Campsite/Campground Theft
I read quite often in this forum of people securing anything that weighs less than their RV to deter theft. It is a shame if this needs to be done and I am wondering if theft at campgrounds is as bad...
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Some people are paranoid
We have been camping all our lives and never have had a thing stolen.
I have to take that back: Many years ago while tent camping, with our kids in a beautiful national forest camp ground in the mountains of New Hampshire, inadvertently we left a Tupperware sugar bowl on the picnic table overnight.
In the middle of the night we heard the snarls and growls of the
"masked bandits" and needless to say the sugar bowl was gone in the morning.
We looked high and low all around the camp site, but finally gave up searching.
Two days later we were taking a hike on a trasil that left from the camp ground and about a half mile up the trail, there was our sugarbowl, (minus it's cover and sugar) with a bunch of teeth puncture marks in it.
We still have the sugar bowl that sits proudly on a shelf and is a constant conversation piece with our kids and grandchildren
It would be nice to be able to trust mankind, but what every you do, don't leave any foodstuffs on the table, those masked bandits will rob you blind!
Jack L
We have been camping all our lives and never have had a thing stolen.
I have to take that back: Many years ago while tent camping, with our kids in a beautiful national forest camp ground in the mountains of New Hampshire, inadvertently we left a Tupperware sugar bowl on the picnic table overnight.
In the middle of the night we heard the snarls and growls of the
"masked bandits" and needless to say the sugar bowl was gone in the morning.
We looked high and low all around the camp site, but finally gave up searching.
Two days later we were taking a hike on a trasil that left from the camp ground and about a half mile up the trail, there was our sugarbowl, (minus it's cover and sugar) with a bunch of teeth puncture marks in it.
We still have the sugar bowl that sits proudly on a shelf and is a constant conversation piece with our kids and grandchildren
It would be nice to be able to trust mankind, but what every you do, don't leave any foodstuffs on the table, those masked bandits will rob you blind!
Jack L
