This shocking story took place last month in an elegant gated community bordering on beautiful Stoneybrook West Country Club in Winter Garden, FL. If you have a house on a golf course, you half expect the place to get hit with an errant ball occasionally. But what you probably don't expect is for a guy to come to your door and claim, apologetically, to have hit your house with a golf ball... then attempt to barge in and attack you when you open the door to discuss it with him.
That's exactly what happened to one Winter Garden resident. Fortunately she was able to fend off her attacker.
Area residents have now been warned to keep doors and windows locked. The attacker was described as a white male wearing a baseball cap with with a navy logo, plus brown pants and a brown jacket. In other words, he looked just like just about every golfer out there...like the golfer-next-door.
So this is a cautionary tale. One that should remind us that, even in the gated sanctuary of an exclusive golf community one can no longer completely let their guard down.
Scary, and a sad commentary on the way the world is these days. So glad the resident was fine. That's what really matters.
ReplyDeleteI've discussed with friends the relative merits of forms of protection, especially for women alone in their homes. Some argued for a handgun. Others for an alarm system. My favorite is the form once employed by the jetbeagle household: a pair of trained dobermans.
ReplyDeleteHandguns can jam or be unloaded. A frightened person can shoot and miss. A handgun can be turned on its owners. Dobermans in pairs suffer none of these failures.
That's deplorable. Are there really more and more perverts and sickos around these days or do we just hear about them more. We have a relative who lives in Florida's famous "Villages" community and she told us of a similar incident there. Scary. These are meant to be cloistered neighborhoods, but I guess that doesn't really exist.
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