Campground Theft?

[OL Creeker]

See? Even that raccoon knows what REAL beer is! If it had been Fat Tire or Shiner, it would have disappeared!

[mjones12]

Originally Posted by paulmac

Only thing we have ever had stolen was a couple of pieces of firewood, and it happened right in front of us. A young child was walking around looking for firewood and walked up to our pile and picked up a piece and started to walk away. He couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old. We sat their just stunned, not knowing what to say. Then the child's father came around the bend and saw what his son was doing he was so apologetic and embarrassed. We were just like hey he couldn't carry more than 1 or two pieces anyway, no problem. One thing I have noticed more of though is lack of respect for other people's sites. What I mean is I would never take a short cut and walk through someone's site, whether they are there or not. It seems lately that some people, mainly young adults think it is perfectly OK to just cut through your site .

Yes, that is really bad manners. I figure everyone's site is their private property during the time they are renting it. I guess others don't see it that way. I think most of us welcome people who walk by on the road and stop at our sites to be friendly, and most folks tend to speak to you first before walking onto your site, in my experience. I usually invite them to come on over and sit down. But folks who just want to take a shortcut.....that's a product of poor upbringing and laziness.

[Herk7769]

Originally Posted by crushor

Camping Buddys, where could you get a lock assy like that? Knowing that nothing is sacred, a little deterrent is always welcome.

They are gun locks. Thousands were given away by police departments all over the country a few years ago for families to secure their guns against unauthorized use. Can't say I have ever seen one on a gun though...

[Camping Buddys]

Originally Posted by crushor

Camping Buddys, where could you get a lock assy like that? Knowing that nothing is sacred, a little deterrent is always welcome.

City of Hermosa Beach : Project Child Safety

They are gun locks. Thousands were given away by police departments all over the country a few years ago for families to secure their guns against unauthorized use. Can't say I have ever seen one on a gun though...x2

[crushor]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the info. I know my guns are Iocked up but certainly not with those.

[Witch Doctor]

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[RubenZ]

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[djmac1964]

Well my problem with theft always seems to be in the cooler area. As mentioned before, I have had a cooler full of beer stolen over a memorial day weekend, and this past week, while in FL, at a state park, someone went into our cooler and removed 2 "T" bone steaks. It is really kind of weird because the were 4 more steaks in the cooler, along with some ground beef, and several different drinks, and a cooler full of beer right beside it. At first I thought it might have been rodents, but I don't think they would have got the cooler open, and if they had, I believe they would have taken more than a package containing two steaks.

[jamesroadking]

Someone took my sewer hose and folding plastic sewer hose holder from my 38 foot class A motor home when we were staying at Kelly's RV park west of Callahan Florida on US 1 / 301 about 3 years ago. When I told the owner of the RV park, she reimbursed me $20.

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by djmac1964

Well my problem with theft always seems to be in the cooler area. As mentioned before, I have had a cooler full of beer stolen over a memorial day weekend, and this past week, while in FL, at a state park, someone went into our cooler and removed 2 "T" bone steaks. It is really kind of weird because the were 4 more steaks in the cooler, along with some ground beef, and several different drinks, and a cooler full of beer right beside it. At first I thought it might have been rodents, but I don't think they would have got the cooler open, and if they had, I believe they would have taken more than a package containing two steaks.

Not to be flippant, but leaving a cooler out is kinda inviting theft. Learned that many yrs ago when 2 young boys (6 or 7) helped themselves to our cooler of Pepsi, but later that day, here came the boys with their father and apologized profusely. We accepted part of the blame for leaving the cooler out, but I think the boys learned a good lesson. We don't leave coolers out anymore.
BTW, the boys became good friends to our 2 boys over the summer and are still friends and laugh about the incident.

[djmac1964]

Originally Posted by OldCoot

Not to be flippant, but leaving a cooler out is kinda inviting theft. Learned that many yrs ago when 2 young boys (6 or 7) helped themselves to our cooler of Pepsi, but later that day, here came the boys with their father and apologized profusely. We accepted part of the blame for leaving the cooler out, but I think the boys learned a good lesson. We don't leave coolers out anymore.
BTW, the boys became good friends to our 2 boys over the summer and are still friends and laugh about the incident.

You are probably right, and I do sometimes put the cooler in the back of the truck now if it is a busy weekend at the campground. But this was on a Wed night, and there were only a few people there, so I never dreamed anyone would be in it. My mistake I guess.

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by djmac1964

You are probably right, and I do sometimes put the cooler in the back of the truck now if it is a busy weekend at the campground. But this was on a Wed night, and there were only a few people there, so I never dreamed anyone would be in it. My mistake I guess.

I think it is human nature to relax a little and/or forget that all people are not as honest as we would like to believe them to be. We leave more valuable things out than our cooler, but we've been very lucky of the last 50+ yrs of camping with the Pepsi incident being our only encounter and it turned out being good in the end as 4 friendships were made no doubt for life.

[08flagvlite]

The only thieves we have ran across while camping are the RACCOONS!!!

[John4th]

Five years and never an issue. Would not leave my wallet, keys, electronics, etc... out. Always lock the trailer and truck up when gone and at night. Otherwise, no one has ever messed with chairs, hitch equipment, stroller, even cheap toys left on the picnic table. Heck, better than my neighborhood (and we're a low-crime area.)