On 7/23/13 8:05 PM, Eisboch wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:02:41 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 7/23/13 5:24 PM, wrote:
He was a stranger INSIDE the fence of a gated community. This was not
a public street.
The entire community had a gate around it, with a guard at the
entrance(s)?
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I am sure each gated community (governed by their respective HOAs) have
their own rules and regulations, but they are private communities, not
public.
The one we lived in (in Jupiter) was gated with uniformed guards at the
entrance. The guards were armed with Glocks. Only residents and
guests with permission to enter for specific days were allowed within
the community.
When we bought the house Mrs.E. had not seen it yet. I made our offer
on it shortly after taking the Navigator down there. Mrs.E. flew down
the day before the closing and we drove over to the community the
evening before and attempted to enter so I could show her what we were
buying. The guard was a good looking but tough sounding female who,
despite my pleas and explanations, politely but firmly refused entry
with her palm of her hand on her holstered but very visible sidearm.
Once we closed on the house and had the required barcode sticker on the
vehicles, she was always pleasant with a wave and big smile.
It's kind of laughable for a community to present itself as "gated,"
when the gate is wide open and there are no uniformed guards.
An architect friend of mine lived in Malibu Colony for many years, and
when I was in LA and went to visit him, there was a guard's gate and a
uniformed guard. If your name was on the visitor's list, you got in and
if not and the guard could verify you were a guest (verify via phone
call), you also got in. I didn't notice whether the guards were armed.