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Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2202974)

Wow, Applebee's is open to 1 AM during the week and 2 on the weekends ? Are they trying to upstage Maragarita Republic as the place for drunken foolishness after midnight?

There are people who work 2nd and 3rd shifts.

Midnight could be lunch or dinner.

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Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2202974)

Wow, Applebee's is open to 1 AM during the week and 2 on the weekends ? Are they trying to upstage Maragarita Republic as the place for drunken foolishness after midnight?

In the real world, people stay out past 9:00...

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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 2203024)

There are people who work 2nd and 3rd shifts.

Midnight could be lunch or dinner.

Or even breakfast, the most important meal of your day. Whenever it starts.

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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI (Post 2202958)

There has been some speculation that he was reaching in his pocket for a cell phone to call the people in the car that he had the altercation with.

There was a mob hit in Boston in the mid 90s.
There was a confrontation between two groups in a restaurant and suddenly one person stood up and began reaching toward his belt.

In one of the great lines in mob history, the gunman said, 'I know he ain't reachin' for no Bible.'

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Originally Posted by Rainger99 (Post 2203991)

Except organized crime is not involved in the Applebee's tragic shooting of someone with no weapon found on him after the fact.

Maybe someone put it in a toilet's rear tank?

Anything new on this???

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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 2212177)

Anything new on this???

I do not see anything later than March 30, 2023 in the news.

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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2196808)

I had tools worth $5,000 dollars stolen 5 years ago. That IS hard to put into the rearview mirror. And it is a KNOWN FACT that murders nationwide have increased in the last 3 years after the Pandemic. The US is NOT protecting its borders (both South and North ) from both criminal and perhaps non-criminal, BUT still illegal immigrants that I and no US citizen have ever gotten to vote about whether it should happen. It is also VERY OBSERVABLE that nationwide there is a vanishing middle-class, which is universally known to INCREASE potential crime. It is true that The Villages IS a UNIQUE wealthy bubble surrounded by have-nots. I am just trying to warn senior residents that future conditions seem poised to tend toward VIOLENCE.
.......Better to be WARNED and something NOT HAPPEN than something HAPPEN that a person is NOT prepared for.
.......As practical proof about the danger from increasing crime that real people here locally feel. I was just down to Rural King and the table of cartridges and shotgun shells was just about empty. 10 years ago it would have been filled. People realize that CRIME locally IS a BIG problem.

As previous poster asked, what is the evidence? Shelves empty of cartridges and shells could be caused by numerous reasons, including when hunting season starts, stockpiling of guns by gun lovers, etc. Most of the crime in TV is opportunistic type crimes like stolen golf carts(with keys in them) and stolen golf equipment left in a cart.

If crime is so rampant, would have thought that most Villagers would be lined up to get burglar alarms. Chances of people getting injured/killed by a gun by accident is probably more likely than a Villager defending themselves from those crossing the border or any other intruder.