Oh goody, let's have a party drug spray thread
Well you asked for it! Below is a rough google translation from an Italian newsletter I received. I know that when I first heard about this that I thought it was preposterous. Anyway, just putting the information out there for now..
ABOARD robbed the motorhome
AFTER BEING WITH A drugged sleeping gas
The latest incident dates back to July 7, 2016 but over the years other campers on the road have suffered in several European countries a robbery aboard the motorhome after they were first put to sleep with sleeping gas.
Offenders use a canister-based ether, which was on sale at auto parts as "starter": a product that was used to start diesel engines, but that seems to be still found in former East countries.
The last report concerns a province of Trento family parked next to a restaurant on a service area to a hundred kilometers from Marseille. They were robbed of three bags containing two cameras, keys, wallet, money, credit cards and documents. It seems that the criminals have used to enter the cockpit door on the side of driving.
Lack of knowledge of the French language has hindered not just these unfortunate campers in extricate themselves from the situation; also they could not count on a slightest help of Gendarmerie, which merely suggest a superfluous advice: contact relatives or friends to send off the money from Italy. Only the help of an Italian family on vacation has allowed them to be able to return, allowing you to use the phone and paying the money to pay for fuel and tolls. Besides the ruined holiday, it was added the fear for what might have happened if they had woken up during the robbery.
To complete the information we have to report that as a result of our email containing this document, the campers have written that you can not sleep all those who sleep in un'autocaravan. We replied that, to date, no technical challenged us in writing that the product containing ether using offenders have no effect when it is placed in an environment of a few cubic meters, where everyone breathes and there is not an adequate air exchange as happens in motor homes. Unfortunately, the reports we have received over the years and many received lately and which refer suffered made in several European countries, leave no doubt about the "success" of that product.
We hope to be "disowned" but invited those who say you that you can not fall asleep in the sleeper un'autocaravan to write, sending the relative technical documentation.
WHAT TO DO?
Do not sleep, but prevent, following our advice
For years, we write what to do to avoid and / or overcome the theft when traveling in motor homes. Many, however, to save a few Euros, or by following the wrong philosophy ... so to me it will never happen,
· Not install the gas detector including gas opiates (eg the Triogas Multicontrol useful also in the case of internal gas leaks that may prove fatal),
· Do not install a full perimeter alarm,
· Do not subscribe to an appropriate
insurance policy.
On this topic we have given information from page 68 to page 77 of InCamper 155 (magazine downloadable
InCamper - ANCC - info@coordinamentocamperisti.it opening and entering 155 in the field NUMBER SEARCH).
Also in the number of 165 InCamper magazine (magazine downloadable
InCamper - ANCC - info@coordinamentocamperisti.it opening and entering 165 in the field NUMBER SEARCH) have provided useful information to avoid nasty surprises.
By our associates arriving tips "do-it-yourself" to increase the safety of our dreams.
Before going to bed connected with a steel cord and / or belt in the doors front and then
close the poles to slide you have obviously installed before with rivets and / or screws and / or chemical bonding, on any income all'autocaravan (main gate, lockers, windows and portholes).
We will post again in the November-December 2016, completing the article with useful information to set "safe" our important documents before departure.
1. Fotocopiandoli.
2. sending them to their email because, if necessary, can be accessed from any internet point and download them.
3. By saving on USB stick with program to encrypt data (such as scandisk secure access).
4. By saving on USB key in which you can install programs that perform data encryption with passwords (eg usbsafeguard, true crypt).
5. By saving cloud, with different security levels with login and password but also with dispatch of temporary codes on your phone.
Essential to remember passwords. Deprecated passwords in zip files or rar, because they often are "opening" with simple programs.
THEY WROTE ON GAS LEAK DETECTORS
Http://www.abc.brianzaest.it/articoli_tecnici/trio_gas.html found on the internet and we thank Giorgio Basani of Gio 'Camper (Monza dealer who unfortunately had to leave the industry). The text: Trio Gas Multicontrol that is able to detect three different types of gases that are the LPG, the carbon oxide produced by the combustion and the gas soporific as the ether and all its derivatives. This new detector model has two distinctive features can be built into a mobile, leaving exposed only the control panel, and can be fitted by a minimum of one to a maximum of three external probes, to be chosen, so as to cover the largest area possible. Alternatively, there is also a model called from outside because applied to inside wall of the motor caravan; It occupies little more space than a packet of cigarettes and for its installation does not require a great skill just because two wires to connect it with 12 volts. About what we point out that the power of the Trio Gas is directly withdrawn from the
battery, by inserting an appropriate
fuse, and avoiding, for convenience, connecting it to the nearest point on the electrical system. This rule must be observed as these instruments are very sensitive and can not function properly as a result, for example, connection to the campsite network: the charger of the medium, in fact, could issue the order in the system disorder that may impact the gas detector. In the case of correct connection that will not happen because the
battery will make the "buffer" function. To conclude: in the market there are different brands and models of detectors and they all perform the same function (or at least should). It is certain that a gas detector with multiple external probes will always be more reliable than one with a single probe for more positioned in its interior.
Until we found the hole, John thought he had maybe forgotten to lock the door!!!! It was after that when John actually came up with the above idea and decided that 'yes, we could get token into and I wasn't worrying for nothing'.
