RV Boondocking on city streets - where is it legal?

Hi,

How about answering the questions myself and others have posed to you?

I was going to clarify that the shotgun comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but the more I though about it, the more I realize it is pretty close to true. If a stranger was parked in front of my home, I absolutely would confront them, and I probably would be carrying a weapon, which is totally legal. I am on my property, and as long as I didn't directly aim it at someone, I am totally within the law. Since I am not an idiot, I would know if someone was hiding inside. I would bang on the rig loudly and frequently, along with informing the cretins inside that it is in their best interest to move and move very quickly. The police would be called and I am 100% sure they would be on my side, parking laws be damned. Since I would swear to the officer that I know someone is inside, if you didn't answer the door, the officer would be duty bound to enter the rig to perform an emergency welfare check. When they find you alive and well, your troubles will have just begun. You could be cited for failure to comply with a lawful police order and will be a prime candidate to for a search looking for illegal contraband.
It would play out like this in countless neighborhoods and towns everywhere. People are concerned about their safety and the safety of their children. Some weirdos living in an RV are not going to be welcomed in nearly any neighborhood. Stick to the truck stops, the Walmarts,, the rest areas and all the other acceptable free locations.

Only took 3 pages for someone to have to mention pointing a gun at someone.

Hi hershey,

How would you know?

hershey wrote:

I would know the difference, as we all would, between a vagrant RV and one owned by a neighbor or someone visiting a neighbor.

westend wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
This is more a legal/cultural question than anything else. Referring to the neighbours showing up with a shotgun etc. Where I live, pointing a loaded weapon at someone because of where they park is pretty much the end of free life as a citizen. Are there really places where that kind of thing is legal or acceptable? Does it vary state to state. If so which states. Kinda scary. Thanks for the info.

Heads up: Almost everyone in TX is packing heat.:B

I just wanted to stay the night in TX and got in a fire fight in the hood. :B

bigdoggers response was probably a bit of overkill, (excuse the pun). I think we all understand what he was eluding to. If I saw someone parking in front of my home, obviously squatting, I would, as well as my neighbors, be extremely uneasy and I would indeed call the police to have the RV removed.
I would know the difference, as we all would, between a vagrant RV and one owned by a neighbor or someone visiting a neighbor.
Theres a time and place for all RVers....squatting is front of a home is neither.

John & Angela wrote:
This is more a legal/cultural question than anything else. Referring to the neighbours showing up with a shotgun etc. Where I live, pointing a loaded weapon at someone because of where they park is pretty much the end of free life as a citizen. Are there really places where that kind of thing is legal or acceptable? Does it vary state to state. If so which states. Kinda scary. Thanks for the info.

Heads up: Almost everyone in TX is packing heat.:B

caliguy35 wrote:
So where could you sleep in your motorhome on city streets overnight and not get harrassed by the local police department?
I'm planning a nationwide tour by motorhome and would like to know what cities allow RV sreet boondocking.

I know California it's pretty much illegal except maybe in Venice Beach.
I think Tucson, AZ it might be legal.

Im not sure what boondocking means,
if its just stoping to rest overnight,try to arive early and look around where its not only safe but also allowed,,every town has different rules,and folks with welcoming and some also unfriendly atitudes!
I recomend truck stops and WMs.

This is more a legal/cultural question than anything else. Referring to the neighbours showing up with a shotgun etc. Where I live, pointing a loaded weapon at someone because of where they park is pretty much the end of free life as a citizen. Are there really places where that kind of thing is legal or acceptable? Does it vary state to state. If so which states. Kinda scary. Thanks for the info.

I know if you park in my neighborhood, or in front of my place of business you will quickly be visited by the local police, legal or not.
In our neighborhood, we know who should be there and who shouldn't. A vagrant staying in an RV would either ushered out by the police or by one of the residents by the business end of a shotgun. We pay a lot of money for our homes and the security of a good neighborhood, and roadside campers are not part of that deal.
Parking in the business district will earn an equally unfriendly response. Nothing spells potential crime more than people hanging around after business hours. The patrol officers will have you gone long before you enter into REM sleep.

Interesting. Tough talk and all with the shotgun deal. :R You must have a lot of money if own the land your house and business is on AND the public streets and sidewalks. :B And the nerve of those RV'ers and interlopers who don't have your permission to be in your neighborhood!

Now tell me, how are all those police or residents with shotguns going to usher anybody out if they can't find anybody to usher? Or is your police force or residents in the habit of breaking laws?

If they are, I got some news you might want to tell them. My county sheriff tried to pull some funny stuff like that and now my tax dollars has to pay a certain group of people over a million bucks because the sheriff was breaking laws he was paid to uphold.