Common Property Damage in SLR

Only a panicked person wanting to create more problems would put up more signs (note to IT) rather than investigate the problem and make a reasonable determination about the identity of the perpetrator and take corrective action.
 
The Gate Access computer log and office sign-in books have recorded all the vehicles entering the park and that narrows the possible vehicles.  There are spycam videos of the gate entry if someone entered while the gate was in an UP position, as has been the case in the early AM hours lately (?)   Isn't this why we have all these spycams mounted all over the park that no one asked for?  (Or were those cameras experiencing "maintenance" or conveniently not operational for some reason?  To date, the spycams have been useless in every situation where operation might have yielded useable information.)

MANBOD cannot forbid access to common property unless there is a safety hazard present.  They can try to intimidate owners and spend more owner money on ridiculous signs, but that will come to an end at some point and then we can have a community kumba-yah around a fire fueled by IT's signs.  Yup, our money--up in smoke!

My first thought was "another sand in the bathroom" setup i.e. evidence of mischief planted by person(s) for the purposes of creating suspicion and propaganda.

The pattern of tire tracks is very suggestive of mischief.  The vehicle appeared to have entered through JC's Fire Lane; you can see the straight line tire tracks from that area in the pics.  The large tire track of 72-73" is more characteristic of a larger vehicle like a van or truck.

In the second pic, the tire tracks back all the way back INTO shrubbery--which means that the body of the vehicle itself would have been IN the shrubbery about 2 feet--who would do such a thing; seems like a nutty or drunk driver.   Is that backing into the pond and is it possible something was dumped from the back of the vehicle into the pond? 

This area is NOT A FIRE LANE! When "whoever" said that, it then was promptly proven by one resident who talked to the Fire Department Lieutenant in Lake Wales, who confirmed that it is NOT in fact a fire lane. This was done a long time ago--just as a reminder-this is a recreational area for all residents to enjoy--there is NO fire lane here.



If the sign in logs and camera footage is checked to see who was in here as guest(s) visiting, then the resident who these guests was visiting NEEDS TO BE QUESTIONED.

The questions I would be asking of this resident is what type of vehicle they were driving? And, at any time over the weekend, did one of their guests leave and drive around this area?



I did notice that over the weekend, there were a lot of kids--teenagers, young adults--older than teens, but not of retirement age, that were new faces I had never seen in the park before. It's obvious these people were guests and they should be questioned as to this vandalism. These kids/teens/young adults seemed to be rowdy on the few occasions I noticed them around our park. Then, on Sunday morning, this vandalism was discovered and guess what? THE ROWDY GUESTS WERE ALL GONE! GO FIGURE.



And, yet another question: WHERE WAS SECURITY??? IF THERE ARE CAMERAS IN/AROUND THOSE AREAS, THERE HAD TO BE SOMETHING PICKED UP ON THE FOOTAGE FROM THESE CAMERAS. CHECK THE CAMERA FOOTAGES AS TO WHO CAME INTO THIS PARK JUST BEFORE THE WEEKEND WITH SOME SORT OF PASSENGER VAN/TRUCK WITH WHEEL BASE OF 72-73 INCHES. THINK ABOUT THAT, MANBOD: USE YOUR HEADS AND DO SOME LEG WORK ON THIS!!



I think security should be paying more attention to the outsiders that come in here. I have a gut feeling this was NOT done by any resident(S)--us residents have a great amount of respect for our park and don't like outsiders coming in here trashing our beautiful recreational areas.



Us residents that want to walk down there or ride our carts now have big, deep, muddy ruts to try to avoid as well as look at--and that this damage to all that once beautiful grassy areas, obviously came from some sort of passenger van or truck.



I sure would hope MANBOD be getting involved to get to the bottom of this gross vandalism that was obviously done by some outsider(s) who were no doubt drunk and doing as they please by off-roading their vehicle in our recreational areas that are maintained by our employees.



Why is it that someone or something always has to come in here and ruin things for the rest of us that OWN in here and PAY FOR EVERYTHING? I FOR ONE AM REALLY PISSED OFF ABOUT THIS LACK OF RESPECT AND THE OBVIOUS LACK OF THOSE GETTING INVOLVED TO FIND OUT SOMETHING SO THIS CAN BE HANDLED AND CORRECTED.



It says in our Rule Book that those doing vandalism in the park have to pay for correcting/fixing what they broke/destroyed. Yeah. Right. That NEVER happens.