[meme5x]

Can’t really say The Villages is the friendliest.. nice but not friendliest

[Keefelane66]

On the bright side one more gun out of society

[Larchap49]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

People in The Villages are quite nice. This doesn't happen in the Villages!

Golfer shoots man for walking his dog on Palm Beach course

Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.

[OhioBuckeye]

Ohhh, ouch! Not good.

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by Larchap49

Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.

I haven’t played there in about two years but I think he needs some more golf balls!

[Bellavita]

not yet anyway

Originally Posted by Rainger99

People in The Villages are quite nice. This doesn't happen in the Villages!

Golfer shoots man for walking his dog on Palm Beach course

[affald]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

Quite a crime scene. Perfect NY Post material. Would never make the Daily Sun.

Actually the New York Post has a great technology section where they have earthshaking articles about laptops. 😱

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

People in The Villages are quite nice. This doesn't happen in the Villages!

Golfer shoots man for walking his dog on Palm Beach course

Sad, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by rsimpson

Better Headline: 74 year-old Florida Man shoots a 64 with a 9-'iron', still upset about dog legs on course.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by Larchap49

Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.

I use my ball retriever to get a ball in a yard. If it don't reach, I leave it.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Larchap49

Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.

I'm assuming that this gentleman is the (very rare) exception to the rule. The people we've encountered living in homes adjacent to the golf courses seem very friendly.

Case in point: my wife and I were on Silver Lake before it closed for remodeling. Some of the holes have fairways that parallel a line of homes; one hole actually has a green that is very close to someone's yard. Anyway, my wife hit a drive that sliced into the yard of a resident, who had just gotten off a ladder where he was cleaning gutters. We asked him if we could retrieve our ball, and he had no problem with that. I politely observed that living where he did he must get a lot of errant balls, and asked him if he had to replace windows from time to time. He laughed, rapped on a window and said "Plexiglas!"

[dhdallas]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

People in The Villages are quite nice. This doesn't happen in the Villages!

Golfer shoots man for walking his dog on Palm Beach course

Obviously a loyal "Daily Sun" reader. TV has more than its share of live-in scum; pedophiles, domestic abusers, drug addicts & alcoholics, thieves, vandals, stalkers and more. Community Standards pits neighbor against neighbor. Golf cart drivers hate cyclists & walkers. Walkers hate cyclists and golf carts. Cyclists hate cars and golf carts. Everyone hates renters. Strip off the sunny veneer and you will find plenty of ugliness within our gated (not really gated) plastic artificial Twilight Zone/Pleasantville/Stepford community.

[Flyers999]

Originally Posted by Larchap49

Standing on the tee of 7th hole of Longleaf about 3 houses down on the left there is house with large grill with a Duke cover on it. He threatens to have golfers arrested for trespassing if they step foot in his yard to retrieve a ball. He has a large bowls of golf ball prominitly displayed on a table just inside his screen enclosure. A very friendly gentleman I've heard. Imagine buying a house close to the tee box on a golf course and then being an ass when a ball lands in your yard.

I have a similar story. I was playing with a friend on either Hacienda or De La Vista, I forget which, some course near that area. My friend move to TV some time ago. Definitely an old-timer. We passed one house next to the course and he mentions that the previous owner was forced to move from TV. Apparently he pulled a gun on someone who was attempting to retrieve their ball from his lawn, and threatened to shoot if they didn't. He wasn't arrested but they worked out a deal with TV/cops to vacate the area.

As far as the topic, I believe that TV is the friendliest hometown (of towns over 100k population). One gets more waves from strangers than anywhere else? Right? OK if not TV, where is the friendliest town? Again, of those over 100k.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by dhdallas

Obviously a loyal "Daily Sun" reader. TV has more than its share of live-in scum; pedophiles, domestic abusers, drug addicts & alcoholics, thieves, vandals, stalkers and more. Community Standards pits neighbor against neighbor. Golf cart drivers hate cyclists & walkers. Walkers hate cyclists and golf carts. Cyclists hate cars and golf carts. Everyone hates renters. Strip off the sunny veneer and you will find plenty of ugliness within our gated (not really gated) plastic artificial Twilight Zone/Pleasantville/Stepford community.

Yep. To some the glass is eternally half-empty.

You're going to find those types of people wherever. Back in Minnesota I carried a pistol every time I stepped out of the house, and we lived in a town that only a decade or so before had been voted as one of the ten most livable cities in America! I haven't even applied for my Florida permit yet and we've been here going on two years now. No need.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Yep. To some the glass is eternally half-empty.

You're going to find those types of people wherever. Back in Minnesota I carried a pistol every time I stepped out of the house, and we lived in a town that only a decade or so before had been voted as one of the ten most livable cities in America! I haven't even applied for my Florida permit yet and we've been here going on two years now. No need.

If you stay "inside the bubble", I tend to agree. But if you venture "off campus"?

It can get a bit sketchy in certain areas...