Especially given that in SWFL / Lee county specifically we have had at least two deaths of kids running over siblings/others….its crap. Insurance companies have ownership in this by not regulating golf carts the same way as a car/truck
Yeah that place is pretty bad. Whats crazy is i'm seeing more and more of them on Bee Ridge, Beneva, Clark, Fruitville.. Just crazy.
Now Costco sells electric ones. I mean, at least they know their local demographic? lol
I had a 15-year-old distracted by toddlers knock my mailbox off its post a couple months ago. In February my 16-year-old who knows better was going too fast on a friend's cart and rolled it, causing a hospital visit by ambulance. The wound care specialist at All Children's told me that she sees serious golf cart injuries in pediatric patients about once a week.
It is a serious problem in the area, but people assume that an 800-pound electric cart can't be dangerous because it only goes 15MPH. Of course, there are plenty that go 25MPH.
Don’t see it much in Sarasota, but in my home town people used to bypass the safety restrictions or straight up replace the engine on those and get them going 40-50
40-50mph in a golf cart? your front wheels would be shaking like crazy 🤣 . Does anyone know if golf carts wheels get balanced? If not I don’t see this being possible, may be tho.
Isn’t that different than a 4 wheel vehicle? I may be wrong because it’s just the front tires that affect balance. Regardless you must have speed wabbled like crazy
All four tires need to be balanced for safety, their location front/rear doesn’t change anything, although one could probably argue it’s more important to have the fronts balanced than the rears, if you had to pick.
Short answer: golf carts these days have pretty good suspension, so it will go as fast as the power train will move it. Long answer: This depends on a few factors, but most is rake (for one wheel in front) or caster (on two wheels in front). Easiest to explain in terms of a motorcycle, rake is how much the handlebars lean back toward the driver with respect to the front wheel's axle. No rake would be straight up. As you can imagine, handing a vehicle with the handlebars directly over the wheel will get wobbly real quick. The more the angle, the easier to stay straight. Too much, and sharp turns are tough. This is the same on a car or golf cart. In those examples, is harder to imagine, but there is a component called a steering knuckle/spindle/upright (all three refer to the same thing). The more this is tilted toward the driver, the more caster, thus straighter steering.
I’m sure these guys tricked out more than just the engine, I wouldn’t be surprised if they replaced wheels and shocks, but I was a kid and only knew that golf carts weren’t supposed to be going that fast lol
I used to do this when I was a teen working at a golf course. Fun times! But insanely dangerous. I flipped a beverage cart going 40 mph down a steep hill. It just rained, which meant I could do an amazing 360. Almost got there. Beer and sodas flew everywhere down the fairway. Took me thirty minutes to clean it up.
I see golf carts the same way I see motorcycles. You can be the best and most careful driver in the world, but the reality is that you have next to no protection from injury even with no other vehicles involved AND every vehicle around you is bigger, heavier, and will cause you substantial damage in the event of a collision. Not to mention drivers are hella inattentive and distracted these days. Some golf cart drivers are reckless but at the end of the day, it’s just not a safe vehicle no matter how you drive it unless you’re literally on a golf course going 5 mph as intended.
I’m over in Highlands County. Some of our retirement communities allow golf carts on the streets, but it’s illegal in most places. Nonetheless, I see more and more people using golf carts to run errands, go to the grocery store, etc. Our local cops don’t seem to give a crap. I’ve never seen anyone stopped for taking a golf cart on public right of way.
There is a bodycam video on YouTube from St. Lucie County where a cop pulls somebody over for it and the dude ends up in cuffs because he refuses to give his ID for the citation, but it’s definitely a rare case as it’s usually ignored by the police…at least until someone tips one over and cracks their head open.
As a kid that dated someone who’s dad owned golf courses in high school, I can’t believe we weren’t killed or maimed with what we would put those things through. I wasn’t rich but with my brain half formed I went along with that bullshit and thought it was funny at the time. Now I look back and I’m ashamed.
Cars run stop signs in my neighborhood all the time. Unfortunately, there has been a big increase in the amount of kids driving golf carts and I hope the two never meet.
I see this all the time and get pissed because they are goofing off, not paying attention, and clearly too young to drive. How is it legal and do parents just give kids golf carts? Wtf
It’s not legal if they don’t have a license. The only way to make it legal to drive on the road is by converting it into a road vehicle (proper lights, windshield, etc.), which means you need a license to operate it.
man, tell that to the entire neighborhood i live in out east of 75 (which includes several cops). ATV's, minibikes and mainly golf-carts and UTV's all operated by kids easily under 16. Many are just dancing to toons swerving or goofing off with other golf carts. It's like a young Mad Max movie out here.
Florida recently passed a law making it illegal for kids under 16 to drive a golf cart on a public road. This applies even in communities where it’s legal to put a golf cart on a public road.
May not be legal but cops don’t do anything about it, at least in Naples. Last night I saw a golf cart blow through a cross walk on a bike trail, proceeded by a girl on an e scooter that was following them. E scooter got creamed by a car. She was fine but goddamn they need to enforce some rules. No driving on a fucking walking /biking path.
You also have to get it registered with plates. I remember when we stayed on little Sanibel or whatever it’s called all the carts had plates and no one without a license was allowed to drive it, and this was on an extremely small island with little dirt roads and 0 cars.
On a summer vacation once (probably over ten years ago) my younger brother was pulled over for driving a golf cart (my dad and I were with him) and the officer issued my dad a ticket because my brother was not 16!
I got cut off - me in a Dodge Caravan and six teenagers in a golf cart - on Siesta Key just last week. I was only going 20mph but had to SLAM on my brakes as they came out from a side street onto the main road. And they glared at me like I was the problem! My own daughter was with me and was stunned. It’s a huge problem.
I saw a golf cart crossing lanes on the HIGHWAY in Miami a couple weeks ago. It was where there is a 3 lane, split exit, and the golf cart had been driving on the shoulder, so they had to cross 3 lanes of exiting traffic to get to the shoulder past the exit. They somehow did it without getting hit... But it was absolutely insane to see. (Was one woman driving it and then two people sitting in the back--with streamers off the back that *did* make it a lot more visible.)
Funny you post this; just Yesterday two 14 year olds were riding a golf cart on the sidewalk while I was walking my 2 year old. They were reving it behind me until I turned around and told them they could not be on the sidewalk with that and they said they cannot ride in the street because of no lights. I just stared at them in disbelief and then turned around and started walking again, they ended up driving in the street to go around me.
