Campers from hell
I know it's never a good idea to camp on the 4th, but this no-hookups CG is so pretty with big spaces. And cheap. I guess cheap is what attracts this: Late yesterday an Excursion towing a fright ...
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Interesting concept, @Dennis12. I'll have to think about that.
I do some volunteer hosting at a nearby NFS campground each spring. One of the rules of the campground is that dogs must be leashed at all times. Partly that is to prevent anybody getting bitten, but partly it is also to prevent someone who is not a dog person, perhaps someone with a serious phobia, from being afflicted by fear and loathing and doing something untoward. And nearly always when we explain it to owners, they get it and do the right thing.
So this spring, we had one of the others. Couple had two large pit bulls they let roam freely. Nice dogs, but not a breed that elicits coos and cute remarks. The pair seemed well trained, but still, there's a rule and it's there for sound reasons. So the campground host goes over to ask them to leash their dogs, and they flatly refused, insisting that their dogs were so well trained they should be exempt from following that rule. Host got on the radio to ask the park administrator what to do, and he said he'd send down one of the uniformed summer interns to talk to them. And if that didn't do the trick, then he'd call for a LEO and have them escorted out of the park.
Intern goes down, talks to them, and convinces them to grudgingly leash their dogs. Problem solved, right?
Sunday evening the park administrator gets on the radio to the camp host and reads a letter of complaint from the couple, who were most unhappy that that rude host had tried to get them in trouble, having perceived the uniformed intern as a LEO. They went on to complain that a nice family such as theirs, with such friendly and well trained/behaved dogs should not be thus afflicted. Park administrator said it was the first time in his 18 years there that someone had complained about the camp host instead of about the administrator, so he owed them a beer for taking one for the team. And he reiterated, if you can't get them to comply, the only option available is a LEO and eviction.
I do some volunteer hosting at a nearby NFS campground each spring. One of the rules of the campground is that dogs must be leashed at all times. Partly that is to prevent anybody getting bitten, but partly it is also to prevent someone who is not a dog person, perhaps someone with a serious phobia, from being afflicted by fear and loathing and doing something untoward. And nearly always when we explain it to owners, they get it and do the right thing.
So this spring, we had one of the others. Couple had two large pit bulls they let roam freely. Nice dogs, but not a breed that elicits coos and cute remarks. The pair seemed well trained, but still, there's a rule and it's there for sound reasons. So the campground host goes over to ask them to leash their dogs, and they flatly refused, insisting that their dogs were so well trained they should be exempt from following that rule. Host got on the radio to ask the park administrator what to do, and he said he'd send down one of the uniformed summer interns to talk to them. And if that didn't do the trick, then he'd call for a LEO and have them escorted out of the park.
Intern goes down, talks to them, and convinces them to grudgingly leash their dogs. Problem solved, right?
Sunday evening the park administrator gets on the radio to the camp host and reads a letter of complaint from the couple, who were most unhappy that that rude host had tried to get them in trouble, having perceived the uniformed intern as a LEO. They went on to complain that a nice family such as theirs, with such friendly and well trained/behaved dogs should not be thus afflicted. Park administrator said it was the first time in his 18 years there that someone had complained about the camp host instead of about the administrator, so he owed them a beer for taking one for the team. And he reiterated, if you can't get them to comply, the only option available is a LEO and eviction.
