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You were genuinally interested in the opinions of others and that showed. Sometimes the written word can come across more harshly than intended in posts.

No one is going to mind you asking for opinions or advice.

Happy camping- no need to give up on the site.

I dont go in for any type of tent security and think that people get carried away talking about locking tents and putting bells on the zips and fitting mobile alarms

I dont keep anything in the tent worth stealing and if any sad pikey wants to steal what I do take then they are welcome to it

Haven't seen the pound shop motion detector Alarms for a while. Having said that saw one of those pound shop croaking frogs other weekend. 

I remember poundland use to do three shed/cupboard  alarms for a quid.

Few years back Lidl and Aldi use to do a battery powered motion detector alarm that had a key fob for on and off.

Nothing wrong in people being pro-active in my own opinion.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MOTION-SENSOR-ALARM-GARAGE-REMOTE/dp/B000TR9OT2

Hi - glad you feel your suggestion got a good airing and I hope you have enjoyed the debate!

In nearly 30 years of camping | have never had a single item pinched; I think camping is one of the few areas of social life where some old fashioned levels of trust can still be found, as long as you stick to some commonsense rules, like keeping valuables locked in the car, don't take anything on hol that is irreplaceably valuable to you, and don't lock the tent zip as that is an absolute no-no from a fire safety point of view.

You will find that camping on reputable sites ( for which the reviews on here are great) means that neighborus look out for each other. We have even had washing brought in for us when the rain started whilst we were off on as trip!

Must agree with you there Foggers,never had anything pinched even when  we were invaded by ..ahem.....travelling folks on a site we have used many a time, never did anything disappear from our tent or surrounding area, it fact one of the guys came over to ask us if we would like  some of the fish he had caught that day for our BBQ and then left payment for their pitch with us as they were leaving too early in the morning for to pay the owner.

Now thats campers looking out for one and other

One or two thoughts to maybe ponder for all.

1. For every rise of 10db (A) the volume of loudness increase by 100% i.e. doubles.

2. A rock concert is deemed to generate 120db (A). This alarm is twice as loud?!

3. 10m away from a jet engine is said to generate 150db (A).

4. Is a gadget costing less than £10 capable of producing such a devasting sound?

5 Possibly more to the point, if this thing was to go off whilst you were out could you expect anything else other than to find your tent sliced to pieces and the demonic box smashed to pieces upon your return and a large group of deeply p1ssed off campers wishing a word in your shell like?

As I say, just a few thoughts.

 OH had rather nice board shorts nicked off the washing line when we were camping in France and friend had wetsuit nicked from site in Wales, both from outside tent though! Definitey oportunistic theft as had expensive bikes, surf and body boards outside too and cooker and BBQ live outside. Prefer to think the best of folk and take a chance

IF THEY WANT TO GET IN YOUT TENT THEY WIILL DO WHATEVER YOU DO. WE CAME BACK FROM ABROAD RECENTLY AT A LOVELY SMALL FAMILY SITE.   WHILST OUT , SOMEONE CUT THROUGH A TEN FOOT HIGH WIRE FENCE , THEN THROUGH A THICK BAMBOO FENCE TO GET TO OUR TENT. THEY THEN SLASHED THROUGH THE BBEDROOM AREA AND GOT IN.

Quote: Originally posted by AngelicMinx on 07/8/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by Skatty on 07/8/2008

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The day I consider the need to use something like that ,tis the day I decided to stop camping

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Me too !

Just a thought......

How many times have any of us been p***ed off when a car alarm goes off during the night?

Remove the brick walls, replace with canvas and change the car alarm to a tent alarm......

Not a great idea IMHO

Angie

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Quote: Originally posted by Bolan on 08/8/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by Bri and Fiona on 08/8/2008

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I originally posted this to get views of other campers and it appears they would not be welcome. Job done. Is it not what we use this site for to gain info and opinions on things we are unsure of.

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I hope you don't feel that you have to justify your post, it is a good and helpful subject particularly for new campers who may think as you did.  Also it has helped you reach a good decission, you could easily have gone and bought these thinking it was the right thing to do and end up feeling bad after them going off and annoying fellow campers.

 

 

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I'm a new camper (not even picked up the tent yet!) and I'm also a Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator for my street, (licence to twitch curtains my hubby says!) so I was interested in what to do (if anything) about security. Now i know!

Nicky

Quote: Originally posted by TallBigMe on 08/8/2008

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saw one of those pound shop croaking frogs other weekend. 

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i have a wooden croaking frog that i was given years ago. Hadn't thought to use it as an alarm.  I am not sure it would make more noise than the horses that try and get into your tent in the new forest though :(