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View Poll Results: Have you ever had a theft at a campground
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02-25-2021, 10:05 AM
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#15
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Never had anything stolen. I have a 25' long thick cable and l lock anything of value with it. Again, never had a problem.
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Leesburg, FL '07 American Tradition 40Z Cummins 400 ISL
Towing a '14 Honda CRV Both sold
2021 Vanleigh Beacon 41LKB 5th wheel
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02-25-2021, 01:02 PM
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#16
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 323
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We had a neighbor at a campground with a beautiful custom cage around their generator. They were rightly proud of it. They had a previous generator stolen so they took extra measures to protect their new one including an alarm.
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02-25-2021, 01:13 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Bend,or
Posts: 471
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At our last stop in Mesa, AZ we had a neighbor warn us their Rad Ebikes were just stolen and were locked up.
I added a few extra locks to our ebikes but that's the extent of our security.
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02-25-2021, 01:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2021
Posts: 515
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The point of most security is to make your stuff harder to steal then your neighbor's.
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02-25-2021, 01:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 3,009
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Had a safety chain and quick link for the tow dolly stolen from the back of my coach. Guess they only needed one.
Had a racoon steal food out of a cooler. He did NOT want to be shooed off. I preferred him to get the food rather than me to get rabies.[emoji15]
I do chain and lock my Progressive surge protector to the pedestal.
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02-25-2021, 01:50 PM
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#20
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Hot Springs, VA
Posts: 1,997
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I stole some half burnt left over fire wood from a site, but only after they left. Oh and I'm pretty sure he said, "you can have my firewood that I'm leaving".
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2018 GMC 3500 HD Sierra Denali Durmax Diesel DRW CC LB 4x4
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02-25-2021, 02:28 PM
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"Formerly Diplomat Don"
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Moorpark, Ca.
Posts: 24,125
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I've never had anything stolen since we first started RVing, back in the 70's. On one occasion, about 1:00am, I was relaxing in a chair after a long drive and campsite setup and saw two juveniles grab a combo tent and sleeping bag setup from our friend's campsite.
They took off across a grassy field and I was able to run them down. I grabbed the stolen property and they took off. It wasn't worth trying to detain them.
The next day, I was able to identify them as a couple of kids that lived in the adjacent, permanent resident, trailer park. They had stolen beer and someone's CD's that night. They were both arrested.
Other than that one occasion, over a few thousand nights of camping, that was the only incident. I do lock things up at night, no matter where we camp. I will leave our two chairs and table out, unsecured.
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Don & Mary
2019 Newmar Dutch Star 4018 (Freightliner)
2019 Ford Raptor
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02-25-2021, 02:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Lansing MI
Posts: 2,825
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hohenwald48
I assume you want us to vote based on actual personal experience and not what we've "heard"?
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Yes, actual experience. We've all heard the stories, I'm just trying to figure out how prevalent they really are.
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02-25-2021, 03:17 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Bryan, TX when not traveling.
Posts: 22,948
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Never had anything stolen, but we do not provide the opportunity for a thief. Anything od value is out of sight or locked to the trailer with cable locks. If a thief really wants the stuff, they will still stela it.
Ken
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02-25-2021, 03:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 613
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Twice. First time was at the KOA in Metairie La. They stole a Thermacell out of one of my compartments.
Probably a drug head cause they threw it down on the ground just before they got to their hole in the fence. My fault, should have locked the compartment.
Second time at a RV park in Houston. I left my propane burner out behind my rig overnight.
Probably a drug head again but my fault. It should have been locked up.
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02-25-2021, 03:47 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 134
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2010, west side of Colorado Springs in a campground. I told the manager that we would be gone two nights to ride the Durango-Silverton train. We arrived back at night and cranked up the next day mid-morning. North of Denver I noticed I was very low on fuel. After refueling and doing some simple math I realized that someone had siphoned over 100 gallons of diesel.
Diesel was way over $4 a gallon that year so it was an expensive campground stay.
Davy
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02-25-2021, 05:10 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: NY State
Posts: 3,088
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A friend camping on an adjacent campsite had, of all things, his towel stolen while he was in the campground shower. I guess the thief liked Pink Floyd. We ourselves have never had anything stolen, and except for this one incident, neither has anyone we've camped with while we shared a campground, in 40+ years.
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1976 Southwind 28', '96 Winnie 34WK,
2006 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40QDP
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02-25-2021, 05:37 PM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 39
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Tent camping at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, in the 1990s. We had put the Coleman stove in the tent and went for a hike. We got back, the tent zipper was up about 8" and the connector from the propane bottle to the stove was gone. No way to replace it and no way to cook, we had just gotten there and we spent the rest of our vacation driving around a couple of states trying to get a replacement. Park ranger said it was likely an employee because they always got a couple of bad ones every year. Since then, that stuff locked in the car. Trailer camping, either it was overnight and nothing left out or week-long stays at fairly out of the way places, no problems; 2012-2016.
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02-25-2021, 05:38 PM
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#28
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 474
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Squirrels got a package of Oreos we forgot to put away!
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