This is not funy, but I personaly suffer the loss of my bicyle last night, locked to my motor home with a heavy cable that it was cutted witha bolt cutter at Sam Town RV Park in Vegas, the bad part is that only Security came down and just handed me a form to fill with name and description of the stolen item and that is all, no one else including the ront office or manager showed any consern at all....seems to me that this is a very comon thign to happen here so just becarful......The worst part is that I have a space very open, lighted, neighbors,25 yards from the office, secuerity patrol comes aroud every so offten, so all this means to me that there is no real Security and it is a not safe park to leve your stuff out side of your RV.. all of this is for all of you to be carfull....thigns like this happen every where...

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. And you are right, such things happen everywhere these days, ever since we gave up the death penalty for horse thieving.I went to college in a town where 10 year old kids routinely walked the streets carrying bolt cutters for this very purpose. So I feel your pain, having lost a couple bikes to 'em over the years. But short of sitting out in the moonlight with a shotgun loaded with rock salt, what can you do? Maybe lock the bike INSIDE your rig where it is just damn inconvenient in case YOU have to get out, say, in a fire.(You can't kill 'em, however much you might like to, since bike theft doesn't threaten your own life directly -- but you sure can make 'em wish they were dead with a butt full of rock salt.)

It is a shame, theft is handled as a minor problem yet it truly affects you economically and mentally. Las Vegas is full of lights and glitter, but it also has a huge unemployement problem, a large homeless population, and a large transient population. Guess Sams Town doesn't have security cameras on the RV lot but you might ask if a camera caught someone on the property with your bike...not that seeing a person would help you recover the bike. The problem is that even the best locks only deter dishonest people. If the bike was nice enough and worth the effort a power cutter or bigger bolt cutter makes it history.

So sorry for your loss. When we leave valuables out we also chain them and tie a string of jingle bells around them so if a thief trys to take something there will be lots of noise as a warning to us.

path1 wrote:My suspicions of Mexico moving north must be true, even includes Las Vegas now.Yep, even looks like you guys can't get a handle on things. Looks like we're all in the same boat.

RVmex is a Mexican citizen and former owner of RV parks. He has helped a lot of tourists in Mexico. Fausto speaks English but his best language is Spanish. I think the point he was trying to make is that petty theft can occur both NOB and SOB. Cut him a little slack!Moisheh

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tvfrfireman
Explorer
May 31, 2013
leaddog wrote:
We have camped in Sam's Town on more than one occasion and every time we were warned about bicycle thefts. It seem to me if the campground knows it is a problem, then they should do more to stop it. Make it harder to get into the campground and put in some security cameras to catch the thieves.

An isolated theft will happen all over, but Sam's Town has more of a problem than this. It's time they stepped to the plate and made the cg more secure.

JMHO

We camped at Sams Town about fourteen months ago and knew of bike thefts from reading this forum. We couldn't go outside without seeing a security person on a bike. We felt very safe. I guess the thieves have figured out a way around them. While watching TV there I noticed that the Bail Bondsman commercials were on all the time. Lots of addicted gamblers looking for a few bucks to strike it rich at the slots. Lot's of crime there it seems.
leaddog
Explorer
May 31, 2013
We have camped in Sam's Town on more than one occasion and every time we were warned about bicycle thefts. It seem to me if the campground knows it is a problem, then they should do more to stop it. Make it harder to get into the campground and put in some security cameras to catch the thieves.

An isolated theft will happen all over, but Sam's Town has more of a problem than this. It's time they stepped to the plate and made the cg more secure.

JMHO
rvmex
Explorer
May 31, 2013
Do not take me wrong when I posted here n this forum, me as a former owner of an RV Park for more than 35 years in Kino Bay Mexico, I helped and defended many RV'ers fromthe USA and Canada that had problems while in Mexico, some complained about stolen things while in RV Parks, what I mean is that things like this hapen every where it just hapened to me a Mexican RV'er in the USA....
moisheh
Explorer
May 30, 2013
RVmex is a Mexican citizen and former owner of RV parks. He has helped a lot of tourists in Mexico. Fausto speaks English but his best language is Spanish. I think the point he was trying to make is that petty theft can occur both NOB and SOB. Cut him a little slack!

Moisheh
qtla9111
Nomad
May 30, 2013
path1 wrote:
My suspicions of Mexico moving north must be true, even includes Las Vegas now.

Yep, even looks like you guys can't get a handle on things. Looks like we're all in the same boat.
GizmosMom
Explorer
May 30, 2013
So sorry for your loss. When we leave valuables out we also chain them and tie a string of jingle bells around them so if a thief trys to take something there will be lots of noise as a warning to us.
kalynzoo
Explorer
May 30, 2013
It is a shame, theft is handled as a minor problem yet it truly affects you economically and mentally. Las Vegas is full of lights and glitter, but it also has a huge unemployement problem, a large homeless population, and a large transient population. Guess Sams Town doesn't have security cameras on the RV lot but you might ask if a camera caught someone on the property with your bike...not that seeing a person would help you recover the bike. The problem is that even the best locks only deter dishonest people. If the bike was nice enough and worth the effort a power cutter or bigger bolt cutter makes it history.
naturist
Nomad
May 30, 2013
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. And you are right, such things happen everywhere these days, ever since we gave up the death penalty for horse thieving.

I went to college in a town where 10 year old kids routinely walked the streets carrying bolt cutters for this very purpose. So I feel your pain, having lost a couple bikes to 'em over the years. But short of sitting out in the moonlight with a shotgun loaded with rock salt, what can you do? Maybe lock the bike INSIDE your rig where it is just damn inconvenient in case YOU have to get out, say, in a fire.

(You can't kill 'em, however much you might like to, since bike theft doesn't threaten your own life directly -- but you sure can make 'em wish they were dead with a butt full of rock salt.)

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