I got one for you I’m a driver for Kroger delivering groceries in fl those golf carts shouldn’t be near the main rd without a license plate with any age person driving them. Also the fucking bikers that don’t know what lane to use either. I play fucking dogems all fucking night long. Luckily I get paid by the hour lol. Funny I’ve been yelled at for going fast in a small neighborhood it’s a big truck it’s loud so it sounds like I’m speeding but I’m not. I have a camera I get in trouble if I speed with a write up. Then they go flying by on their fucking golf carts faster than I’m going I used to be a golfer I know how fast some of those fuckers can go lol.
I grew up in an established neighborhood in Tampa. The golf carts are everywhere. Parents are letting 11 year olds drive like 5 other kids around with no adults. The police have stopped by several times and told people that the golf carts are NOT street legal and they're going to start ticketing but they keep doing it anyway. A big chunk of the neighborhood has a golf cart. It's only a matter of time until a reckless pre-teen hits something or a car hits one or a kid falls out and cracks their skull open.
I'm in Hillsborough and live in a gated community. Kids are cruising around on the carts with their friends ALL the time. They generally stay in the neighborhood though. Part of me is concerned about the safety aspect and the other part is envious that I never got to drive around a golf cart with all my friends when I was a kid.
We even have a holiday golf cart parade and people do some amazing, elaborate, and borderline insane things to their carts for this event.
You are correct. It is so stupid. I see it often in Laurel Park.
At Fruitville Target recently, a golf cart parked next to me. In the back was an (occupied) baby carrier just chilling w the mom 👎🏻shit parents.
Our town passed a side-by-side, golf cart ordinance where they can drive certain streets. But the law state all occupants must be wearing seatbelts and the laws that pertain to vehicle safety are the same for the side-by-side/golf carts. You also must have a driver's license to operate one.
We've had several residents south of us, in the more upscale subdivision down the street, nailed for driving on public street. The offence instantly revokes the registration of the side by side/golf cart. So we went from seeing about 10 a day to maybe 2 a week.
I meant to say, those residents south of us, it was their younger kids not old enough to have a license who were caught. That instantly revokes the vehicle's registration for AT LEAST a year.
Yeah, it's a very good law. How it should be. Anyone allowed to drive on public roads should have the same laws of safety as typical automobiles. But some in that subdivision believe they're being picked on because, and I quote one who was quoted in the local paper, "They're just jealous. We can afford these recreational vehicles while others around us can't."
Arrogant pricks. There's plenty of us who can afford them, we just don't care to waste money on them.
Oh god I clean an airbnb on the island and holy shit I almost lost my mind when I saw a couple in a golf cart with a woman in the fucking front holding an infant in her arms while they zipped through a turn.
I was in Sarasota last week as a visitor from Massachusetts and the driving STRESSED me out. So many lanes, so many signs, it’s nothing like driving up north, and a lot of the drivers there are people just like me from the northeast who just aren’t used to it. I honestly wouldn’t even send my child out on a bicycle let alone a golf cart. Very irresponsible parents imo.
It’s probably not a coincidence there’s a personal injury lawyer on every block in Florida.
On the plus side, way less road rage and asshole drivers in general.
I got pulled over when I was a kid with my best friend in central Florida on a golf cart. Cop pulled us over they said if we were to drive on the street we needed operational turn signals front and back.
There is an asshole driving around Laurel Park SRQ in his street legal cart as if he was racing Mario and Luigi. I almost got run over by the jackass a few times, worst than kids actually as he also appears to be enjoying cutting off pedestrians.
well tbf to the kids sarasota isnt very walkable, everything is so spread out that most kids problably could not walk or bike to places because its just to far away or there might not even be sidewalks
I'm in Seminole and it's happening here also. People are posting on the NextDoor app about it. Just saw a 3 seater yesterday with an adult driving and several small children riding in the back seats. It's crazy how you are required to have a rear facing car seat in a car but not even a seat belt on the golf carts.
They are required, a new law passed Oct 2023. They require seatbelts if on the roadway and require learners permit now. Hopefully the enforcement will start to catch up as more depts are trained/informed about it.
Same thing on A1A across the state in Daytona Beach. Crazy. Like most things, lazy government will not do anything until there are a few major injuries or death
It’s an everyday thing in our neighborhood in a non-golf cart community and even on the main roads around town. Kids as young as 7 or 8 are even driving them on regular streets and hauling ass. A couple years ago we saw some teenagers pass by our house and the girl in the rear facing seat was sitting sideways across the bench then fell off. We weren’t very close to them and still heard her skull make a loud smacking noise as it hit the road. Surprisingly she got back up and back into the golf cart and they took off again. I know that Florida passed a law last year that says golf cart drivers must have a learners permit or drivers license, but not sure on the rules for how old passengers are or how they need to be restrained. It’s so dangerous.
Why not just allow those $3500 Indian cars if we’re going to ignore DOT safety standards n put Carts on the highways. There’s lots of very cool European n Asian cars not allowed on US roads. By the way anyone else notice how freakin big US made pickup trucks r now compared to the early 90s when a new pickup truck was like 6 grand,,, n yah get off my lawn!!! I know..
For a second I thought you were talking about the gang of rich kids in the scariest neighborhood I have ever lived in. We rented what I can only describe as the helps house in the middle of 5 million dollar homes. They would let their kids drive the carts around and vandalize an empty house that ran out of build money. Rich hooligans with money to sweep shit under the rug. I finished my lease and moved back to the hood were I felt safe with the other paranoid mind your business peiple.
I’m 28, and I saw this the other day. Made me cringe, and I pointed it out to my friends that I was with. It’s not an age issue, it’s a common sense issue.
Im tired of the kids doing the golf cart driving on the busy streets. I don’t care if you’re the parent and sitting right next to him, he’s 10. Get off the road and off my lawn!
My estate planner told me “for the love of god don’t get a golf cart. I see so many accidents w/clients.” Same thing from my pediatrician friend, who has seen the results of a disturbing number of golf cart related accidents. Golf cart vs car = bad time for golf cart occupants. :(
According to the laws in Florida you have to be at least 16 with a driver's license to drive a golf cart on a public roadway.
We have golf cart paths-I think the minimum age is 14 for a dedicated path-but parents don't care if 4yr old Jimmy is driving across the intersection because they can't possibly say no to him. And I see lots of yummy mummies driving with an infant on their laps, too. We've had our share of accidents here, and drive-by harassment by young teen males towards women. We even had a drowning death caused by a
golf cart. Apparently a
couple of drunk buddies went into the woods in a golf cart, the cart got stuck
in mud-it's a swamp, not an idyllic stroll through Walden woods!-they got out to dig it out, one fell
and the golf cart pinned him. He
drowned in a mud puddle. The other
guy walked home, he was
so drunk he didnt even remember it til
the next day. Don't drink and cart, kids.
live in a suburban area and parents are allowing their pre-teens to operate golf carts on public streets. Guess what ? They drive recklessly and speed. So what are the parents thinking ?
