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JeremyClarksson

Sep 13, 2006
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We went away this weekend to a commercial site and for a change not on a rally

As a hookup was available for our pitch we went electric for the weekend,

Around midnight a neighbour coming back must have turned their heater and keetle on etc all at once and tripped the 10A supply.

Their answer - go to the hookup point and swap their cable with ours without telling us so we now have the defective supply.

I only knew as I was watching our TV on 240V at the time they did it.

When I challenged them they pointed out that I had mistakenly plugged into the supply marked up for them (I think there was another van plugged in to mine when I arrived and before they did), so in their view they had done nothing wrong, regardless of the fact that there were 2 working supplies until they had blown one.

I did not want to have a midnight row or get the warden out at that time of night so swapped the fridge and heater to gas until the morning.

The warden was very helpful and reset the trip in the morning and did have a word with the neighbours so I am not going to mention the site as it was not their fault.

The warden did say this is quite common practice with infrequent/new caravanners but I have never come across it before.

Has anyone fitted an audible warning device or similar for hook up failure?
 
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Tony A.

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Garry,

You must be a gentlman of the highest order, had I have been you there wouldn`t have been a row, I wouldnt have said a word, just pulled their lead out and plugged mine in, you generaly find bullies back off when confronted with direct action. take some self defence lessons, dont let bullies walk over you.

Tony A.
 
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LizCornwall

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Cheeky people I would have certainly pulled their plug out and plugged mine in. Samething happen to us, spare hook-up next to ours, we came back tourer next to us had taken our lead out, plugged theirs in left our lead just of the floor. Hubby went out unplugged theirs and plugged ours back in. Obviously they overloaded theirs could not or did not bother to get site warden,bearing in mind this was early afternoon, apparently it was a faulty hook-up. Our site here if anybody overloads it only trips their pitch. In the summertime when site is full to the brim, overloading sometimes does effect other pitches.
 
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crusader_5040706

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this happened to us last year and its took me 8 months to put it on here as just thinking about it makes me ********* we went to france last year for 3 weeks and had borrowed two adapters for polarity /french style hookup from a good friend, can you imagine how mad i was when on our last morning as i was tracing my orange cable up to the bollard our borrowed polarity "reverser" had been stolen in the night and we had been plugged back in !!!! it was the castells site near calais and as we were leaving at 6 am i didnt get chance to report it. i am sure to this day what would have happened to the person if they had been unlucky enough to have been caught by ME??? ok rant over but to put someones life at risk for a few pounds the mind boggles
 
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cris_408518

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We went to near Bordeaux about 8 years ago and many socket on the boards were reverse polarity. Mid afternoon about 8 or nine Brit caravans arrived, all family/friends on their first trip abroad and unaware of polarity problems. Our neighbout who had arrived just after us the day before pointed out the problem and I lent them my tester to find suitable points or reverse the wires.

As it was getting on I left them to it and next day my son asked for the tester back only to get blank looks and shoulder shrugs. I got the same and a sarcastic remark from one of the group about being a tight southener.

A gentle firm word and the tester was handed to me but when we went out our caravan was unplugged!

My Brother in-law had his supply cable cut off at one French site by Brits and found it at a far end pitch just taped to another cable. People up behind in a static saw him wandering looking bewildered and tipped him off that they thought they had seen someone in the bushes to the side of his van and pointed to a new arrival.

The Disco owner boldy claimed to have found the cable lying coiled on the ground when he pointed out that the cable and plug were marked.

At another time he also found his carver water pipe unplugged and plugged in to another vans in board system arriving back from the beach finding new neighbours had pitched on fully serviced pitch. The caravanner claimed it was just lying around at the shared water outlet and then he noticed his unique bit of French drain hose running from the other van to the drains. The other guy got very upset when he took the pipe back as the guys wife was showering.
 
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GrahamW

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This thread has made me giggle, we had no such problems on a recent trip to the Dordogne, why, because the EHU was 12 feet up a tree and consisted of the French type plug on the end of an extension lead and wrapped in a plastic bag for weather protection. Only person who went near it was the site owner, especially in the rain. I guess that's French HSE laws.

Anyway the hook up performed well for the whole trip!!
 
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GingerPete

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this has happened to us twice , the first time the site in france throw away my new reverse polarity adapter which had been lugged in for nearly 2 weeks , all they had to do was follow the cable for a few yards & leave it in my awning. the second was by a rather rude elderly lady accused me of plugging into her socket ,so she just unplugged mine & plugged hers in leaving my lead on the floor,the electrity supply was directly behind my caravan & they was parked 3 pitchs from us so shouldn't even been using the same bollard & every time i passed their caravan her & her husband muttered insults....hope ther get bogged down in the mud on a cl with no one to help them....pete
 
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BeemerMal

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Maybe we have been lucky but in all the years we have caravanned we have only had one nasty incident on a campsite and this was in February last year.

We were staying at Villanova Park, south of Barcelona when a new arrival pitched their brand new Hobby Motorhome behind us. The group consisted of a man in his fifties, his son and girlfriend and their baby. They were clearly new to the set up process and in discussion they said this was their first trip out. I and another neighbour (who had a Hobby)offered advise and help and we soon got them set up.

At 11.00pm the music cranked up, the vino started to flow and the baby started to cry....As peace loving individuals we tried to ignore it and by 1.30 in the morning all was quiet. I mentioned it to them the following morning and they were most apologetic.

The second night it happened again and by 1.00am my wife went round and asked them to quieten down, as did two other campers. She got shouted at and verbally abused so I interviened and by now about 5 other campers were out complaining to them about the noise. The older guy, now the worse for the drink, told me to watch my back because whilst I slept my car may just get damaged so you can imagine we had a very restless night.

We decided to move pitches the following morning but reception told us to stay put because they had received 8 complaints and they had asked this group to leave site by 12.00noon.

They did move on, and what nationality were they....I'm ashamed to say they were British!
 
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Lord Braykewynde

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Maybe we have been lucky but in all the years we have caravanned we have only had one nasty incident on a campsite and this was in February last year.

We were staying at Villanova Park, south of Barcelona when a new arrival pitched their brand new Hobby Motorhome behind us. The group consisted of a man in his fifties, his son and girlfriend and their baby. They were clearly new to the set up process and in discussion they said this was their first trip out. I and another neighbour (who had a Hobby)offered advise and help and we soon got them set up.

At 11.00pm the music cranked up, the vino started to flow and the baby started to cry....As peace loving individuals we tried to ignore it and by 1.30 in the morning all was quiet. I mentioned it to them the following morning and they were most apologetic.

The second night it happened again and by 1.00am my wife went round and asked them to quieten down, as did two other campers. She got shouted at and verbally abused so I interviened and by now about 5 other campers were out complaining to them about the noise. The older guy, now the worse for the drink, told me to watch my back because whilst I slept my car may just get damaged so you can imagine we had a very restless night.

We decided to move pitches the following morning but reception told us to stay put because they had received 8 complaints and they had asked this group to leave site by 12.00noon.

They did move on, and what nationality were they....I'm ashamed to say they were British!
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Don't it make you wonder where low lifes like that get their money from to buy a new Hobby motorhome?
 
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ThePlotter

Jan 2, 2006
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My only experience of this sort of behaviour was at La Foret in the Vendee,the site owner Jaque made it clear that noise was not allowed after 11pm and if you wanted to be noisy go to the court yard area where no one would be disturbed.One night two english couples in Eurocamp tents and a young Dutch couple also with Eurocamp got together and with lots of Vin Rouge they all got very noisy the security man asked them to be quiet but no chance the boss arrived and got verbal abuse,he got the couriers out of bed and told them that the three trouble causers were to be off site by 11am.Guess what they were and better still the owner came to every van in the area told us there would be no more trouble and gave his apologies.
 
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ThePlotter

Jan 2, 2006
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I forgot to say that the young Dutch couple were on honeymoon,can you imagine the red faces when they got home and had to explain their early return was due to making too much noise on honeymoon!
 
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Vic_5039745

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I really cannot believe what I have just read in this thread. People are so bloody selfish aren't they?

In nearly 25 years of caravanning we have never experienced such behaviour and it would never occur to us to do such a thing - and we stay almost exclusively on commercial sites.

On our favourite commercial site in France, the hook ups are in a box containing six sockets and the box is lockable. Only the site management has the keys to these boxes which makes socket switching and other such nefarious practices virtually impossible.

Vic:)-)
 
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JeremyClarksson

Sep 13, 2006
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I did confront them but it was obvious it was going to go no further without getting half the site, the wardens and the possibly even the police involved at that time of night.

My family was also asleep.

It all worked out in the morning and I do not think they will do it again.

As nobody has asked they were definitely of the chavvish persuasion and it would have got noisy.
 
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