AprilWhine
Aug 04, 2013Explorer
No Privacy?
I don't normally use the campground showers, but today my friend and I went to the bath house to do hair highlights. While we were both in the shower, a woman with a boy who appeared to be about 12 ca...
DiskDoctr wrote:Ho contrare, little Grasshopper. I never said I would prevent them from calling the police, I just said if they did for an issue such as was described, I would be asking them to leave. They are creating a disturbance, as far as I am concerned, by calling the police for a matter that is obviously not criminal in nature. The same would be true if someone called the police because they saw a dog off leash, if they thought someone was being too loud, if they though a campfire was too smokey, if they saw someone riding around in their vehicle without seatbelt on or whatever. We have offices and management in the parks for a reason. They are where you should take complaints like the one described in this thread. You don't call the police reflexively and skip over the management. When that happens I will take action to protect my guests and my parks' reputations. Thankfully most people are not stupid enough to whip out their phones and dial 911 for every minor transgression they see. The innkeeeper laws give me great latitude in what I allow and do not allow in the park. But if I draw the black pea and one shows up at my parks, they won't be there for long.westernrvparkowner wrote:TyroneandGladys wrote:westernrvparkowner wrote:TyroneandGladys wrote:Let me put it another way. If you call the police on something as minor as this (and it really is a minor incident, unless there is a whole lot more we are not being told), without first trying to get the park's management to attend to the situation, at our parks you would be asked to leave.westernrvparkowner wrote:TyroneandGladys wrote:While it was probably a mistake by the mother to take her son into the women's restroom, I hardly think it rises to the level requiring police. Maybe the son did have severe problems, in that case a little compassion is needed, the last thing a parent with a severely handicapped child needs is the police being called every time the child makes someone feel uncomfortable. I think the parent was wrong. I think that with a little forethought the entire situation could have been avoided and both sides made happy. But the police aren't the answer here.
IMHO the minute that a 12 year old boy was spotted in the women's shower 911 should have been called and told that there was a young man in the showers and let them sort it out.
As far as compassion that is why I said let the police sort it out.
If there is a disability no foul if not major wakeup call to kid and the woman who took him in there,
Let me get this straight before anyone in your camp calls the police and they want to make sure that they can stay at your park they need to clear that with you???????????????????
If so please either IM me the name of your park so I can make sure I do not stay there or if you really believe there is nothing wrong with that policy let me know the name of your park here in public viewing
If you are calling the police for things like this, without first trying to get a resolution from the management, yes I am going to toss you. The park doesn't need the entertainment, doesn't need the distraction or the police arriving and questioning guests and doesn't need to earn the reputation of being "the boy who cried wolf" park in the unlikely event we ever really do need police assistance. There are ways to handle things, and channels people should take to get issues resolved. Calling the cops because there is a boy in the women's restroom with one of their parents is an extreme over-reaction.
You may wish to seriously reconsider your position.
1. You have NO AUTHORITY to tell anyone they cannot call the police any time they feel harassed, endangered, or been a victim or witness of a CRIME.
2. You have NO AUTHORITY to investigate, prosecute, decide upon, or do anything else other than STOP a crime you PERSONALLY WITNESS.
3. Preventing anyone access to police under threat, emergency or not, could have very serious civil and even criminal repercussions.
I won't even begin to mention all the LIABILITY you could face by denying anyone access to police services by this kind of threat to "toss them"
Police are trained to prioritize and investigate crimes and violations of the law. YOU are NOT trained and authorized to do so. In fact, in many areas, by attempting to do so, YOU could be charged with a crime yourself.
Hopefully, you are simply posting more of your "internet bravado" and never intend to actually take the kind of action you propose. Doing so could be so disastrous, that SOMEONE ELSE could end up owning all your "parks"