts from outside The Villages beating up each other or shoplifting (and I’m grateful for that!), and you get assigned to park on a little street to catch someone delivering papers. Does the punishment fit the crime? Is this where we want our tax dollars to go?

Now, imagine you are a young woman delivering The Wall Street Journal. You have maybe a hundred to deliver in The Villages. You get paid about a nickel per paper, and you provide your own gas. There are about a hundred miles of roads in The Villages, and it is easy to get lost, especially if you don’t live there. Almost no one is walking the streets at 6:30, except for a handful of people who think that at that hour, the center of the street is their lawful sidewalk. Each of those WSJ readers wants to read the paper at dawn with the first cup of coffee and gets mad if it’s not waiting on the driveway in a plastic bag. Some of those subscribers call the main office to complain if the paper isn’t there by seven. Her job is always on the line.

So of course she drives fast. She got up at 3:30 am in Ocala to start delivering papers, and she needs to finish her route and try to get home to feed her little kids before the school bus arrives. Then she will be off to her full-time job, hoping not to be late.

As the old Velvet Underground song says, “Some people go out dancing, and other people have to work.” I’d say, working people should always have the right of way and should be cut a lot of slack. We dancers—that is, those of us who have retired from our work—can step to the side for five seconds and thank them for their service.

Many UPS trucks also speed on residential streets at times. My understanding is that if it takes them ten or twelve hours to make all their deliveries, they don’t get paid overtime for delivering what the computer says should take them eight hours. Talking to a customer for a couple minutes can get drivers into trouble. A traffic jam can really hurt. They’d like to get home by seven, but often it is nine or ten. Cut them some slack and always thank them for their service, to you and to the country.

[Girlcopper]

Correct. Bikes are supposed to follow all rules that apply to vehicles. They dont own the road like they think.

[stan the man]

Originally Posted by thelegges

Ups, FedEx, USPO truck, think 45 in a 30 is the normal. And if they can floor it 5 car length back to beat the already merging carts, they get frogger points

Wrong

[DecaturFargo]

We had this problem in Virginia. We went to the newspaper and spoke to them. They said that they subcontract out the deliveries and were less than interested in doing anything. You can threaten a lawsuit all day long, but what is it you would sue for? Speeding is a job for the police. If she causes an accident, then someone could sue. Idle threats just annoy people.

[MWH&PH]

I live in Hadley and the driver they are talking about is going to kill someone. Order the WSJ and you can see for yourself

[Cranford61]

Originally Posted by photo1902

Perhaps a little more details might help.

Where do you live that the speed limit is 15 mph? I’m assuming you’re in a villa? If so, those roads are not maintained by the county, therefore the sheriffs department would not be able to enforce a speed limit.

I don’t think people living in villas are sophisticated enough to read th the WSJ.

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Call the WSJ, and tell them you want to complain about one of their contractors, if they start to blow you off explain they will be named in the lawsuit.

Ah yes, a lawsuit, the American way.

[bmit16]

Now there is a truly ignorant response by a real stupid person.

[Scudder]

Why not just cancel your subscription to the WSJ? Then you won’t have to worry about it and can concentrate on identifying and turning in owners whose dogs poop where you don’t want them to.

[72lions]

If I filed a lawsuit against all my neighbors exceeding the speed limit on my street I’d be broke. And that’s just cars. While driving the 20 limit I have been passed by both cars and carts. It’s a Villages tradition.

Originally Posted by hillyridge

A month ago I contacted the Sumter Co. Sheriff's office, which apparently was of no benefit, my street is still plagued with a Wall Street Journal delivery person that drives far in excess of the posted 15mph speed limit. The delivery person is a young female driving a tan 2011 Chevy HHR. I cannot read the license plate because she drives too fast to read it and the license plate has a faded plastic cover which obscures the plate. For all those walking between 6:30 am and 7:00 am in the Village of Caroline be ware of this driver.

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[CFrance]

Originally Posted by tsmall22204

You complain about her driving too fast. How fast do you drive YOUR golf cart? People in glass houses.

How do you know OP speeds in his cart?

Originally Posted by crash

Why post this here you think someone on here will rush right over and arrest



I think OP was also trying to warn people to beware of this driver. Plus s/he already contacted police and nothing happened.them?

[thelegges]

Originally Posted by stan the man

Wrong

Not when they set up the digital speed, and you can watch for a whole week exactly how fast they are going.