You're not being a grump. I see this shit all the time in Lighthouse Point, some parts of FTL and Boca. It's not only unsafe, but fucking obnoxious to boot. Tooling around a gated neighborhood would get a side eye.
Tooling around major public roads in one is irresponsible with kids in tow. I hate when people inflict their stupidity on the innocent.
I’m surprised that law enforcement doesn’t do more, in those places y’all are describing. Revenue! Plus, consistent enforcement reduces the problem. Those families may have enough discretionary income to spend on toys like that, but no one likes paying fines.
My wife is a neurosurgeon in Florida and they have SO many patients come through because of all the kids in golf carts without seat belts. Previously lived Houston and hardly ever saw cases like this.
I have no idea, I live in a rural area, and I see kids on four wheelers all the time, just blasting down the road with no helmet or anything. Makes me sad, especially since I had a young cousin of mine die on one of those when it flipped over.
If the vehicle has a SMV triangle, a license plate and proper turn signals, etc - it’s NOT a golf cart and must be operated by a licensed driver. If the vehicle does not have this safety gear - it’s a golf cart and belongs on a golf course, not neighborhood streets. I fucking hate it when you see kids - obviously unlicensed- racing around the neighborhood in these things.
I was a passenger in a golf and the driver thought it would be funny to, rather than going straight, quickly turn to the right and I got thrown out. Broke my ankle in three places and cracked rib. I was lucky I wasn’t more hurt but yea, they are dangerous!
In the summer I live in a private gated campground. All the carts here are gas powered. Countless underage kids driving. Going to take a kid getting killed out here for something to be done about it
Happens here in Tampa constantly. Golf community and shitty parents are a bad combination. Little kids flying through stop signs with a loaded golf cart.
Just saw this story where a girl and her friends were riding on a golf cart up hill and hit an obstruction that caused the golf cart to tip over on the drivers side trapping the girls arm then sliding down the hill causing the girl to lose her arm….or as she said in the video…she was de-gloved 
We had two 10-13 year olds get hurt racing their 4 x 4s through our hunting camp. I’ve been known to go out and offer help when accidents occur. But these idiot parents make it hard for me to care. Darwin should have not let them reproduce
My South Venice neighborhood is very quiet... which is a relief given how many elementary-school-age kids whizz around here in those carts after dark with no lights on.
Same here in Collier County. Actually a group got hit coming off the Marco Island bridge and a 30 year old woman was killed, others injured. That rd has a speed limit of 55mph. I can’t wrap my head around why people think golf carts belong on the regular roadways. (FYI it was late at night when the golf cart was hit, guy probably honestly didn’t even see them).
I'm in Tampa and had to call in a cart with what looked like two ten year olds in it, doing a bunch of illegal maneuvers on the road. I about couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it.
Yes it seems insane that, we have very safe vehicles cars and trucks with air bags seat belts...... and pay for insurance only to have governments allow golf cart, motorized bike and scooters....... on the road. Makes sense like no helmets on bikes of any kind. Why half all the safety forced on the cars we buy and then allow a bunch of unsafe vehicles on the road.
I'm in central Florida and we have a new community locally that is intentionally golf cart centered.
Sounds like a great idea until you see
1. kids driving them
2. Adults driving who seem to think the rules of the road don't apply to them
3. They cross heavy traffic in the wee hours of the morning to take kids to school.
It's not a second car folks. And your baby's aren't in car seats. Just hanging on for dear life. It's only a matter of time until someone gets killed.
People in Sarasota/Bradenton are trying live their the villages retiree fever dream. Naturally their kids just do their parents' example. pretty simple.
I used to do maintenence on the local ATV/UTV trails in Wisconsin. I'd see people out on the trails with an infant in a car seat bungee strapped down the the rear cargo rack and no helmet on either them or the kid. They would always get mad when the recreational sheriff's deputy would stop them and claim that they was nothing wrong with what they were doing.
I've seen a whole family of six crammed into a four seat UTV. Two adults, four kids (one in a onesie and sucking a pacifier) no seat belts, no helmets.
People go 60+ mph on these trails, two way traffic, and some sections are only wide enough for one of today's huge machines. People are stupid
I'm in Miami, it's happening all over apparently. I remember reading a few years back that laws were changed a bit to allow more non road vehicles to be on road. I think this has led to the huge influx of golf carts you see everywhere. Kids are driving them and cause traffic because they can't keep up with actual road traffic. I don't get how they aren't ticketed or anything.
It's also upsetting because I see less kids riding bikes and doing healthy activities and I see more kids doing this. Parents are taking their kids around on these instead of engaging in healthy activities like riding a bike or going for a walk.
They're pretty common in Viera Fl where I work, but most people stay on the sidewalk which was intentionally built really wide to accommodate golf carts and pedestrians, also same thing with the bike lanes they made them wide enough for the golf carts.
You think this is bad, I’m sick of seeing all the teenagers driving small kids (sitting in the “cool” rear facing seat with no guard rail) all around downtown Winter Garden like idiots. A lot of times they don’t seem old enough to have a DL, so I’m guessing that’s why the ‘rents let them take the ol’ golf cart out and about…like there’s a reason we don’t let kids drive around, idiots. Why let them go in an even less protected vehicle on real streets with normal cars?!? Sooo stupid.
I live is Salt Lake City and they are everywhere here as well, even these long extended ones that fit 10+ people, they are driving everywhere, on sidewalks, not stopping at stop signs.
I’m in St. Pete and see it lately often on busy, congested streets. There are no rules, limitations for anything except uteruses— they’re prob not allowed on golf carts.
Tourists get them from the air BNBs and the kids just go nuts on them. Not just in Sarasota. It's essentially all of SW Florida. Parents have these kids out of school basically year round to go visit Florida and dick around in an air BNB for 2 weeks while their teenager run amok
Ugh! So can’t stand the slow golf carts on the roads! It’s not just you. We had several golf carts riding around Siesta Key this season. They would back up traffic and then the golf cart driver would get pissed when others passed them. I would lay on the horn until they pulled over so I could pass. It was interesting to see them get right back on the road after I passed without letting the line of traffic go by. They purposely do this crap knowing they are holding up traffic.
The law is they can only be on roads where the speed limit is 35 or less. This applies to road legal golf carts as well. So when the speed limit hits 40 or higher on any road, they are breaking the law.
