A quick get away and all that
The advice on having to get away quickly or park facing OUT of a spot, is just sound precautionary advice. You just may have to scarper if you are threatened, just don`t feel safe, the vibes all wrong or asked to move. So be like the boy scouts and girl guides, PREPARED.
Whilst inside we keep all doors locked, sleep with the mobile phone, (make sure you can get a signal before you park up) and torch within easy reach on or down the side of the bed, and keys under the pillow. DON`T get out of the vehicle, if things happen, just make sure you can get the keys in the ignition, for quick lift off, and get on your way, avoiding killing anything.
Yes, you do get a lot of couple cruising vehicles, in car parks and woody spaces. Ayr car park on the front is particularly bad for this. Plus a group of lads on cycles kept driving up and down the front, and dropping their handlebars into the vans, as they passed. A couple of motorhomes were damaged when we were there last year (2011).
Then apart from the couple of crazy kids, that threatened us and threw a fully opened sauce packet at the back window, thinking it was funny, and hooting their horn and flashing their lights at the van, in a car park in Carlisle, at 7.00pm below the walls, (and we did have to move off because they did not let up), we have not been bothered by them, or anyone else and the couple cruisers do go home to mummy and daddy about midnight. So sometimes you have to keep awake until the noise has gone. Then bed down and be off early the next day. :sleep-027:
So folks just be aware that there may be dyfunctional persons,:mad1: who may want to cause chaos and unhappiness, just for their fun... But hopefully incidents are rare, (unless anyone knows differently). It is about being aware.:idea: and alert, the countryside and your van needs lerts.........
If you have a vehicle with an engine in the back, they don`t reverse easily out of boggy places, so reverse in and make sure you park the front wheels on terra firma so you can get out easily. Preferable don`t park on very soft ground.
We do clear any site of rubbish, apart from thinking it looks `orrible, we just don`t want motorhome users blamed more than they are, for things. Have fun.........:fun: