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there is no practical way to keep it safe (unless Reading/Leeds offers lock-ups as Glastonbury does where it can be kept safe?).

Padlocking your tent will not keep it safer than not padlocking your tent - but it would mean that you'd also have a ruined tent (because it'll get slashed) as well as having lost your beer if some scumbag comes round on the rob.

The number one festival rule applies to beer no less than it does anything else: don't take anything you cannot afford to lose.

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The scumbags are more than likely going to be stealing money more than anything else they couldn't give a crap about beer. The best thing to do is leave it in your tent, if you get too pissed and leave it outside some opportunistic people will help themselves to a can whilst passing by.

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Yeah it's pretty unlikely that thieves will steal beers. There isn't much resale value in a crate of beer.

If you're really quite worried about it though, empty the crates out into your tent and have a stack of cans or something. Prospective thieves wouldn't stick around picking up 80 cans one by one.

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I like the strongbow dark fruits, it's definitely one of those far too easy to drink ciders though.

On the subject of padlocks, I padlocked my tent when I first went to festivals but certainly wouldn't bother these days. Just entices people towards your tent thinking there's stuff worth nicking

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Yeah just make sure to keep your beer deep in your tent so it isn't visible, then it's unlikely anyone will bother to take it. And don't take any valuables at all, if you have your phone, keys, wallet etc. just put them in the bottom of your sleeping bag, buried in some clothes or something.

My mate last year took his iPad and he wouldn't have heard the end of it if he'd had it stolen, absolutely stupid thing to do

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Yeah just make sure to keep your beer deep in your tent so it isn't visible, then it's unlikely anyone will bother to take it. And don't take any valuables at all, if you have your phone, keys, wallet etc. just put them in the bottom of your sleeping bag, buried in some clothes or something.

My mate last year took his iPad and he wouldn't have heard the end of it if he'd had it stolen, absolutely stupid thing to do

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