We visit Bashley often and it's a very common problem there if you are en route to bins/toliet block, we challenge people, and have also set up wind break barricades. It is bad manners!
I don't do it and try not to let my kids but i'm sorry to say that i have had to remind my dh not to do it . He really didn't get it but saw what i meant when kids came accross our pitch and commented on how rude it was. I then pointed out that he is an adult and did it and at least these were kids . Glad to say he now walks along path's and roads and not accross other people's pitches
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I have taught both my boys that its ride to cut across someone elses patch. They now respect this and don't do it. We don't tend to use windbreaks BUT think will have to more and more. We have 2 well behaved dogs who like to sit outside (tethered) and watch world go by....but with people cutting across pitch I worry that they might bark. Whilst it would serve the offenders right, I don't like our girls barking...don't do at home don't do away!!
Camouflaged guy rope strategically placed but even if they were the fluorescent yellow ones with markers on people would still trip over on them when cutting across pitches. Last summer a 'little darling' tried to ride his bike under a guy rope on my tent and nearly decapitated himself, and his parents did not seem too concerned that it was only as a result of his actions that it happened.
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I can't stand it and would definitely challenge anyone walking through my pitch - I am more flexible on less clearly defined pitches & with children though. I have always taught my children not to wander on to anyones pitches and as soon as we are set up and the children want to play I always point out where they can and cannot play. We haven't used our windbreaks since tenting but always carry them with us in case we feel the need to mark out our area as when tenting we did have this issue a couple of times when careful placing of the windbreaks soon sorted it out.
It really really winds me up when someone crosses our pitch,we don't do it so don't expect anyone else to either.We have a dog now and he likes to sit outside and watch the world go by so we don't seem to get many any more.
Had someone walk down the side of our van and hit his head on our open window,didn't laugh honest.
Don't like windbreaks but we have quite a few and do use them
My OH and I are early risers, as is the dog. It's not unusual for us to be up and doing at 4.30/5am in the summer.
We have walked very occasionally across pitches at that time in the am, making sure I'm very quiet and no-one is awake. I don't think I've ever woken anyone up (cue barrage of "Yes you blinkin well have") and I've never taken the dog with me (he would have the whole camping awake! I'd never do it in the daytime (cue barrage of "Why do it at all then?). I think I can count the times I've done it on the fingers of one hand.
We had a whole family and their two dogs walking through our pitch as we were eating outside our campervan and awning. Then to top things off one of the dogs cracked one off in the middle of the pitch whilst the woman was holding the lead.
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We once watched in disbelief as a boy climbed over the guy -ropes and walked on the mud-wall of my parents' awning as he squeezed himself AND HIS BIKE between the awning and my parents' car! We were too shocked by his actions to reprimand the little s**!!
I don't usually get annoyed with people crossing our pitch every so often altho we never do it ourselves. I would be annoyed if they were doing it constantly tho & think I'd have to say something to them.
I've seen someone mark out their pitch like a building site with dayglo orange tell tales and metal spikes before now. Hopefully he's a member of UKCS and recognises himself here. Although he probably isn't....
And I've seen someone else park their caravan and awning - complete with 2 bedroom annexes - sideways along the back of the pitch boundary, and the pair of 4x4s they came in parked on the side boundaries (wrong side of course!) . That certainly stopped people from taking a short cut through their pitch.
But by far the best one I saw was the roll of barbed wire erected by one very seriously irate caravan owner who'd had a whole panful of what I assumed was chip fat sloshed along the front/side corner of his awning by someone who tripped up on the guy line whilst taking a short cut through to the washing up area. Unfortunately, he wasn't allowed to keep it there, and I half expected a 12 bore shotgun to appear next......
I do think it's bad manners and my boys know to go round other units on the paths rather than cut across someone else's pitch.
In theory you have paid for that bit of land for the duration of your stay, so anyone else on it is trespassing - maybe I should sue next time someone does it??!!