Outside camping lights
Campers, Please turn off your outside lights when you go to bed as a courtesy to other campers who would like to sleep with the windows open.
Forum Discussion
Mr.Beebo wrote:It's not a matter of the thieves being able to see the stuff; they've already scoped it out in the daylight, and a small flashlight will prevent them from "bumping around". The porchlight simply means that they will be in plain view to anyone in the area when they are trying to steal stuff rather than being hidden under the cover of darkness. Scarelights, on the other hand, are just way over the top, IMHO. How much of an effect the porchlight will have is debatable, granted, but it WILL deter crime. Just as streetlights deter crime; thieves/criminals don't like being lit up.
Leaving porch/scare lights on all night isn't a deterrent to crime any more than posting a "no guns allowed" in a business keeps out the armed robbers.
If it makes you feel better, good for you, but lighting up your camp site is an advertisement. If they can't see at midnight what they saw at noon you will likely hear them bumping around and be alerted. Just sayin...
