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People Robbing Tent's

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whatmidlifecrisis? Newbie

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Please remember everyone that the chances of thieves coming around your area and robbing tents is still relatively small. What's more the chances of you and your neighbours getting robbed twice is substantially lower.

For this reason I intend to rob all the tents around me on the first night. Not only will this dramatically reduce my chance of getting robbed, but it should also give me a bit of extra spending money.

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A couple of years ago i woke up to find someone in my tent, after a 30 minute discussion along the lines of:

"What you doing in my tent?"

"It's my tent"

"No it's not"

"Yes it is"

<Repeat>

Finally he noticed a can of cider and said "Oh i dont drink cider, i dont think it's my tent"....

Funny looking back on it.

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Craig_G Newbie

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If you're gonna get robbed it'lll be the first couple of nights when you have the most stuff. Keep your wallet/whatever in your sleeping bag while you're asleep and leave nothing in it of value. it's all simples.

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mandypants Newbie

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One thing I've noticed is that whenever someone catches someone in their tent with the "sorry wrong tent" excuse and then just go back to sleep, only to discover in the morning that half their neighbours have been robbed. Is there a number that can be called to alert security to thieves. Alternatively maybe just poke your head out the tent and see if they are genuinely lost or on the rob and then go and alert security.
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challengechappers Newbie

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was robbed in 1995 but not since.

i always take a short piece of that green plastic coated garden wire, about 5cm long - put it through the tent loops and twist it once or twice (both from the inside when i'm in and from the outside when i'm out). makes it a bit slower to get in and out, less visible than a padlock and easier to deal with when i'm pished .... but i firmly believe that slowing down the "entry process" can put off opportunistic thieves (and it helps me sleep better at night).

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KenAdams Newbie

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I've been going for a few years, only since the super-fence, and I've also not had a any problems. My daughter lost her phone two years ago and got that back from the campsite stewards. I've only had personnel experience of two thefts, both in 2002 and one of them was not all it seemed. When I got up on Saturday morning, a teenage couple next to us have had their tent slashed and his wallet was stolen from bottom of their sleeping bag. I don't think the thief cut the sleeping bag, just undid the zip from the bottom.

I would not agree therefore with this recommendation of storing stuff at the bottom of sleeping bags. I do agree with the other advice in this thread about staying safe – it's spot on.

Just after that, another guy, camped next to us reappeared at about 9:30 after having disappeared the day before. He has been mugged and he was very pissed off about it. He is barefoot and all his cash is gone. “They've even taken my shoes, the bastards!” About £200 is missing. Everyone in his group is very sympathetic and feels sorry for him but over the next few hours as he sobers up and his memory returns he has flashbacks about what had happened. He remembered buying a festival hat for £20 and then losing it, then some tee-shirts but giving these away, and a lot of food and drink. About £200 quid all in all we added up. He also then remembered taking off his shoes before he passed out. We didn't feel sorry for him anymore but we did laugh a lot.

I think Glastonbury is safer than a night out in any town in the UK.

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r0cky Newbie

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If you're gonna get robbed it'lll be the first couple of nights when you have the most stuff. Keep your wallet/whatever in your sleeping bag while you're asleep and leave nothing in it of value. it's all simples.
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The only thing i'm worried about is my guitar cos its quite expensive and not exactly easy to hide like money, phone, camera etc. I really want to bring it but scared it might get robbed during the day. Do you think I should use the lock ups? Are they easy to use and what are the queues like?

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The friend I was with was robbed in 2000 but that was still the days of people getting over/through/under the fence so probs tons of scallies. I think it was Sunday morning - not even night time tho probs very early and it was the usual sorry wrong tent and then when he'd gone he realised he'd taken is wallet out of his jeans, turns out it happened to a lot of people in the same area. I was in the tent opposite and could only think at the time that the robber didnt try my tent cos it had a porchy bit so 2 doors to get through and my friend was just in a small single skin dome tent.

this slashing business - are they slashing the bottom of the tent so they dont have to get through the zips and doors or just anywhere to get in? Id be more scared of someone having been in the tent when we're asleep with our son being there.

do the lock-ups tend to get full and they turn people away and are they open 24 hours? presume you get a number or something when you give your stuff over and you can go back to it all through the weekend? fab idea!

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The friend I was with was robbed in 2000 but that was still the days of people getting over/through/under the fence so probs tons of scallies. I think it was Sunday morning - not even night time tho probs very early and it was the usual sorry wrong tent and then when he'd gone he realised he'd taken is wallet out of his jeans, turns out it happened to a lot of people in the same area. I was in the tent opposite and could only think at the time that the robber didnt try my tent cos it had a porchy bit so 2 doors to get through and my friend was just in a small single skin dome tent.

this slashing business - are they slashing the bottom of the tent so they dont have to get through the zips and doors or just anywhere to get in? Id be more scared of someone having been in the tent when we're asleep with our son being there.

do the lock-ups tend to get full and they turn people away and are they open 24 hours? presume you get a number or something when you give your stuff over and you can go back to it all through the weekend? fab idea!

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The only thing i'm worried about is my guitar cos its quite expensive and not exactly easy to hide like money, phone, camera etc. I really want to bring it but scared it might get robbed during the day. Do you think I should use the lock ups? Are they easy to use and what are the queues like?
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this slashing business - are they slashing the bottom of the tent so they dont have to get through the zips and doors or just anywhere to get in? Id be more scared of someone having been in the tent when we're asleep with our son being there.
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ben dover Newbie

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We were robbed Wednesday night two years ago!!

Went through my pockets at the side of my campbed and i never heard a thing.

Took money and left everything else - cards, mobile, special tobacco(which i was really suprised at)

It never spoiled my Fest as much as it could have.

The money isn't the issue - Car could blow tomorrow and you are looking at funny money in an instant. It s the invasion of your space thing.

Eyes wide open now though and the cash will be minimal and well hiddden.

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