Here is a link to the law: https://www.flhsmv.gov/safety-center/consumer-education/low-speed-vehicles/
Seems like Florida to me. Every time I leave the house I see a golf cart so overloaded with dirt children it looks like a prepubescent Beverly Hillbillies opening credits situation.
My parents live in Dunedin. They bought golf cart. I agreed to ride in it once. I would say I’m an adventurous person. First I was embarrassed. Two. I felt like I was gonna die. And 3. There is some unspoken thing that you can drive those drunk and not get in trouble. NO TY!
I live in the country north of you. People around here let kids so little they have to perch on the front of the seat to reach the pedals drive golf carts down the road. I'm waiting for the day some yahoo flying down the road squashes them.
Yes, with unbelted kids & one with a small dog on a platform on the back, too. By law, they are supposed to have headlights, tail lights, and seatbelts. Maybe a horn? Or something else? I don’t recall. And the drivers are required to be licensed. Not that anybody pays any attention.
In the Villages they have golf cart paths that go over or under local streets and you can pretty much go anywhere by golf cart via these specific paths. They also have some roads where they are allowed to travel in the bike/golf cart/breakdown lane but those are rare and carts are banned on any road which has a speed limit over 40mph. Additionally kids cannot drive one unless they are old enough to have a valid drivers license. Carts cannot be modified to go more than 19.5 mph, must have seat belts, blinkers, and headlights.
There was a law passed last year that all golf carts need to be registered and street legal, and drivers needed to have a license. But that meant that they could go on the roads as long as they could match up to 10mph below the speed or something I think? Which usually means they can be on most residential roads but they shouldn’t be on main highways. It also means you can’t ride them on the sidewalks anymore and you’re supposed to be riding them on the street
They're called hood ornaments. No idea why they do it but they're out there and so is karma. Good luck kids. The way folks drive around here, you'll need it.
Last year a law was signed that prohibits 15 and under driving golf carts and 15+ with learners permit must have a 18+ licensed adult with them. I live in a neighborhood with many deputies that live here. They just drive by these kids and don’t even look at them. Many are 11-12 years old and can barely reach the pedals. They do donuts in the street to hear the tires squeal. Parents have been warned by neighborhood hoa but they dgaf I guess. So I’ll wait to see something terrible happen to them. Then listen to the parents cry “why me. How come this happened to my kid “.
It's strange, most of the people on here went immediately to 'dumbass parents. I just thought they were poor, and that's all they could afford to get around in. If you had to go 10 miles with a baby, how would you get there? I'd go with the golf cart over the bike.
I wanna know why any parent would buy the kid an electric bike! Having a bike is good for a lot of things, having the bike do the work for you, is good for nothing.
I came half a step from being run over on a jog by an idiot 13 year old driving a golf cart 30 mph in an outside mall. They were on the sidewalk about a foot from the wall on a blind corner. Thank God I started half a second later so that I didn't get hit by a freaking golf cart...
What blows my mind is on the same road that you see a golf cart blazing down, you in a car can get a ticket for no seatbelt … wild … also it’s a requirement to be 15 with a learners permit or 16 with a drivers license to operate a golf cart on a road. I see kids that look like MaYBE they are 10 driving around … it usually takes something disastrous to happen before anyone cares and then it’s too late and you know the blame won’t be put on the parents.
You’re not being old. Their asshole parents are being dicks. Then, God forbid, something happens…
You just know the parents would be blaming you if they hit a pothole and their kid went flying. I can't control the potholes Cleetus!
I’m so happy happy 😃 happy happy
Especially given that in SWFL / Lee county specifically we have had at least two deaths of kids running over siblings/others….its crap. Insurance companies have ownership in this by not regulating golf carts the same way as a car/truck
I don't mind people getting around in golf carts, but the children drivers can literally be a menace, on top of being dangerous for them.
Those are called Darwin Awards.
Lake Sarasota is inundated with them. We call them the golf cart mafia.
Yeah that place is pretty bad. Whats crazy is i'm seeing more and more of them on Bee Ridge, Beneva, Clark, Fruitville.. Just crazy. Now Costco sells electric ones. I mean, at least they know their local demographic? lol
“Golf cart Mafia”. Almost spit my coffee out at this. LoL
I had a 15-year-old distracted by toddlers knock my mailbox off its post a couple months ago. In February my 16-year-old who knows better was going too fast on a friend's cart and rolled it, causing a hospital visit by ambulance. The wound care specialist at All Children's told me that she sees serious golf cart injuries in pediatric patients about once a week. It is a serious problem in the area, but people assume that an 800-pound electric cart can't be dangerous because it only goes 15MPH. Of course, there are plenty that go 25MPH.
Don’t see it much in Sarasota, but in my home town people used to bypass the safety restrictions or straight up replace the engine on those and get them going 40-50
40-50mph in a golf cart? your front wheels would be shaking like crazy 🤣 . Does anyone know if golf carts wheels get balanced? If not I don’t see this being possible, may be tho.
You don't need balancing to hit 50+ my single cylinder minibike vibrated like crazy but I can get it to 75-80
Isn’t that different than a 4 wheel vehicle? I may be wrong because it’s just the front tires that affect balance. Regardless you must have speed wabbled like crazy
I would say you're correct if the bike was balanced laterally but it definitely isn't. I need a steering dampener before we go past 75 again lol
All four tires need to be balanced for safety, their location front/rear doesn’t change anything, although one could probably argue it’s more important to have the fronts balanced than the rears, if you had to pick.
Short answer: golf carts these days have pretty good suspension, so it will go as fast as the power train will move it. Long answer: This depends on a few factors, but most is rake (for one wheel in front) or caster (on two wheels in front). Easiest to explain in terms of a motorcycle, rake is how much the handlebars lean back toward the driver with respect to the front wheel's axle. No rake would be straight up. As you can imagine, handing a vehicle with the handlebars directly over the wheel will get wobbly real quick. The more the angle, the easier to stay straight. Too much, and sharp turns are tough. This is the same on a car or golf cart. In those examples, is harder to imagine, but there is a component called a steering knuckle/spindle/upright (all three refer to the same thing). The more this is tilted toward the driver, the more caster, thus straighter steering.
I’m sure these guys tricked out more than just the engine, I wouldn’t be surprised if they replaced wheels and shocks, but I was a kid and only knew that golf carts weren’t supposed to be going that fast lol
You can remove one little piece and they will go 40+. I can't remember the name of the piece but that's probably a good thing.
I used to do this when I was a teen working at a golf course. Fun times! But insanely dangerous. I flipped a beverage cart going 40 mph down a steep hill. It just rained, which meant I could do an amazing 360. Almost got there. Beer and sodas flew everywhere down the fairway. Took me thirty minutes to clean it up.
