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31/7/2009 at 10:13pm
 Location: Leics
 Outfit: Melinda folding caravan Picasso 2.0Hdi
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Ooooooh dear, after reading another thread RE Naughty shops, I just couldn't holdout any longer and went for a drive to Go outdoors (it's only a few mins drive 17) I knew it was a bad move as I would end up with something....anyway we get there and my daughter starts gasping...she said..'that tent's got a HUGE hole in it'...I thought yeah yeah it's prob a door open....but I was wrong 17  We wandered round a few on one side of the showground...nothing much doing, then went over to the other side and noticed loads of the tents were ripped/torn/cut. Not just a simple slits either. There was an outwell hartford XL in pieces, one side was almost completely missing 17 along with other tents that were 'slit'. I went inside and asked a worker what was going on, she said 'Oh it was maybe the weather, with it being wet/dry/wet/dry etc...I just looked at her and said, they look like they have been cut, she replied, well yeah that's what we thought, we got the police involved...I left the shop wondering why on earth would anyone do that? Are they really THAT bored?? I mean c'mon...thats a fair few quids worth of tents unsellable.

On a brighter note, the Bear Lake 6 wasn't cut, and I enjoyed a rather pleasnat 20 mins in it planning my kit out 17 how sad

 



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31/7/2009 at 10:32pm
 Location: Hull
 Outfit: coleman weathermaster xl
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I just took your tent tour, that is huge!

Well some people have no respect for othe peoples things, they think cos its in a shop its a victimless crime.

On the ligher note, what did you buy??



31/7/2009 at 11:30pm
 Location: Cheshire
 Outfit: Gelert Horizon 6
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Had people cut pieces out of them to use as repair patches do you think?


31/7/2009 at 11:41pm
 Location: Coventry
 Outfit: Cabanon Elody & Julie & Combicamp
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Sounds like the behaviour of vandals 17 I just can't understand what kind of kick they get out of this sort of thing.

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31/7/2009 at 11:42pm
 Location: Leicester
 Outfit: Vango Centara 600 Airbeam + Excel awn
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yeah the Luggiebrah store tents display is looking well haggared.. its doesnt help that 80% of them are HiGear.


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01/8/2009 at 12:01am
 Location: None Entered
 Outfit: Bell tent & lavvu & Coleman Avior X2
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A lot of nylon/poly display tents are probably at the end of their life now, what with having spent a few weeks in the sun, then wind and rain. I've got a cheap tarp (made from that sort of tent maerial I guess) over my mower in the back garden and it has literally just disintegrated over the past couple of weeks. Only been over the mower since May, but the sun and wind and rain have killed it. Good reason to NOT buy ex-display tents!


01/8/2009 at 12:06am
 Location: Derby
 Outfit: None Entered
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saw the same display today , if it is vandals then its just mindless



01/8/2009 at 2:17am
 Location: wales united kingdom
 Outfit: terra nova.eureka.quechua.Hennessy
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I can't believe such behaviour exists,especially over a tent.It is ridiculous to think people deliberatly stroll around destroying tents.I hope they get caught.

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01/8/2009 at 8:04am
 Location: Leicester
 Outfit: Vango Centara 600 Airbeam + Excel awn
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Quote: Originally posted by unjin1 on 01/8/2009

saw the same display today , if it is vandals then its just mindless





I don't think its vandals, well not most of the time anyway, some of those tents have been up for a long time.. the damage to the Orchy is the seam has come away from the door zip...

yes some people when looking around the displays will not treat them as if there own but as for out and out vandalism I would say it is minimal.


01/8/2009 at 8:58am
 Location: Bristol
 Outfit: Wynnster Eagle 6
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Funnily enough my Hubby and daughter went to go outdoors in Bristol yesterday and said exactly the same, that nearly all the tents looked like they had been slashed with something!

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01/8/2009 at 9:29am
 Location: Lancashire
 Outfit: Swift Challenger (and down to 3 tents)
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I was looking at the tents in a camping shop in Haslingden a few weeks ago and saw an Outwell Vermont with slashes on the roof above the sleeping compartments.  They also said it was the weather until they looked more closely. These were clean one-two inch cuts. Totally wrecked the tent.



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