Pitch privacy
Just on Burrs Country Park and a guy walks right by our window shortcutting across our pitch. No respect for other people's space and too bone idle to walk the extra few metres to their own van. Seeing more and more of this all the time
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Next time he does it fling your window open and try to hit him with it.
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Wait until he goes to bed. Select some totally inconsequential item from your junk box. Go to his 'van and knock loudly on the door. When you get a reply produce the item and ask if it is his as you found it on the ground where he passed over your pitch earlier.
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You need a dog, tethered outside. Failing that, fishing line catches the night marauder!
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we have a two for one on this topic.
Not here!
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take a short cut (possibly to nowhere...) across the middle of his pitch, ensure theyre in the van first....
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Or you could just-'not let it stress you' it's a small area you rent for a while, it isn't your garden or your property even. I was on a corner plot in Scotland & most folk cut the corner on their way to the showers, I got talking to a lot of folk on that trip, most C&MC like
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PS-I wouldn't go down the violence route to be honest. I doubt a judge would accept a mitigating plea of-'but your honour the person stood on my rented piece of grass' as a reason for assault
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On a corner pitch recently we noticed someone had put out a strategically placed tub of water....you either had to have the nerve to walk between it and the van or go round the outside. It seemed to work, no-one attempted either route, they kept to the path. It probably worked even better in the dark.
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Where ever you go, if some think there is a shorter route route they will take it,,without thought for others ,we were at Clumber Park and that happened to us,until we tethered our dog outside,and if any one knows the site it is very open,in places without the need to walk close to c/vans,at Ferry Meadows we parked our car in front of a gap in the hedge to stop the same thing
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We put our windbreaks across our pitch at the back of the caravan when we stayed at Hebden Bridge. One person who walked her dog continually walked between our car and the caravan but after putting our windbreaks up she cut through next door. What amazes me is that she was fit to walk the dog but the last few metres she could not manage to walk, so hence cut through. This happens more and more. We would never dream if cutting through someone's pitch if occupied.
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happens to me a lot too there has been lots of threads about it my little camper only takes up half a pitch so folk walk through it all the time the worst thing was last Aug bank hol when I was at west Ayton I'm on a pitch at the end or a row behind the toilet block it's a small pitch not suitable for caravans as there isn't much room to manoeuvre as it's tight when a car came up turned round on my pitch and the lady passenger threw a light cigarette end onto my pitch ,needless to say I went straight to the warden to complain ,
folk are just getting lazy no wonder they keep saying on the news that people are getting obese !!
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You are telling porkies M!
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Even with a hedge or fence at the back, this can still be a problem.
Have seen people cut across the front of our pitch, almost brushing against the front corner of the caravan, making a bee-line for their door.
It's almost as though they are drawn to their door and all else (such as good manners) just goes out of their mind.
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One can buy from the Internet very realistic plastic copies, TDL!
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Have to say its something that really annoys me when it happens but it must be a British thing.
When we are on the continent they all cut across each other's pitches but no one seems to be bothered by it at all. When on one site in Spain we were talking to a couple from Holland and the subject came up. They couldn't understand why Brits get so worked up about it, but then they can't understand why when they park their car on your pitch you get upset too.
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This reminds me of a scene my wife and I witnessed a few years ago whilst motorhoming in Scotland. We had pitched for the night and were studying others through our window whilst enjoying dinner when a couple pulled their caravan outfit onto a pitch across the drive. The very first action the undertook was the careful placing of four garden gnomes, one on each corner of the pitch. These were quickly followed a number of plastic laurel bushes carefully spaced between the gnomes, only then did the setting up of the van commenced.
Having read the OP I can now understand the possible logic behind it.
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,so it might be best if he kept to the path!!!