...and when a car hits a cart at 50 mph, it doesn't matter how fast the cart was going
I see golf carts the same way I see motorcycles. You can be the best and most careful driver in the world, but the reality is that you have next to no protection from injury even with no other vehicles involved AND every vehicle around you is bigger, heavier, and will cause you substantial damage in the event of a collision. Not to mention drivers are hella inattentive and distracted these days. Some golf cart drivers are reckless but at the end of the day, it’s just not a safe vehicle no matter how you drive it unless you’re literally on a golf course going 5 mph as intended.
I’m over in Highlands County. Some of our retirement communities allow golf carts on the streets, but it’s illegal in most places. Nonetheless, I see more and more people using golf carts to run errands, go to the grocery store, etc. Our local cops don’t seem to give a crap. I’ve never seen anyone stopped for taking a golf cart on public right of way.
There is a bodycam video on YouTube from St. Lucie County where a cop pulls somebody over for it and the dude ends up in cuffs because he refuses to give his ID for the citation, but it’s definitely a rare case as it’s usually ignored by the police…at least until someone tips one over and cracks their head open.
Probably just some sovcit traveling in his road boat. Nothing to see here😂
lol this is my PRIVATE VESSEL and I do NOT contract with the state!!
Sign my fee schedule!😂
Sovcits are responsible for so many of my favorite YouTube bodycam videos…so many quotable quotes, so little time! 🤣
Oh me too! I find their wordy-bits fascinating!
Also in Highlands. I think many people are using them to avoid having the expense of owning a car.
“My 16 year old who knows better”… clearly not lol
Silver lining: she does not feel nearly so immortal driving a real car at speed now.
They have 6+ kids on them a lot of times. I thought this stuff requires a license on public roads?
As a kid that dated someone who’s dad owned golf courses in high school, I can’t believe we weren’t killed or maimed with what we would put those things through. I wasn’t rich but with my brain half formed I went along with that bullshit and thought it was funny at the time. Now I look back and I’m ashamed.
Cars run stop signs in my neighborhood all the time. Unfortunately, there has been a big increase in the amount of kids driving golf carts and I hope the two never meet.
And parents holding their infants like footballs under their arm as they drive down Tuttle. Pure stupidity.
I constantly see smaller children maybe 6-8 holding toddlers on their laps while riding on the rear facing seat.
It's all over Florida.. they are the new lovebugs
Same in coastal Alabama. They even drive on the 55 mph highway at night. Cops don’t do shit
I see this all the time and get pissed because they are goofing off, not paying attention, and clearly too young to drive. How is it legal and do parents just give kids golf carts? Wtf
It’s not legal if they don’t have a license. The only way to make it legal to drive on the road is by converting it into a road vehicle (proper lights, windshield, etc.), which means you need a license to operate it.
man, tell that to the entire neighborhood i live in out east of 75 (which includes several cops). ATV's, minibikes and mainly golf-carts and UTV's all operated by kids easily under 16. Many are just dancing to toons swerving or goofing off with other golf carts. It's like a young Mad Max movie out here.
Florida recently passed a law making it illegal for kids under 16 to drive a golf cart on a public road. This applies even in communities where it’s legal to put a golf cart on a public road.
May not be legal but cops don’t do anything about it, at least in Naples. Last night I saw a golf cart blow through a cross walk on a bike trail, proceeded by a girl on an e scooter that was following them. E scooter got creamed by a car. She was fine but goddamn they need to enforce some rules. No driving on a fucking walking /biking path.
You also have to get it registered with plates. I remember when we stayed on little Sanibel or whatever it’s called all the carts had plates and no one without a license was allowed to drive it, and this was on an extremely small island with little dirt roads and 0 cars.
On a summer vacation once (probably over ten years ago) my younger brother was pulled over for driving a golf cart (my dad and I were with him) and the officer issued my dad a ticket because my brother was not 16!
I got cut off - me in a Dodge Caravan and six teenagers in a golf cart - on Siesta Key just last week. I was only going 20mph but had to SLAM on my brakes as they came out from a side street onto the main road. And they glared at me like I was the problem! My own daughter was with me and was stunned. It’s a huge problem.
If folks were moving toward carts to save gas, that would be encouraging. But this is FL, so instead they do it for max assholery.
I saw a golf cart crossing lanes on the HIGHWAY in Miami a couple weeks ago. It was where there is a 3 lane, split exit, and the golf cart had been driving on the shoulder, so they had to cross 3 lanes of exiting traffic to get to the shoulder past the exit. They somehow did it without getting hit... But it was absolutely insane to see. (Was one woman driving it and then two people sitting in the back--with streamers off the back that *did* make it a lot more visible.)
It’s not just Sarasota. I see this stuff in Parrish, Sun City, and Riverview all the time.
Sun City has infrastructure for it though like extra wide sidewalls and GC parking spots
Funny you post this; just Yesterday two 14 year olds were riding a golf cart on the sidewalk while I was walking my 2 year old. They were reving it behind me until I turned around and told them they could not be on the sidewalk with that and they said they cannot ride in the street because of no lights. I just stared at them in disbelief and then turned around and started walking again, they ended up driving in the street to go around me.
I got one for you I’m a driver for Kroger delivering groceries in fl those golf carts shouldn’t be near the main rd without a license plate with any age person driving them. Also the fucking bikers that don’t know what lane to use either. I play fucking dogems all fucking night long. Luckily I get paid by the hour lol. Funny I’ve been yelled at for going fast in a small neighborhood it’s a big truck it’s loud so it sounds like I’m speeding but I’m not. I have a camera I get in trouble if I speed with a write up. Then they go flying by on their fucking golf carts faster than I’m going I used to be a golfer I know how fast some of those fuckers can go lol.
Must be a Florida thing.
I grew up in an established neighborhood in Tampa. The golf carts are everywhere. Parents are letting 11 year olds drive like 5 other kids around with no adults. The police have stopped by several times and told people that the golf carts are NOT street legal and they're going to start ticketing but they keep doing it anyway. A big chunk of the neighborhood has a golf cart. It's only a matter of time until a reckless pre-teen hits something or a car hits one or a kid falls out and cracks their skull open.
Shit, it's spreading
The cops in Highlands county do Jack shit about it
More like a transplant from Indiana thing.
It’s spreading into Alabama too
I'm in Hillsborough and live in a gated community. Kids are cruising around on the carts with their friends ALL the time. They generally stay in the neighborhood though. Part of me is concerned about the safety aspect and the other part is envious that I never got to drive around a golf cart with all my friends when I was a kid. We even have a holiday golf cart parade and people do some amazing, elaborate, and borderline insane things to their carts for this event.
