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

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

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.

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

Wrong :blahblahblah:

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.

WSJ Driver
 

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

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

Ah yes, a lawsuit, the American way.

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

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.

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.

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How do you know OP speeds in his cart?

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