THE DOWNSIDE OF BEING ''PUBLIC''

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Your Fairways Watch coordinator would like to share an example of a risk created by the inviting ''public'' sign ,shown above.
  It was on Sunday afternoon, January 5, about 1pm. I was entering the park in my truck, when I saw 2 young ,white males, aimlessly, riding their bikes in a circle near the outside of the inbound gate.
  Being of a suspicious nature, I pulled into the office parking lot and waited. Sure enough, they ''tailgated'' a car and came down Pebble Beach. 
  I very politely stopped them and asked their intentions. They replied in broken English that they were coming in to ''play golf'' [no clubs] I played along and asked if they had a T time.They asked what was a T time ? At that point I asked them to leave. The 2 went back out the gate. I knew that they would return. Later I was advised that they re entered the park, and went down Inverary.
  Was this ''profiling''?--you betcha--with good reason. 
  Abiding by the rules of neighborhood watch, there was nothing more that could be done. If this would have happened at night, with the golf course closed, --yes-- 911 would have been called for ''suspicious persons''
 In view of the criminal activity in our community, over the past few months, we have every right to be extra observant of all non residents.
  The above narrative is a classic example of why we need a reliable security system at the gate. The system offered by HTA does not even meet the basic requirements.
 Fairways Watch submitted a sensible gate security system to Hometown. The counter offer was an employee, standing at the gate with a ''clicker'' with a monthly price tag, higher than the cost of the plan we submitted.----''AND THE BEAT GOES ON''