You are correct. It is so stupid. I see it often in Laurel Park. At Fruitville Target recently, a golf cart parked next to me. In the back was an (occupied) baby carrier just chilling w the mom 👎🏻shit parents.
Was behind one going 15, full of people, down GOMD from Ana Maria to LBK pass at Coquina. Had traffic backed up for miles.
Pure Michigan.
I think there's somewhere on AMI that rents them. Hope they have good insurance
Just said the same thing to my wife 4 days ago... My kids in a car seat (for good reason) and they are driving on busy roads.. Insane
Same here in Jensen Beach. Have seen a gulf carts full of young children flying down the causeway. Idiots.
Our town passed a side-by-side, golf cart ordinance where they can drive certain streets. But the law state all occupants must be wearing seatbelts and the laws that pertain to vehicle safety are the same for the side-by-side/golf carts. You also must have a driver's license to operate one. We've had several residents south of us, in the more upscale subdivision down the street, nailed for driving on public street. The offence instantly revokes the registration of the side by side/golf cart. So we went from seeing about 10 a day to maybe 2 a week.
That is a good law.
I meant to say, those residents south of us, it was their younger kids not old enough to have a license who were caught. That instantly revokes the vehicle's registration for AT LEAST a year. Yeah, it's a very good law. How it should be. Anyone allowed to drive on public roads should have the same laws of safety as typical automobiles. But some in that subdivision believe they're being picked on because, and I quote one who was quoted in the local paper, "They're just jealous. We can afford these recreational vehicles while others around us can't." Arrogant pricks. There's plenty of us who can afford them, we just don't care to waste money on them.
there’s more children on golf carts than there is cars in my neighborhood most nights
We are from Venice and been seeing it the past few years. They want to be like Boca Grande. See it a lot in the Carolina’s too
Yes, yes they are insane. More so, the damn police ignore the little MF’rs and drive AROUND THEM. Sgned, a driver behind SCO
Oh god I clean an airbnb on the island and holy shit I almost lost my mind when I saw a couple in a golf cart with a woman in the fucking front holding an infant in her arms while they zipped through a turn.
I was in Sarasota last week as a visitor from Massachusetts and the driving STRESSED me out. So many lanes, so many signs, it’s nothing like driving up north, and a lot of the drivers there are people just like me from the northeast who just aren’t used to it. I honestly wouldn’t even send my child out on a bicycle let alone a golf cart. Very irresponsible parents imo. It’s probably not a coincidence there’s a personal injury lawyer on every block in Florida. On the plus side, way less road rage and asshole drivers in general.
call the cops when you see this, that is inarguable, flat-out child endangerment.
You should see what the Amish do on their bikes. I’ve seen babies towed in a basket behind a bike on Fruitville.
I got pulled over when I was a kid with my best friend in central Florida on a golf cart. Cop pulled us over they said if we were to drive on the street we needed operational turn signals front and back.
Unfortunately a few kids have to die before anybody takes any action.
I doubt it. It's Florida - "freedom of choice" and all.
There is an asshole driving around Laurel Park SRQ in his street legal cart as if he was racing Mario and Luigi. I almost got run over by the jackass a few times, worst than kids actually as he also appears to be enjoying cutting off pedestrians.
well tbf to the kids sarasota isnt very walkable, everything is so spread out that most kids problably could not walk or bike to places because its just to far away or there might not even be sidewalks
I'm in Seminole and it's happening here also. People are posting on the NextDoor app about it. Just saw a 3 seater yesterday with an adult driving and several small children riding in the back seats. It's crazy how you are required to have a rear facing car seat in a car but not even a seat belt on the golf carts.
They are required, a new law passed Oct 2023. They require seatbelts if on the roadway and require learners permit now. Hopefully the enforcement will start to catch up as more depts are trained/informed about it.
Same thing on A1A across the state in Daytona Beach. Crazy. Like most things, lazy government will not do anything until there are a few major injuries or death
It’s an everyday thing in our neighborhood in a non-golf cart community and even on the main roads around town. Kids as young as 7 or 8 are even driving them on regular streets and hauling ass. A couple years ago we saw some teenagers pass by our house and the girl in the rear facing seat was sitting sideways across the bench then fell off. We weren’t very close to them and still heard her skull make a loud smacking noise as it hit the road. Surprisingly she got back up and back into the golf cart and they took off again. I know that Florida passed a law last year that says golf cart drivers must have a learners permit or drivers license, but not sure on the rules for how old passengers are or how they need to be restrained. It’s so dangerous.
It's another way to control population growth, much like surviving a trip on I-4.
Is it me or does it seem middle class white people are just horrible parents? Edit: am a middle class white person.
Why not just allow those $3500 Indian cars if we’re going to ignore DOT safety standards n put Carts on the highways. There’s lots of very cool European n Asian cars not allowed on US roads. By the way anyone else notice how freakin big US made pickup trucks r now compared to the early 90s when a new pickup truck was like 6 grand,,, n yah get off my lawn!!! I know..
I see it all the time out on AMI.
Always check your cameras
God forbid these kids actually walk to the damn gas station or ride a bike like we all did.
You can’t fix stupid
Affluenza
Please call the police if you see this. The situation is out of control and parents need to be held accountable.
We should make the roads safer so kids can get around without being in danger
For a second I thought you were talking about the gang of rich kids in the scariest neighborhood I have ever lived in. We rented what I can only describe as the helps house in the middle of 5 million dollar homes. They would let their kids drive the carts around and vandalize an empty house that ran out of build money. Rich hooligans with money to sweep shit under the rug. I finished my lease and moved back to the hood were I felt safe with the other paranoid mind your business peiple.
I’m 28, and I saw this the other day. Made me cringe, and I pointed it out to my friends that I was with. It’s not an age issue, it’s a common sense issue.
You’re old as hell. My lawn looks better
Im tired of the kids doing the golf cart driving on the busy streets. I don’t care if you’re the parent and sitting right next to him, he’s 10. Get off the road and off my lawn!
Golf carts are allowed as low speed vehicles on streets with a 35 mph or less speed limit. I believe they can cross streets with a higher speed limit.
My estate planner told me “for the love of god don’t get a golf cart. I see so many accidents w/clients.” Same thing from my pediatrician friend, who has seen the results of a disturbing number of golf cart related accidents. Golf cart vs car = bad time for golf cart occupants. :(
An infant in a rear facing booster seat was driving a golf cart?
