Camping Altercations?

When our kids were still at home my brother and I always took our families in the fall to the NF. We would camp and ride 4-wheelers for a week. We always stayed at the same spot at the end of a dead end road. We went up one morning and put up our tent and put the chairs around the camp fire ring then headed back for the travel trailers. My brother was first back because he lived closer. When he got there the tent and chairs were thrown out in the woods and three men and three trailer (from out of state) were set up in our spot. It got really ugly and they were threatening him. He told them they better sleep with one eye open. He was still mad the next day and went back with a couple of friends but they were gone. They had told him they were staying for a week but I guess they changed their mind. We always teased him about it, said you might be a redneck if you ever got in a fight over a camping spot.

The only time we had an altercation I started it, sort of. Years ago, when the kids were still with us we were sitting around a campfire telling stories on a Friday evening. Some tent campers pulled into the neighboring site and started building their tent. They had parked their car about 10 feet away from our firepit so it was close. Every time they went to the car to get out supplies they unlocked it and then with supplies in their arms they locked it again... With the key fob - and the horn would honk each time. This went on over and over - till I decided I needed something from our truck. Yup - I leaned over and honked the horn just for good measure even though I didn't have a honking key fob thing and the door wasn't even locked. A few minutes later the gentleman came over ready for a fist fight. DH calmed him down and everything turned out OK. Whew!

None personally, but we got to witness quite a brawl last summer, a few sites over. No idea what caused it, but fists were flying, with both men and women involved! Both sites were empty the next morning.

If mother nature would do a periodic gene culling of the human race, a lot of these types of people would not be a problem.;) My tolerance for morons is 0 and the appropriate response is always taken when I encounter one.

I wouldn't quite call it an altercation, but one time while at a park in our C (no toad) to visit a local air show nearby we had an 'issue' with the fella across the way.

We had headed out right after breakfast in the motorhome as we had every morning to see the air show. This day however we ended up coming back around lunchtime instead of being away the whole day since we'd met friends who were also at the show and the wives were going to go back to the park and hang by the pool while us guys were going to go to the lake nearby where the floatplanes were based.

When we got back to the park we discovered the fella from across the lane in our site waxing his B in the shade on our site.

He completely ignored me pulling up, and when I went over to ask him to move so I could park he brusquely told me to just park in his site and "bugger off" he needed to finish and it had to be done in the shade. His site was full afternoon sun. I explained I preferred my own shady site since I had dogs in the coach and declined his offer to swap sites. He said he was only half done and be finished by dinner time.

Long story short I just contacted the office who came down to ask him to move. He was equally uncooperative with them.

Within a few minutes he was heading out the front gate in his half waxed rig screaming about oppression and how I had 'gotten him' thrown out.

Why do dog owners assume we all love their dogs as much as they do? I have a dog but I dont just let him jump on people figuring they love it too....

I mentioned in another post that years ago a guy pulled out an ak47 and fired at my friends for some reason. Nobody was hit but the guy did go to jail. That was desert camping not a campground.

I think the most common altercations you will hear happens sometimes between spouses as they back into their site. We laugh when when it happens to us, but others don't.

We camp about 8-10 weekends plus vacation each year and have never had an altercation with anyone. Once some people walked through our daughter's site about 3 inches from their TT, startled their dog who was inside, and she barked really loud, not snarled, barked. They were offended, too bad, they should not have been 3 inches from her TT.

Had one idiot shine a high powered flashlight in my wife's face as she was backing or rig up on leveler blocks as I was directing her. It was late and had no way to turn off the Daytime Running Lights.

About the only confrontations we have had is with the loose dogs. Our 15# one is always on a leash with harness so I can lift her off the ground when the loose ones come at us. They may be just playing but I don't take the chance.

When the offenders come to get their pet they usually say it is 'friendly', 'just got loose' or other comments. I then tell them I wasn't sure but had my foot ready to keep space between us. This usually has encouraged them to keep their tied up for the remainder of the time. If it is not kept up then I use the ranger for help.

Never any altercations but you gotta love it when you just check in and your making your way thru the cg to your site and you come up on a tv in the road with room to get by with zero room for error and the owner just standing there with that clueless look on his face like, what's the problem....