PARADISE LOST IN PARADISE THAT NEVER WAS…

PLASTICVILLE-USA

PARADISE LOST IN PARADISE THAT NEVER WAS…

When it comes to spreading manure America’s dairy farmers are rank amateurs compared to the Mighty Morse Myth Machine. In fact the only thing that can surpass TV PR department when it comes to shoveling bullshit is a Democrat politician.

For decades Morse Industries has spun their development into “America’s Friendliest Hometown” and literally one-hundred plus thousands have willingly bought into the hokum. Believe me..if Villagers are your friends you have no need for enemies!

One of the myths of TV which up until a few years ago was probably the closest there was to truth, was that TV was a relatively safe place to be. Sumter County, which holds the largest acreage of TV development has one of the lowest crime rates in America.

Since 2013 those numbers have been inching up, and a great deal of that uptick is happening in TV.

Depending on whose estimate you choose to believe the full-time residential population of TV is about 150,000. That’s not counting people who own property in TV who still hold their legal residency in another state. That number of 150,000 surpasses the individual populations of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA market, Syracuse, NY and Green Bay, Wisconsin..who just happens to come with its very own NFL team for heaven’s sake! So no matter what way you cut it, there are a bunch of people in TV. And they are far more tightly concentrated than the citizens of any of the cites we listed. Also, the cities mentioned have a good deal higher rate of crime, especially violent crime than can be found in TV. So on the face of things it looks like the Morse Myth Machine has this one right.

However as they say on television…”But wait! There’s more!!” Over the past several years property crime has gone way up in TV and in a sense it’s very easy to see why. Villagers are notorious for being shallow show-offs. While they will act as though they’ve been stabbed when it comes to leaving a decent tip for some hard-working restaurant server, they have no problem spending their money on things that can be shown off. They don’t bat an eyelash when it comes to laying out 25-grand for a new Rolex, or 35-large for some tricked out golf cart or 2 Wilsons for a new Mercedes. They want people to SEE that they’ve got money. Anybody with any street savvy will tell you that showing off like that makes you an automatic candidate for property crime. You automatically tell the thief that you’ve got what they want.

On any given day TV is almost always under construction of some kind. Whether it’s brand new homes, remodeling, or putting in a pool, there are contractors and their vans parked everywhere. There are at least as many lawn mowing guys as there are mosquitoes in Florida and vans from Dish Network, Direct-TV, plumbers, AC repairmen and electricians are everywhere and anywhere all day long making it easy as pie for some dedicated group of thieves to place some sort of bogus magnetic sign on a nondescript work van or pick-up truck and scope out who’s home, who’s not and when they come and go. For awhile we were seeing almost a burglary a day in the newer and more expensive areas of TV. Also there are entire areas where the homes are owned by the reviled snowbirds where no one is home up to 9 months out of the year. TV is a thief’s paradise.

But up until recently, that’s all it’s been..property crime. Breaking and entering. Stealing stuff and getting out. Police detectives will tell you that house breakers are rarely violent. They don’t want confrontation, they just want your stuff. Now that in itself is certainly bad enough, but we’re not talking about violent home invasions here. Just burglars stealing fenceable goods.

There has also been a rash of arrests of various Villagers for offenses that run from simple shop-lifting, to weenie-wagging all the way up to domestic battery and pulling guns on unsuspecting people in the middle of a foolish argument.

However last Christmas season a couple of people were robbed at gunpoint on different occasions and that managed to shake the Villagers awake for at least a short time. At least time enough to shout some threats and remind the crooks that lots of them are veterans and they’ll shoot their ass. Hats off to our veterans..and Thank-You for your service..but most of these guys haven’t had a fight since they were in Germany, Japan or Korea. They’re not ready for primetime anymore.

Then came Thursday, October 29^th at 1220pm. What happened then stripped all the gears off the Morse Myth Machine. On this date 24 year old Derrick Lorenzo Hayes already a 2-time loser in the Florida criminal system allegedly stuck a gun in the face of an unsuspecting man who was just filling his tank at the local Shell station..the one I just happen to buy my gas at..Demanded his keys and then took off with the surprised man’s car.

Hayes proceeded to lead deputies from Sumter and Marion counties on a merry high-speed chase all over TV at speeds up to 80. Hayes doubled back and wound up crashing the stolen vehicle into a mini-van being driven by a hapless Villager directly in front of TV life-care residence known as Freedom Pointe. Freedom Pointe is also directly across from The Villages Regional Hospital. Unfortunately for the innocent Villager who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time he was so badly injured that instead of being taken across the street to TVRH, it was necessary to call the University of Florida’s air ambulance to take the victim north due to his traumatic injuries. Hayes is now in the Sumter County lock-up with a long list of charges pending.

Armed car-jackings are a long, long way from somebody stealing a big-screen television. While this sort of thing is unfortunately not unusual in cities with populations in the area of 150,000 residents, they are unusual in TV. However, as more people buy into the myth of Adult Disneyland, this type of crime is very likely to increase because thieves are starting to see TV as easy pickings.

As happened when the two people were mugged last Christmas season, all the John Wayne wannabees came out of the woodwork and started their chest thumping on my favorite source for Villager arrogance, stupidity and comedy..Bitch..er..um..Talk Of The Villages.

Now I am a believer in the second amendment and I am a long-time member of the NRA. But the numbskulls who pop out whenever something like this happens in TV scare the hell out of me. In Florida it’s relatively easy to get a carry permit as long as you don’t have a criminal record. And lots of Villagers have carry permits. And lots of these same Villagers, the very same ones who go to the squares at night and drink themselves silly run around packing heat and threatening to blow away any miscreant who might cross their path.

There have been lots of comments about how they would have shot the car-jacker if he had tried that on them! I always get a good laugh from these twits. They think they’re bad. They think they’re tough. Except..they’ve never met anybody who’s really tough or a real, true bad-ass.

What is most likely to happen is that if push came to shove the frightened Villager would try to pull their gun and any of a number of things might happen…none of them good…

1) The crook will take THEIR gun away from them and shoot THEM with it before going about whatever crime he wants to commit.

2) The Villager who is frightened and not in a controlled shooting environment will panic and fire wildly thus hitting some innocent guy who just stopped off for a newspaper, or better yet in the case of the car-jacking will fire wildly and hit an operating gas pump which will send everybody off to meet God.

3) They will fire and wind up getting charged with a crime themselves. Remember..nothing is ever as cut and dried as it seems once you pull a gun out and use it.

But on and on the Villagers babble about how they would “take care of things”. So many idiots..so little time.

Whatever else it means, the car-jacking on October 29^th equaled paradise lost in TV. There’s no going back now. But in the end paradise was lost in a paradise that never was in the first place.