All this is to protect The Green Bank Tele-
scope which can be thrown off its game
by errant electrical signals such as the
type emitted by cell phones. There is one
microwave in the town and it is in a vault.
Spark plugs cause the telescope to have
headaches as well so only diesel-
powered cars are permitted. And there is
no radio station.
Hogeway Village is a town where every
resident has dementia. The town was
specifically designed to take care of de-
mentia patients and, although it appar-
ently looks just like a normal town, it is,
in essence, a nursing home facility. The
250 workers in the
town are healthcare
providers dressed
to look like clerks,
neighbors, friends,
etc. No one wears
scrubs. The goal is
to trick the 152 res-
idents into thinking
they live in a normal
small town.
According to the
article, “Peachtree
City is only 23.9
square miles, yet
it has two 18-hole
golf courses and
one 27-hole course.
For perspective,
Manhattan is 22.8
square miles. So imagine two full-size
and one mega-size golf courses spread
around New York. Peachtree loves their
golf. They love it so much that residents
have adopted the most fun part of golf
into their daily lives: driving golf carts.
Peachtree City is the golf cart capital of
the world.
“Over 9,000 households in Peachtree City
own a golf cart. That’s more than any
other place on Earth by a long shot. Why
would so many people need so many
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golf carts? I can’t speak to whether they all just
love golf that much, but I’m going to guess it has
something to do with the 90+ miles of golf cart
paths the town has packed into its 23.9 square
miles of land. Golf carts are a way of life. The
entire town has conformed to the golf cart life-
style like someone lied to them and told them
everything is fine and life is one big resort vaca-
tion. People can go anywhere in town on a golf
cart. Children too? Yup!
“Once a kid hits 12 in Peachtree City they can
legally drive a golf cart as long as they’re ac-
companied by a guardian. At 15 they can cart
... around town without supervision. Golf carts
are to high-school-
ers in Peachtree
what hot rods and
dragsters were to
kids in the 1950s. On
any given day, hun-
dreds of carts can be
seen driving people
around with hardly a
full-sized car in sight.
The local police
department has a
special golf cart pa-
trol unit, and plenty
of local businesses
have golf cart park-
ing spaces. At least
one high school
would prefer if their
students drove to
school in golf carts
due to limited park-
ing.”
This dubious award comes to these four towns
courtesy of Cracked.com a humor site that is the
survivor of the now-defunct Cracked Magazine,
which once was a competitor of Mad Magazine.
Hopefully, the good folks in the four small
towns will exercise some humor and laugh
along with the people who read the article. After
all, not everyone gets to be in the top four in the
world!