Oh sorry wrong tent!

[Lucanesque]

f**kin Hell your all a bit serious in this post....plus a bit violent...

[RoyC]

The only defence is to plead self defence (or defence of another if you are sharing your sleeping bag) in this case, and assuming they didn't hit you first you can refer to R v Bird, which basically says you don't have to have been hit first to claim self defence if you are acting immediately to a credible threat to your person.

[APC]

Give a man a burger and he'll feed himself for f**kall time.

Give me a tent thief on Wednesday, and I eat well for a whole week.

[Lucanesque]

Also known as the Gerrard defence.

[APC]

And at the risk of sounding crap, like manz said already blud yergetme, tent theives will usually be out in teams so any acts of heroism will often be met by horrific multiple opponent assault. This is why I will stab them in their throat so they can't scream "KEVVVVVVVVVVVVVV"*

Edited June 11, 2010 by APC

[APC]

*Wayne's name has been changed to protect his identity.

[cowmadiddy]

I've got a 9 man tent that we share, not had any issues with it on a few festivals, I'm assuming the thieves aren't interested due to the higher likelyhood of someone being there awake, although generally it's in such a mess that you can lose whole people under all the crap never mind wherever I've left my wallet.

[cowmadiddy]

!

Edited June 11, 2010 by cowmadiddy

[sparklefish]

We had our tent robbed last year and I'm quite nervous about it happening again this year.

I always, always sleep with any valuables (camera, phone, wallet) in my sleeping bag but me and my husband got spectacularly drunk on thursday last year and i didn't hide my stuff. I know my wallet was tucked under my mattress by my head but no idea where my camera was.

They went through all the stuff in the porch and then came in the bedroom bit and went through all our clothes and my bag. They got my wallet and camera. Luckily we had split our cash.

The worst bit is the thought of someone being that close to us and sleeping through it. : (

I did get my wallet back a couple of weeks later still with debit card and driving licence and then in october got my camera back too!!

[markeee]

totally sucks that there are groups of people who go with the sole purpose of stealing others belongings from their tents while they're out enjoying themselves/sleeping

hopefully this year, we can hope none of those types managed to get a ticket!!

[dibbul]

Fill your porch with stuff. That's what we did. Chairs, wellies, bin liners, etc. Make wall of shite for them to climb over if they really want in.

[muddyslingbax]

found this whilst googling 'man traps'

Edited June 12, 2010 by muddyslingbax

[Funky Jim]

Not ever had a problem myself, but last year a mate had a box of wine stolen from their tent, not while they were in it thankfully!

It's right that most the thieving scum work in gangs, not wanting to make us all paranoid, but I know there have been cases in the past where security have been in on it too

[obeque]

I naively didnt think this was such a problem at glasto as it is elsewhere Ive never had a problem but if it becomes one I'll just hide behind my son he's a green belt, being only six might be a hinderance tho.

[CrispyRed]

This thread has made me totally and utterly paranoid now

[sprocketrocket]

I've never had a problem.... last year two girls tried getting into our tent but that was a genuine mistake. We heard them outside discussing it and one was saying "I don't think its this one" and the other was insistent that it was. Then despite us telling them "its not this one" the insistent girl still tried getting in....

[sprocketrocket]

Oh as far as theft goes. Don't take anything valuable. that way you won't lose it (most likely) or have it stolen, (which is rare).

[mcdrewson]

Although a slight hassle, the times I've no camped with crew, I've just put everything back in my rucksack and left it in the lock-up. That way, there's nothing to worry about. I take a small rucksack which I can stick a few clothes in and my sleeping bag, pick that up when finished partying and take back to tent. I realise this isn't always possible if you have loads of beer etc, but found it works for me. I've ordered a SIM card yesterday which I'm going to stick in a old phone for the weekend to avoid bringing iphone.

Saying that, on the Tues night of 98 some bugger nicked our pegs! we also had a 'sorry, wrong tent' which was a poor excuse as there were only a few tents in our area. Still, it is a worry but if we're all vigilant let's hope we can minimise it as much as poss.

[Topless Skateboarding Nun]

i see a few people saying they got thier lager stolen. Cant do much about the boxes of wine but on the lager side of things...just make sure all the cans are seperate and uve left no bags lying about...they cant be arse to start looking for bags they are only interested in carrying crates off. so seperate cans it a chore for them!

[iammyowngiraffe]

didn't the police put up fake tents last year in an attempt to catch people or did i dream this?

[choo choos]

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The dead can't lie.

My rucksack got stolen last year along with a few cans of ale. It was Monday afternoon so it could feasibly have been abandoned, but getting all my stuff back to the car in a bin bag wasn't fun.

I've been that guy trying to get in the wrong tent so I know how easy it is. Luckily it was the tent next to mine at Cambridge last year, so I could at least apologise to the bloke in the morning. He was very good about it, but I wouldn't have blamed him for smack in the face.

[Spindles]

didn't the police put up fake tents last year in an attempt to catch people or did i dream this?

[YetAnotherOldHippy]

Lock-ups!

If there's no large sums of cash or expensive phones/mp3 players to grab easily first two nights they'll move on to other festivals where there are no free Lock-ups!

I must just add Lock-ups once more for anyone that doesn't understand that if you live in a tent any valuables you're carrying are extremely vulnerable.

[mandypants]

didn't the police put up fake tents last year in an attempt to catch people or did i dream this?

[vickypopz]

Had this at Leeds last year - crap ending to the summer really. Thankfully I woke up to someone in our porch and screamed which woke my fella up who went after them ( in socks, v attractive lol!) it has crossed my mind that it could happen again & will be more vigilent. I'll be taking some clip on purse bells that the local crime prevention panel gave out at Xmas to give us a heads up of anyone fiddling the zip. Other than that I tend to keep everything in my backpack & use it as a pillow and loop my arm through it too for added security.