A family member uses the Laurel Manor sports pool a few times a week.
 

She said that the women in her class this morning were talking about an instructor at another pool who had told her class to be on the lookout for strangers and that people should pair up. It seems that the rumor mill is turning very fast from what she heard about an alleged rape as well as gropings at sports pools. These alleged incidents were at different sports pools with the gropings at Laurel Manor and the "rape" and Lake Miona.

As time passes this gets more and more out of hand.
Still would like to know where that groping comment oringinated on this thread.

Click < Will now ignore this thread forever >

Sigh!

It is near the beginning of this thread and the poster is just trying to get at the facts and not spread rumors.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...97&postcount=3

"Was told this afternoon that a women was attacked while showering in the Lake Miona sport pool showers, sometime last week. The lights were turned off and a man grab her and tried to remove her. Her screams brought in 2 swimmers from the pool area...Man ran away...I have made several calls to try and confirm this...but cannot confirm....Can anyone out there confirm this? "

I had not even mentioned this TOTV thread nor its rumors to the family member who went to the Laurel Manor sports pool this morning for an exercise class and had heard rumors about this incident at Lake Miona. My family member does not even read TOTV so this is coming from some other source.

It is good that an instructor at a sports pool is taking proactive steps to prevent crime from happening.

Says nothing about groping.

I have a confession. In 2006 I walked into the men's room at Walt Disney World's Splash Mountain. Having gotten wet on the ride, I walked off and rushed into the nearest rest room to dry off. I mistakenly thought it was the women's room. While I smiled and apologized to the men at the time, if I offended any man who may be reading this, let me again apologize. (Unfortunately, my three friends were following me closely and this made them walk in there with me. I can't speak for them whether or not they were sorry, but I do know we enjoyed the many laughs we had when retelling the story thereafter. :a040:)

The only thing I walk away with from the stories and/or rumors reported in this thread is, anything can happen anywhere ... yes, even in The Villages. Everyone should always be aware of, and cautious in, their surroundings.

End of story (for me).

Some time ago after getting off a plane at Orly Airport in France I headed into the rest room and noticed that a woman was cleaning the urinal next to me. The fact that she was an airport employee did lessen my angst (a little). I like the food but won't use the facilities at France in Epcot.

THANKS MICKEY....
You have a good message while giving me quite a chuckle !!!

Fumar ...:D

Have you ever played the game where you get 10 (or more) people in a line
 

A one paragraph event/story printed, is handed to the first person, the contents are unknown to any in line or the audience.

Then starting with the first person who read it, they whisper what they read to the second, then the second to the third and so on.

The last person in the line to hear the story then gets to tell everybody what they just heard. And then the printed paragraph is read aloud for all to hear.

The results are really astonishing, humorous and entertaining.
Usually there is only a vague resemblance to the correlation.

We all say what we think we heard. Doesn't mean we are wrong intentionally. We are just sometimes.....not correct.

Then consider the event of this thread. Hearsay....interpretation...hearsay of the interpretation and the snow ball rolls merrily along....eh?

btk

:popcorn:Yup.

Some facts though have come to light. The sports pools do need quite a beef up in security. My family member has been the only person at the Laurel Manor sports pools on some Sunday afternoons. She never had her Villages I.D. checked as no one was around to do it.

It sounds like at least the instructors in exercise class, or at least one of them, are trying to do something positive to improve the security at the sports pools.

However, I would have missed this GREAT story from Mick... unfortunately its not worth hanging around tho, I've got much better things to do!! :MOJE_whot::beer3::pepper2:

I vow to not so easily dismiss a new poster in the future. But I'll still keep one eye open:)

Real housewives of the villages
 

With all the drama going on we may get the Bravo channel to create a TV show for us called "the Housewives of The Village"..we would give The housewives of Orange County a run for their money!!!:a040:

Right again BTK:024: