Thieving bastards

[Guest blackcockerel]

Anyone else have their money stolen? My wife and I had our wallets taken out of our tents from literally under out faces in our tents while we slept. Luckily I had hidden some money elsewhere just in case but my poor wife lost everything and it was her first ever night there. I hope the f**kers got found and slapped about a bit before being thrown off!

Thank God a very kind lady in Welfare lent us some money and restored our faith in humanity.

[pie_and_a_pint]

I was camped in the Big Ground. The person camping next to me had his money stolen (from his trouser pocket) while he was asleep on Wednesday night. They left his bank cards and although his camera was removed from his tent it was dumped outside and he found it the next morning (fortunately still working). I don't think anyone came into my tent next door - obviously my revoltingly smelly trainers in the porch put them off coming any nearer - in any case my valuables weren't in a stealable place.

When he reported the theft he was told that there had been lots of similar cases, including women having their handbags snatched from under their pillows while they slept. Yet again, the theiving scum seem to have taken advantage of people on Wednesday night being knackered and having a lot of cash on them. I can't overestimate how important it is for people to learn that sleeping with your cash and phones close by isn't safe enough - they need to be far away from you, in a lock up.

Edited June 28, 2010 by pie_and_a_pint

[stevie rayvon]

where abouts were u pitched? We heard there were thefts near Michaels Mead where we were too.

[MrPink]

one of our group had their wallet stolen out of her tent whilst asleep, and another had a 'sorry wrong tent' incident. Didn't hear of anything else, althought the stewards in the dairy ground (where we were camped) said that a fair amount of cash was nicked across the board on wednesday.

[meatyparson]

Free lock ups ! I know hindsight etc etc etc

I dont use them so not preaching and I feel sorry anyone who had the misfortune to have cash/stuff nicked by these thieving shitbags !

I do tend to empty all but £20 from my wallet into my sleeping shorts every night, so if I am that monged that they do visit me and find my wallet then they will probs run with the £20 rather than my fat wadge !

[EasyUserName]

I was curious about this sort of thing this year, so I took a couple of "sample" Blackberry phones I had been given. They are older models (about 18 months) demos, for phone shops to use. They are made using all the same outside parts - even the buttons push in the same way! Same weight and all too! The only way to tell is to try and use them - and then wonder why the image doesn't change on the (very realistic) screen.

I left one under the bed, the other by my head under the clothing there, and they were not even moved. I even left one (face down) uncovered for the Sunday night / Monday - and it still was not touched!

This was in Kidney Mead. Didn't hear anyone else talk about thefts round our way.

[meatyparson]

one of our group had their wallet stolen out of her tent whilst asleep, and another had a 'sorry wrong tent' incident. Didn't hear of anything else, althought the stewards in the dairy ground (where we were camped) said that a fair amount of cash was nicked across the board on wednesday.

[Guest blackcockerel]

We were in Bushy Ground.

[safe]

people we were camped with at kidney mead lost some money on the wednesday night. thieving bastards indeed

[Salt_On_Everything]

I highly recommend people buying one of those money belts... Got one from superdrug for £3.99, and never took it off for the whole festival - there was NO WAY people were gonna manage to get in there without me noticing. Plus, all I took was cash, my bank card, and my front door key, nothing else valuable, which helped...

[**claire**]

We were in Hawkswell & had two 'visitors' on Wednesday night. Luckily I woke up both times - once to hear our tent being unzipped & a man standing there - I guess at about 3am. When he realised I'd woken up he zipped the tent back up & ran off.

The second time was maybe about an hour later, not sure if it was the same guy but he was apprehended by security as he was trying to get into our tent - made some lame excuse about how he thought it was his tent.

I had already put all my valuables in the lock up, but still had a bit of cash & camera etc in the bottom of my sleeping bag - just pleased I woke up!

[CCCheese]

It is sad that some people get robbed and we try our hardest to stop it, but it's a huge site and we can't cover it all 24x7 and I doubt an army of police would be a good thing for glastonbury! The only safe places for cash or valuables is either inside your sleeping bag next to your feet, or in one of the many free, open 24x7, secure lockups on site.

On this note, it's hardly consolation to the guy above who got robbed, but we are getting crime down

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/LocalPages/NewsDetails.aspx?nsid=20795&t=4

[winnets99]

my mate had his airbed and and sleeping bag stolen bizzarely enough

[wainyd]

My mates returned to there camp site on saturday night straight after jamie t, all there tents had been opened and ran sacked, but nothing taken??? they had phones and cameras in there. very strange

[Bobs]

I'm sorry to hear that!

I don't know where i was camped, i think it was the Dance Field, but they were spot on with the protection..

Got up for a whizz in the middle of the night left my tent open (i keep no valubles in anyway), absolutely bladdered, walked the toilet stumbled back to find 3 people going through my tent, and it was security, and i went 'what is this?', then they realised it was my tent, so was pretty sound!

Edited June 28, 2010 by Bobs

[meatyparson]

I'm sorry to hear that!

I don't know where i was camped, i think it was the Dance Field, but they were spot on with the protection..

Got up for a whizz in the middle of the night, absolutely bladdered, walked the toilet stumbled back to find 3 people going through my tent, and it was security, and i went 'what is this?', then they realised it was my tent, so was pretty sound!

[KaleidoscopeEyes]

No issues for me, I lost my phone and rang it using a friends phone and someone had handed it into the lock ups and i also left my camera at the BBC intro tent and came back 30 mins later to find it was still there

[daley]

A security guard came up 2 us on the Saturday ngiht at park home 2 tell us 2 watch out cause there was tent getting robbed round us!

[Bobs]

security going through your tent ? WTF ???

[tekno_teacher]

It is sad that some people get robbed and we try our hardest to stop it, but it's a huge site and we can't cover it all 24x7 and I doubt an army of police would be a good thing for glastonbury! The only safe places for cash or valuables is either inside your sleeping bag next to your feet, or in one of the many free, open 24x7, secure lockups on site.

On this note, it's hardly consolation to the guy above who got robbed, but we are getting crime down

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/LocalPages/NewsDetails.aspx?nsid=20795&t=4

[Clareno7]

Dairy ground got hit hard last year (we were camped there) and loads of tents round us got done over, think its a convenient run to the exit for the scumbags !

[tazzyb]

I was camped in dairy ground and had no problems neither did any of my neighbours.

[ghandi]

There were a lot of younger people in Kidney mead / Big Ground. But also there was a very big lock up tent. Before the fest there was a topic about this. Really come on, do not trust that there are not scallys around who go there without money and thieve to pay for it. The are 180,000 people, do the math on averages.

[CCCheese]

One thing to point out here, which I don't think a lot of people realise, is that 999 works exactly the same inside the festival as it does outside...

If you see a crime in progress (someone rifling through tents), then call it in on 999 and we'll be there as quick as we can - hopefully catching them...

[AZZA&SAHA]

we had no problems with this we was in the lower mead. we took the advice and slept with cash at bottom of double sleeping bag. no one would have wanted to go down there!