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According to the laws in Florida you have to be at least 16 with a driver's license to drive a golf cart on a public roadway. We have golf cart paths-I think the minimum age is 14 for a dedicated path-but parents don't care if 4yr old Jimmy is driving across the intersection because they can't possibly say no to him. And I see lots of yummy mummies driving with an infant on their laps, too. We've had our share of accidents here, and drive-by harassment by young teen males towards women. We even had a drowning death caused by a golf cart. Apparently a couple of drunk buddies went into the woods in a golf cart, the cart got stuck in mud-it's a swamp, not an idyllic stroll through Walden woods!-they got out to dig it out, one fell and the golf cart pinned him. He drowned in a mud puddle. The other guy walked home, he was so drunk he didnt even remember it til the next day. Don't drink and cart, kids.
live in a suburban area and parents are allowing their pre-teens to operate golf carts on public streets. Guess what ? They drive recklessly and speed. So what are the parents thinking ?
You're not being a grump. I see this shit all the time in Lighthouse Point, some parts of FTL and Boca. It's not only unsafe, but fucking obnoxious to boot. Tooling around a gated neighborhood would get a side eye. Tooling around major public roads in one is irresponsible with kids in tow. I hate when people inflict their stupidity on the innocent.
I’m surprised that law enforcement doesn’t do more, in those places y’all are describing. Revenue! Plus, consistent enforcement reduces the problem. Those families may have enough discretionary income to spend on toys like that, but no one likes paying fines.
My wife is a neurosurgeon in Florida and they have SO many patients come through because of all the kids in golf carts without seat belts. Previously lived Houston and hardly ever saw cases like this.
After a lifetime of being annoyed at this habit from wealthy older people, it's nice to hear that kids are doing it annoying an old person. Lol.
Privilege
Golf carts don’t belong on roads. There was a couple killed on wedding night riding in a golf cart and hit by a car.
I have no idea, I live in a rural area, and I see kids on four wheelers all the time, just blasting down the road with no helmet or anything. Makes me sad, especially since I had a young cousin of mine die on one of those when it flipped over.
If the vehicle has a SMV triangle, a license plate and proper turn signals, etc - it’s NOT a golf cart and must be operated by a licensed driver. If the vehicle does not have this safety gear - it’s a golf cart and belongs on a golf course, not neighborhood streets. I fucking hate it when you see kids - obviously unlicensed- racing around the neighborhood in these things.
There lazy fu**s
Save a life. Flatten some golf cart tires.
There’s a new store in Lakewood ranch called “golf cars” and I think a lot of people are talking that literally
They are just getting ready for the electric cars they will have to drive.
I was a passenger in a golf and the driver thought it would be funny to, rather than going straight, quickly turn to the right and I got thrown out. Broke my ankle in three places and cracked rib. I was lucky I wasn’t more hurt but yea, they are dangerous!
In the summer I live in a private gated campground. All the carts here are gas powered. Countless underage kids driving. Going to take a kid getting killed out here for something to be done about it
Happens here in Tampa constantly. Golf community and shitty parents are a bad combination. Little kids flying through stop signs with a loaded golf cart.
Just saw this story where a girl and her friends were riding on a golf cart up hill and hit an obstruction that caused the golf cart to tip over on the drivers side trapping the girls arm then sliding down the hill causing the girl to lose her arm….or as she said in the video…she was de-gloved 
Florida man
Maybe the parents do not care about the risk to their little kids.
Yeah, that’s pretty clear.
Sounds like Florida to me lol
I remember doing the same thing with my friends in Parrish back in the 90s and early 2000s.
We had two 10-13 year olds get hurt racing their 4 x 4s through our hunting camp. I’ve been known to go out and offer help when accidents occur. But these idiot parents make it hard for me to care. Darwin should have not let them reproduce
Kids ride on the back of scooters all over the world.
We saw people in a golf cart on I-4 in Orlando not long ago. I almost crashed my own car staring at it because I couldn’t believe my eyes.
How was the rear-facing baby steering, rear view mirror??
Just gonna put this out there… kids are kinda dumb
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's just hilarious.
My South Venice neighborhood is very quiet... which is a relief given how many elementary-school-age kids whizz around here in those carts after dark with no lights on.
Same here in Collier County. Actually a group got hit coming off the Marco Island bridge and a 30 year old woman was killed, others injured. That rd has a speed limit of 55mph. I can’t wrap my head around why people think golf carts belong on the regular roadways. (FYI it was late at night when the golf cart was hit, guy probably honestly didn’t even see them).
Knew a guy in Arizona, he built a business modifying the gear train on golf carts to crank up their speed. His nickname was Whipper..
They are everywhere, not licensed but allowed. Go figure !
I'm in Tampa and had to call in a cart with what looked like two ten year olds in it, doing a bunch of illegal maneuvers on the road. I about couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it.
I would even take my little children on one let alone a baby. Is there even seat belts?
Yes it seems insane that, we have very safe vehicles cars and trucks with air bags seat belts...... and pay for insurance only to have governments allow golf cart, motorized bike and scooters....... on the road. Makes sense like no helmets on bikes of any kind. Why half all the safety forced on the cars we buy and then allow a bunch of unsafe vehicles on the road.
Was it by sarasota memorial? The kids in the Hillview neighborhood fuck around on those carts all day☠️
The kids on illegal motor dirt bikes are worse . At least golf carts are quiet....
I just saw this on Key biscayne this past weekend and it was like little babies in golf carts. Everything's opened, tons of traffic. I don't get it.
Saw a child driving a golf cart in Tampa!
I'm in central Florida and we have a new community locally that is intentionally golf cart centered. Sounds like a great idea until you see 1. kids driving them 2. Adults driving who seem to think the rules of the road don't apply to them 3. They cross heavy traffic in the wee hours of the morning to take kids to school. It's not a second car folks. And your baby's aren't in car seats. Just hanging on for dear life. It's only a matter of time until someone gets killed.
Golf cart vs any car = one fucked up golf cart and probably dead occupants.
People in Sarasota/Bradenton are trying live their the villages retiree fever dream. Naturally their kids just do their parents' example. pretty simple.
I used to do maintenence on the local ATV/UTV trails in Wisconsin. I'd see people out on the trails with an infant in a car seat bungee strapped down the the rear cargo rack and no helmet on either them or the kid. They would always get mad when the recreational sheriff's deputy would stop them and claim that they was nothing wrong with what they were doing. I've seen a whole family of six crammed into a four seat UTV. Two adults, four kids (one in a onesie and sucking a pacifier) no seat belts, no helmets. People go 60+ mph on these trails, two way traffic, and some sections are only wide enough for one of today's huge machines. People are stupid
Because all of Florida is trashy. The cops don’t enforce it.
