Should we be studying our neighbour more.....

[EuroTrotters]

On campsites it’s most likely the other campers that has stolen your chairs/bbq or bikes so it’s no different anywhere else...

Suspect everyone.....

Someone stole our gear whilst we were out.

Don’t know how or why, I stared at the guy I thought it was out of 500 people

It was returned with an aplogy that day.

 

[nicholsong]

Someone stole our gear whilst we were out.

Don’t know how or why, I stared at the guy I thought it was out of 500 people

It was returned with an aplogy that day.

Trev

Maybe wearing the two knuckledusters and the 14lb sledgehammer helped

 

[Sundowners]

About three years ago we were camped at the unofficial aire, as it was then, beside the swimming pool at Silves in the Algarve. Must have been easy 150 vans. Whilst there, two vans got broken into the same night. One was owned by a guy who was wheelchair bound, could not use his legs, the other was a van that was empty, the young lady who owned it had to go back to UK for two days.

Now if that’s not an inside job I don’t know what it is.

We are with you @Northernraider, we prefer to park up on own.

 

[JockandRita]

The problem is that when away it is too easy to let your guard down and be too lax about security etc, the number of times I see people wander off from their MH to go talk to someone else over the other side of the car park/aire etc, leaving their own MH wide open for anyone to enter. If we want to sit outside our MH for a while we can lock all the doors and then exit via the sliding door so we know all is secure, especially important if the dogs are outside with us. Some may think this is OTT but its actually the opposite as we can relax and enjoy sitting out without worry.

I'm the same Mel, I am one who thinks if your not prepared to loose it..........lock it.
We had so many doors on our bungalow, Janie use them all, I walked around behind her locking them.

I'm with you on this one - if we are both sitting outside all the doors/lockers are locked apart from the hab door and if Mrs Colpot falls asleep when we are both outside I have been known to lock the hab door in case I fall asleep as well. Mind you thinking about it if I fall asleep first then who knows.......

Same here, ie, if sat outside the MH, then only the Hab door is unlocked.

At home, even when occupied, the doors are locked. In the summer, the front and 2 x side passage doors are locked, and the back door open, but with no access to it except by us. We live in a cul-de-sac, where one neighbour came close to having his motorbike stolen (I found it round the corner immobilised, on my way to work), and another neighbour had her push bike stolen from inside her gated passageway.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[Hilewaychile]

Back-along, me and my flat mates sauntered out on foot to our local Indian, 5 mins away. There was a gap where my car had been... a legal but dog-eared Austin 1100.

On the walk to the restaurant, in another street, was my car. We had our meal - in those days you could pig out for £5, Inc a pint - and on the way back I got into the car, drove home and parked in the very same spot.

F.fwd a few months. The 1100 failed its MoT terminally. It was still taxed and insured so I parked it, intending to scrap it. Before I got round to it, it was nicked. Insurance paid up, just the same...

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[ianthebuilder]

I went out the other week,, for ten mins,, left Helga unlocked,,

Got back to find nothing of value left in the van!!

I was gutted,, till I realised I didn’t have anything of value anyway!!