Coral Point Fort Lauderdale Condo under lock down!

So after parking stickers, new rules notifications, no smoking wall signs, it is now the turn of locks to be popping out left and right around Coral Point Condo.

"Just like in a fucking jail?!" WHO SAID THAT?? Make yourself known, or the whole cell block will be punished!

Basically you can no longer go around your own property as combination padlocks have been, in a very sneaky manner, put on the access fence doors to the back of the Coral Point Condo located 1400 NE 54th Street in Fort Lauderdale Florida 33334.

Combination padlock preventing access to the back of our building.

The back of the Coral Point building, now a restricted area. 

You can no longer access the back of the building, probably under the usual argument of safety, and we can think of many reasons why this is again, just like the SMOKING RULE, an absurd idea, and moreover a potentially dangerous one.

Let's ponder over some cases illustrating why we believe locked fences on each side of our building, unilaterally preventing us from accessing the back area is in fact a bad idea:

1) Let's say one day you are doing some cleaning, shaking a small rug or dust cloth outside your bedroom window [we know, we know not very chic but hey this is still a very middle-class building and we are not fucking robots just yet] say that rug or cloth slips through your fingers, how the hell are you supposed to go pick it up? Are you supposed to fill up an application in order to access the back of your own building? Are "Coral Point Condo Back Access Application Forms" being printed as we speak?

No big deal you are saying. OK let's heat things up.

2) Let's say you are a burglar and you are scouting buildings for a potential break-in. Don't know if you are aware but burglaries statistics in Fort Lauderdale are staggering. See here for City-data stats. Don't you think as a burglar you could work really at ease knowing you have behind you a small canal with large thick trees bordering the opposite bank, and locked fences on each side of you guaranteeing no one will randomly come to bother you or surprise you. Just like the infamous SMOKING RULE, this is a magnet for trouble.

Now for a really scary one. You know we like those if you have read our theory on the fire hazard induced by the SMOKING RULE.

3) Let's say your seven years old son makes his way to the back of the building. He will find a way for sure, just like the burglars mentioned above, he will climb over the fence or squeeze himself through a broken fence board. Who knows? Bottom line that 7 y/o kid is more agile than us adults, plus he will be extra motivated by the locked fence latch as kids are usually curious and thrilled by restricted areas. Say you suddenly hear him screaming as he fell into the canal. Don't you think by the time you find a way to make it through this now locked fence, your son has more chances than ever to die drowning?

Sure some will argue that a locked fence main purpose is to prevent such freak accident, but we believe free access to the back is actually safer as illustrated by the kid incident described above. And God forbid if such freak incident were to occur, and that you'd be prevented to save your kid or your neighbor's kid only because some control freak enjoys buying combination padlocks at Home Depot and sticking them on fences, the question to ask would not be "Oh God why oh why this happened to us?" but "Who the fuck do we sue?" We suggest members of the Board particularly its President or SunEmerge the condo management company who allows all of these absurd measures to be taken now seemingly on a weekly basis.

If kids want to fall in the canal, don't you think standing on the wood bench that surrounds the pool area will do the trick? Here is an idea for Coral Point condo nazi, since he seems so concerned with our safety and the safety of our kids: what about spending 20 grands of our hard earned money (HOAs) to get rid of the bench around the pool area and build a 7 foot wall in its place?

Proposed location for a 7 foot wall around the pool area.

"Yeah and with some fucking barb wires on top of it that'd be perfect!" WHO SAID THAT?? Make yourself known, or the whole cell block will be punished!

Damn! We should probably not give them any ideas ...

What do you think? Do you like the idea of the locked fence and your free access to the back of the building being revoked?