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Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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10-09-2014, 03:54 PM
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#62
10-09-2014, 03:55 PM
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WOODA
COULDA SHOULDA For god's sake, call the cops and let them sort it out. That's what we pay them for.
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10-09-2014, 04:18 PM
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In fact I took on a couple of posters back then saying I thought they were over reacting. I was wrong. I often am. I am not paranoid but after having listened to the sheriff's department as to how to keep your home safe, I have changed a few views. If any of you want to have a person from the sheriff's office come to your home and tell you how to make it safer, I don't think you will regret it.
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10-09-2014, 05:25 PM
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10-09-2014, 07:53 PM
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Gracie please know that I don't disagree with any of your points regarding what I would do if someone drove up in an unmarked car and started pulling my or a neighbor's weeds. My oldest son is the neighborhood police officer here in Columbus and I'm the block watch person. If I see something I say something fast! |
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10-09-2014, 08:03 PM
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It means nothing Janice, just an old person's musings.
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#69
10-09-2014, 08:08 PM
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Gracie....It's cool.. Hope I meet you some day..
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10-09-2014, 09:05 PM
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Well, I am personally satisfied that with the endorsement of MarkinMd, who has had much more experience than any of us on here, and the knowledge that I also have seen that our own Police Dept. here in the Villages want us to call them to do the checking, and to practice early reporting of ANYTHING suspicious, that the right thing was done. I have not been here as long as some of you, when we moved here 4 yrs ago, you never saw any reports of crimes, or even accidents. Obviously some reports were probably filtered, but it is only common sense that as our population increases, more and more crime will happen, and these will be the "good old days." If we are not all willing to do as the police say, we might just one day have a very bad outcome.
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10-09-2014, 09:51 PM
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And I don't get your point about hoof beats and a zebra. Just sayin'. LOL 
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10-09-2014, 11:06 PM
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To some people, it might be an old car driving slowly down a street To others, it might be two young guys we don't recognize carrying TVs and jewellery boxes out of a house. The cops say they don't mind being called, so perhaps we shouldn't worry if we bombard them with calls. Last year in our Village, one of the neighbors was concerned when he spotted people he didn't know parking cars and walking through a couple of back yards. It made him very nervous. He said he called the police a couple of times but they never came. That's my sole experience.
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10-10-2014, 08:30 AM
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A while back the woman that lived across the street from me was having an affair with a cop, and his car was parked on the street at odd times of the day and night. I LOVED it! All of a sudden everyone was on their best behavior, driving slowly down the street, keeping the noise down at parties, etc.
 On my TV street there is this one couple that peeks out the blinds at anything and everything. They aren't very social, but they sure are interested. As a matter of fact, while we were gone two of my friends drove over to our house in their golf cart, got out and walked around and peeked in the windows because they hadn't see the house yet. My neighbor came over and stood at the edge of the yard, obviously watching them. He never introduced himself or said anything, just stood there. There isn't anything suspicious going down on my street without those two keeping watch and being able to make a full report. Maybe every street needs that one nosy neighbor.
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10-10-2014, 08:56 AM
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And if you were black and were very aware of the real issues of driving while black, walking while black, shopping while black, you also would be very aware that even without any conscious discriminatory intent our culture and the person who called the cop had just a bit of extra alertness and extra suspicion when it was a black person who was picking some weeds. If you don't understand that view of how it happens too often and impacts the black experience in America you are not listening. It has been Oprah and Condoleezza not just those you don't know like this landscaper. No one is color blind in our society, not those on the left either. And for anyone to state that this man's color did not play a role in the aroused suspicion of the neighbor is ignoring reality.
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