Tent Security

[Tommy101]

For those worried about people coming into their tent (whilst occupied) at night I heard a decent tip once about using a safety pin to connect the two door zips on most tents. You can only do it once your in there, it's almost invisible from the outside and take a lot longer to get in from the outside. The idea is to create enough noise for those in the tent to wake up or cause enough hassle for the intruder to move on to another tent.

There are limitations to the idea (i.e. everyone who is meant to be in the tent must be in the tent, it's a deterrent  and it by no means fail safe etc) but it might be useful for some. 

[alien]

I think the gadget probably would appeal to certain people, quite a large audience in fact. The kind of "I've got an app for everything" people that cannot be without their smart phones.

I could never empathise with those types of people, don't really see the need for more than a cheap £5 brick phone at a festival. I avoid bringing any valuables, and those that I do bring I keep on myself at all times, or put in a waterproof container and place UNDER my tent.

I can see value in tracking your mates movements with the gadget though. It can be a right bastard trying to find mates in a large crowd where you can't hear them over the phone and drunken text directions are vague at best. But at the same time that's part of the festival magic of when you do eventually find them.

[clarkete]

3 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

The only time I've seen tents robbed at Glastonbury, few years back, they slashed open the back of the tents, so any device on the zip would redundant.

Aye,  the stories I've read on  here previously tended to be people not even using the zip,  bless their cotton socks . The 

[eFestivals]

So .... to protect your valuables the answer is to have something attached to your tent that's more valuable than the things it's protecting...?

And which doesn't actually protect anything?

How's about not taking anything you can't afford to lose? Just a thought.

 

Edited November 7, 2016 by eFestivals

[mjsell]

1 hour ago, alien said:

I can see value in tracking your mates movements with the gadget though. It can be a right bastard trying to find mates in a large crowd where you can't hear them over the phone and drunken text directions are vague at best. But at the same time that's part of the festival magic of when you do eventually find them.

That's technology I could probably support. I do get the 'festival magic' sentiment though - but too much time wasted throughout my festivalling career would make me interested at the very least.

[shuttlep]

I would like to have something attached to me so my mates would know where I was, 

 

 

would be fun the next day to actually watch where I had been

[stuartbert two hats]

17 minutes ago, shuttlep said:

I would like to have something attached to me so my mates would know where I was, 

 

 

would be fun the next day to actually watch where I had been

You probably do. http://trendblog.net/cant-remember-last-night-google-location-history-can-help-you/

 

Just need to overlay a map of the festival.

[ironmike8]

I'm a total n00b at Glasto (first time this year just gone) but I didn't think people robbing tents was an especially big concern? Obviously I had nothing of value in there (apart from the weeks booze) but I never even considered it. 

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, ironmike8 said:

I'm a total n00b at Glasto (first time this year just gone) but I didn't think people robbing tents was an especially big concern? Obviously I had nothing of value in there (apart from the weeks booze) but I never even considered it. 

When it boils down to it, you're basically leaving stuff open to all comers in a field for 5 days. Purely by the law of averages some of those people at the festival will be thieving bastards, regardless of the "Glastonbury Spirit"*

Stuff does get nicked, so why gamble? If you play safe and use the lockups, worst case is losing your booze stash.

*in case you wondered, the official Glastonbury Spirit is gin

[ironmike8]

Well thats pretty mortifying 

 

 

I was drinking rum 

[sheffieldlady]

With everyone else on this, leave nothing valuable in the tent. Best bet is to leave nothing of worth in the tent, worse they can get away with is some booze, you'll have house keys, money, valuables locked up

[OG]

Don't think i've ever had anything stolen at a festival but always feel by the 3rd/4th day that someone has been stealing my booze

[Madyaker]

I was talking to a guy last year who claimed his tent got robbed, as in they took his tent, clothes, sleeping bag everything. He reckoned it was fence jumpers who needed a place to stay. Luckily all his valuables were in a lock up 

[Woffy]

26 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

I was talking to a guy last year who claimed his tent got robbed, as in they took his tent, clothes, sleeping bag everything. He reckoned it was fence jumpers who needed a place to stay. Luckily all his valuables were in a lock up 

One year going solo I had my entire tent moved, and subsequently lost, on the Thursday in whatever year Blur headlined. 

Car keys, wallet, cards, booze, my beloved cosy parka, etc, were all in the lockups. 

After some looking about with the help of the campsite stewards got bored and went and bought a new tent, sleeping bag and AMAZING cosy rug / throw thing and had a fucking brilliant time (camped with the campsite stewards). 

Lock ups, people, USE THE FREE LOCK UPS! And make a decent donation. 

[glasto-worker]

10 hours ago, The Nal said:

Just put something in the tent that electrocutes and/or beheads any intruders. That way it won't interrupt your festival with vibrating phones and the like.

And by the time you're back at your tent someone will have already cleaned away the twitching corpses.

that sounds about right - in the early 80's two jokers were going round tents unzipping them and if someone was inside ' would then claim they were selling dope { or whatever they could think up } - I came storming out and they took off { A Glaswegian accent works wonders at times - they were shitting themselves  } - amazingly the two of them did not split up and even more astonishingly they ran past ' their secret stash ' - lots and lots of bags - and then they split up so I gave up the chase but I went back to secure  their secret stash - I called my girlfriend over and she ran up to the farmhouse { this is before there was Police onsite } and security came down and picked up the bags - later on there was a guy with a megaphone telling people where to go if they lost anything - now I cant say how many bags were returned but it was a fair number and some surprising items - a few sleeping bags !! - this was during the day but the stash was close to the big hedge { that used to run down Muddy lane } so most people would have missed it - they must have been robbing - stashing and then going back to rob some more . 

sure I did not catch them but at least they did not profit that day.

Its the only time that has happened to me but for most of my years I have camped in a secure area { there has been a few people caught climbing over the crew fence but we suspect they were doing it thinking they could gain entry to the festival - they cant } and theft is very rare.

Edited November 7, 2016 by glasto-worker

[ciderbus]

8 minutes ago, Woffy said:

Lock ups, people, USE THE FREE LOCK UPS! And make a decent donation. 

and being civil to your neighbours goes a long way.

[Quark]

2 hours ago, ironmike8 said:

Well thats pretty mortifying 

 

 

I was drinking rum 

Don't worry, rum is what us cool kids drink. If gin is the pyramid, rum is the park.

[Spindles]

38 minutes ago, ciderbus said:

and being civil to your neighbours goes a long way.

Too right, get a spirit of community in your area.

[stuartbert two hats]

23 minutes ago, Quark said:

Don't worry, rum is what us cool kids drink. If gin is the pyramid, rum is the park.

The Park is full of people in their thirties and forties.

[fur_q]

Aside from what everyone else has said how would the device actually connect to a smart phone, presuming it would be via 4g but that would mean you'd need a sim and pay for the data costs and you may not get a signal where your tent is. 

[balti-pie]

19 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

The Park is full of people in their thirties and forties.

People in their thirties are still young and cool.

In approx three years, people in their forties will be young and cool too. 

[stuartbert two hats]

8 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

People in their thirties are still young and cool.

In approx three years, people in their forties will be young and cool too. 

Only actually 2 years until people in their forties will be cool.

[MrZigster]

People in their forties have already been cool for, hmm, almost nine years now.

Edit: Oh, and sleep with an axe.

Edited November 7, 2016 by MrZigster

[Woffy]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Only actually 2 years until people in their forties will be cool.

3 paper rounds, Stu?

[stuartbert two hats]

15 minutes ago, Woffy said:

3 paper rounds, Stu?

Eh? That's gone right over my head.