Welcome to Florida
I'm in Miami, it's happening all over apparently. I remember reading a few years back that laws were changed a bit to allow more non road vehicles to be on road. I think this has led to the huge influx of golf carts you see everywhere. Kids are driving them and cause traffic because they can't keep up with actual road traffic. I don't get how they aren't ticketed or anything. It's also upsetting because I see less kids riding bikes and doing healthy activities and I see more kids doing this. Parents are taking their kids around on these instead of engaging in healthy activities like riding a bike or going for a walk.
All these communities what to be like The Villages. But they're not.
This is in parts of tallahassee also I hate it
It’s a Florida thing, y’all
They're pretty common in Viera Fl where I work, but most people stay on the sidewalk which was intentionally built really wide to accommodate golf carts and pedestrians, also same thing with the bike lanes they made them wide enough for the golf carts.
You think this is bad, I’m sick of seeing all the teenagers driving small kids (sitting in the “cool” rear facing seat with no guard rail) all around downtown Winter Garden like idiots. A lot of times they don’t seem old enough to have a DL, so I’m guessing that’s why the ‘rents let them take the ol’ golf cart out and about…like there’s a reason we don’t let kids drive around, idiots. Why let them go in an even less protected vehicle on real streets with normal cars?!? Sooo stupid.
I live is Salt Lake City and they are everywhere here as well, even these long extended ones that fit 10+ people, they are driving everywhere, on sidewalks, not stopping at stop signs.
I’m in St. Pete and see it lately often on busy, congested streets. There are no rules, limitations for anything except uteruses— they’re prob not allowed on golf carts.
Tourists get them from the air BNBs and the kids just go nuts on them. Not just in Sarasota. It's essentially all of SW Florida. Parents have these kids out of school basically year round to go visit Florida and dick around in an air BNB for 2 weeks while their teenager run amok
Delray Beach, Florida and Ocean City,NJ. are plentiful with these irresponsible adults, posing as parents.
Ugh! So can’t stand the slow golf carts on the roads! It’s not just you. We had several golf carts riding around Siesta Key this season. They would back up traffic and then the golf cart driver would get pissed when others passed them. I would lay on the horn until they pulled over so I could pass. It was interesting to see them get right back on the road after I passed without letting the line of traffic go by. They purposely do this crap knowing they are holding up traffic. The law is they can only be on roads where the speed limit is 35 or less. This applies to road legal golf carts as well. So when the speed limit hits 40 or higher on any road, they are breaking the law. Here is a link to the law: https://www.flhsmv.gov/safety-center/consumer-education/low-speed-vehicles/
Seems like Florida to me. Every time I leave the house I see a golf cart so overloaded with dirt children it looks like a prepubescent Beverly Hillbillies opening credits situation.
My parents live in Dunedin. They bought golf cart. I agreed to ride in it once. I would say I’m an adventurous person. First I was embarrassed. Two. I felt like I was gonna die. And 3. There is some unspoken thing that you can drive those drunk and not get in trouble. NO TY!
I see them all around Broward county too. Usually driven by teens and preteens. I was so confused at first but apparently it's a common thing
Your getting old and everyone has scared you into thinking the only way to live your life is in a perceived safety bubble.
No liability protection either for parents or cart owners. Dumb move to let kids off property in golf cart.
There are more golf carts on the road than motorcycles in Destin, Fl.
I live in the country north of you. People around here let kids so little they have to perch on the front of the seat to reach the pedals drive golf carts down the road. I'm waiting for the day some yahoo flying down the road squashes them.
Yes, with unbelted kids & one with a small dog on a platform on the back, too. By law, they are supposed to have headlights, tail lights, and seatbelts. Maybe a horn? Or something else? I don’t recall. And the drivers are required to be licensed. Not that anybody pays any attention.
I File that under Death Wish
The soccer moms in the suburbs do that here in Jax too and it's infuriating. You're not old you have common sense
I’m in Florida; we call that “culling the herd. And, yes, lunacy.
Had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t The Villages chat
In the Villages they have golf cart paths that go over or under local streets and you can pretty much go anywhere by golf cart via these specific paths. They also have some roads where they are allowed to travel in the bike/golf cart/breakdown lane but those are rare and carts are banned on any road which has a speed limit over 40mph. Additionally kids cannot drive one unless they are old enough to have a valid drivers license. Carts cannot be modified to go more than 19.5 mph, must have seat belts, blinkers, and headlights.
There was a law passed last year that all golf carts need to be registered and street legal, and drivers needed to have a license. But that meant that they could go on the roads as long as they could match up to 10mph below the speed or something I think? Which usually means they can be on most residential roads but they shouldn’t be on main highways. It also means you can’t ride them on the sidewalks anymore and you’re supposed to be riding them on the street
Keep the kid off the cart; keep the parents in jail.
Late term birth control
They're called hood ornaments. No idea why they do it but they're out there and so is karma. Good luck kids. The way folks drive around here, you'll need it.
Dumb parents!! First to sue if something happens.
What’s with the rich and Sarasota is the question?
Last year a law was signed that prohibits 15 and under driving golf carts and 15+ with learners permit must have a 18+ licensed adult with them. I live in a neighborhood with many deputies that live here. They just drive by these kids and don’t even look at them. Many are 11-12 years old and can barely reach the pedals. They do donuts in the street to hear the tires squeal. Parents have been warned by neighborhood hoa but they dgaf I guess. So I’ll wait to see something terrible happen to them. Then listen to the parents cry “why me. How come this happened to my kid “.
It's strange, most of the people on here went immediately to 'dumbass parents. I just thought they were poor, and that's all they could afford to get around in. If you had to go 10 miles with a baby, how would you get there? I'd go with the golf cart over the bike.
I wanna know why any parent would buy the kid an electric bike! Having a bike is good for a lot of things, having the bike do the work for you, is good for nothing.
No more sabertooth tigers so we have to weed out the gene pool somehow.
I came half a step from being run over on a jog by an idiot 13 year old driving a golf cart 30 mph in an outside mall. They were on the sidewalk about a foot from the wall on a blind corner. Thank God I started half a second later so that I didn't get hit by a freaking golf cart...
Redneck activity
Seems like typical Florida behavior. At the very least WhiteTrash behavior.
The cops need to ticket the parents.
What blows my mind is on the same road that you see a golf cart blazing down, you in a car can get a ticket for no seatbelt … wild … also it’s a requirement to be 15 with a learners permit or 16 with a drivers license to operate a golf cart on a road. I see kids that look like MaYBE they are 10 driving around … it usually takes something disastrous to happen before anyone cares and then it’s too late and you know the blame won’t be put on the parents.
Bad parenting
I feel really bad for whoever they crash into....sometimes victims of a crime blame themselves.