Camping Altercations?

We had come to Alta Lake SP in WA to camp for a few days with our sons and their kids on Memorial Day. Just after we set up, seven cars arrived across the road from us and set up in 3 sites at the CG with more that 20 young "adults" and 6 children. The first thing that they did was to put shot glasses and 1/2 gallon Vodka bottles on the tables, and try to set up their tents (entertaining). The Russian speaking campers got very loud with singing (entertaining) and then drunken yelling (not so entertaining). They were trying to start a fire with no success, so I went over with some paper and kindling and to befriend a few before the trouble I could feel was coming, had started.

Another couple set up their TT next to the Russians, who had expanded a bit into their campsite. He was black, and she was white, with 3 children, and the insults and threats began, with the family unable to use their fire pit, and retreated into their TT. I asked them to join our campfire, but they said that they were OK.

The CG hosts came to ask the Russians to please quiet down, but they refused, and later threw rocks at their RV. They called the Park Rangers, who came and warned them, which helped a bit, but it was still a very volatile situation.

Those of us in surrounding campsites talked with each other, and prepared for further issues. The CG hosts retreated to their TT, feeling threatened, which was probably a good idea. In the morning, the Park Rangers came by and suggested an undeveloped campground for the Russians to move to, who were very upset about that suggestion. The Rangers left, and a son of a neighboring camper ran through their site, and the still drunken campers, threw rocks at him. The Rangers were called again, and returned to stand over them until they moved on.

After they moved on without further problems, but with lots of bad stares and a few insults, more cars quickly arrived, and other groups of Russians set up camp. We all groaned, but they came to us and apologized for their "friends". There were no further issues.

Yup, in 16 years only one altercation and that was with a drunken rv park owner who was upset we violated one of his petty rules that was not posted and we were not told. (Found out a few days later that there is a reason his park is only half full - had quite a reputation in the area. Not going back there. Will only say it was in the Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN area)

Old biscuit, thanks. Now I have a visual that I cant get rid of!!:E LOL
As for me, in 14 years, no altercations, a few annoyances but that is it.

Casa Grande RV Park......camper next door like to stand in his open doorway naked.

I hollered out the window to put some clothes on. He gave me the one finger wave.
I again hollered out the window, put some clothes on or we will have a 'talk'
He waved an appendage and it wasn't his finger this time.
GF wasn't fast enough to block my exit.

When I approached his trailer he slammed and locked the door.
By that time GF had contacted office to send an ambulance.
Office staff showed up and informed him he had 15 mins to vacate. They had a complaint the day before from campers that had been in our site and warned him.

Cops showed up and escorted him from the rv park.

"Altercation" Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
4 or 5 years ago a guy walked right to the spot I'd been fishing and immediately caught a nice bass. I told him I hated him.
My ol' camping buddy and I were both smoking some ribs on our identical Weber's and his had a better flavor. I told him I hated him, too.

Yup, Bruce.

Most people would not know an AK from 12ga.

In 42 years of camping, can't remember an altercation until January of this year while camped at a Thousand Trails park in So. Cal. We were parked in a pull thru site, when late in the day in comes a DP pulling a monstrous trailer filled with 15 dirt bikes. Being retired bikers, we had no problem with the new arrivals. They pulled in the opposite way, making it a buddy site with their exhaust pipe 2 ft. from our slide out. The next morning off they went, not to be seen again for two weeks.

They returned after dark one night while we were eating supper, and fired up the diesel so they could load the bikes. The fumes begin filtering in our slide out and within 10 minutes we gave up on dinner. After 20 minutes we had to evacuate, with two dogs and a cat carrier. DH and I stood by our rig and glared at them but said nothing. After 30 minutes, DH went to a phone (no cell service) to call a Ranger (no luck). After 45 minutes, one of the men came over in my face and said, "Glaring at us won't make us go any faster. Why don't you just get in your car and go somewhere?"

Well, so much for keeping my mouth shut. I'm sure our fellow campers could hear the back-and-forth exchange. I not-so-politely told them they could have pulled off the park exit road to load up. After almost an hour of idling, they finally pulled out.

The next morning DH found a wallet belonging to one of the guys, lying in the middle of their site, with a $100 bill in it and lots of credit cards. Oh, how tempting it was to take it to San Diego and toss it on the sidewalk. We gave it to the TT manager.

dave54 wrote:
I believe it was an
AK.

And you "believe" this why, exactly? It's always an "AK" when people (and the press) need to sensationalize their story, isn't it?

Bruce

JnJnKatiebug wrote:

hotbyte wrote:

JnJnKatiebug wrote:

cgmartine wrote:
During a summerhow they want outing in a Yosemite, Ca. forest campground, we arrived around 1:00 pm in the afternoon and my wife started the generator to get lunch cooking. There were two women in a tent camping about 40 feet away, and they both came over and told me to shut down the generator. When I told them no, they refused to leave. This went on for about 20 minutes, even when I threatened to call the ranger. It was in the national forest and I just refused to shut it down until my wife finished cooking. I told them it would take 20 minutes, but they wanted it shut down now. The finally left, but were fuming.

I have to ask, why do you need a generator to cook lunch?

If during appropriate generator hours, why does it matter how they cook lunch?

Does not really matter to me, I did not have a generator running 20 feet from my tent. We do a lot of cooking when camping, none which requires a generator. I just wondered what they were cooking.

If it was during generator hours why would it matter? I'm still working on how it went from 40ft to you changing it to 20ft.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

and also have it running in my trailer in order to mitigate and noise intrusion into neighboring sites.

:E You run your genset in your trailer? :h I hope that is a misstatement.

In my cargo trailer with the ramp open, I try to aim it away from any campers, it is super quiet to begin with and this strategy just helps with the decibels.