Problems with the community fire

[SolRac]

I realize this is my first post, but I do plan to stick around (I actually joined to ask garbing questions).

We camped at the faire last weekend, and I didn't see anyone cracking down on anything outside of the fire. Sometime around 1 in the morning, a group of 10 or so kids (age 16-18ish) set up camp less than 2 feet from our tents. They drank and smoked all night, SCREAMING about how high they were, and how they had some bad shrooms, yelling profanity all.night.long. They left their rap music on full blast all.night.long. You could hear booing from all corners of the camp it was so loud (we were nowhere near the fire). They did not go to faire in the morning. No one in our camp got any sleep which put a bit of a damper on the festivities the next day.

But my thought is, if you've got these kids, set up by a main fork in the road, obviously smoking, drinking, yelling endlessly about what drugs they're on and bothering the whole camp with their music, with no camping tag, why wouldn't the police run them off?

Sunday we did not see a single patrol, but I assume it was because of the two emergencies, and stuff like that just can't be helped.

I can't compare to years past, but it certainly didn't look like there was any action happening; those kids should have been a prime target.

THey had signs all over about nighttime security phone number posted all over. Mike came right through our camp to check on things making his rounds. I added the phone number in my cell for that very reason you spoke of. The phone number is up a few posts add it to your cell just in case.

[brigaqueen1]

I agree....I put the # in my phone too....Charlie does stop by our camp throughout the night to check in, say hello, get some food  etc. But it's good to have the # right there in your cell when and if you need it.

If possible though, try to make sure you can tell the officers where youre camp is...in the dark its pretty hard to find campsites...I always go by the parking lot rows or use the cess pool as a starting point when telling people where our camp is.

[*Teach*]

Got the number added in my phone too. Never know when that may come in handy.
I generally like to deal with my own kidiots in my own fashion (teacher thing I guess) but I don't want to play with 'em at faire.

*Little buggers try to talk me out of my rum sometimes... not a chance*

[~*Lovely Lisa*~]

My vote is for shutting down the drum circle.  We don't need it, and it only causes problems.  The girl that got hit in the face with the bottle, leaving her name out for her privacy, it was her first time at faire.  I don't know about the rest of you, but it hurts my heart to think she took away that impression of what we do out there.  And she's said that she may not come out again.  That's just sad.  It is sad to think that someone thinks that way about something I love so much.

[Lady Laura]

Our friends camped in our usual spot last weekend and got all of their alcohol stolen from inside their tent.  We've bought small locks for the zippers on our tents and will take our lawn chairs, stove, ice chests, etc., and lock them in the tents now before heading inside.  Hopefully, with the stuff out of sight, they will move on.  I HATE that it's come to this 

[Brother Octavius]

My vote is for shutting down the drum circle.  We don't need it, and it only causes problems.  The girl that got hit in the face with the bottle, leaving her name out for her privacy, it was her first time at faire.  I don't know about the rest of you, but it hurts my heart to think she took away that impression of what we do out there.  And she's said that she may not come out again.  That's just sad.  It is sad to think that someone thinks that way about something I love so much.

I agree it would be ashame to tarnish the camp grounds.  I would only ask that more law enforcement be there to assist Charlie.  I'm 38 and I'm not the get off my lawn guy but I am be respectful guy at all times and the kids and punks are out of hand.  Last year Charlie ran some drunk guys off for us, no fire ring, trash everywhere and not a 21 year old in the bunch.

Huzzah to Charlie, he works hard for our enjoyment.

[Tanyor]

Our friends camped in our usual spot last weekend and got all of their alcohol stolen from inside their tent.  We've bought small locks for the zippers on our tents and will take our lawn chairs, stove, ice chests, etc., and lock them in the tents now before heading inside.  Hopefully, with the stuff out of sight, they will move on.  I HATE that it's come to this 

Also I would put locks on the coolers as well. You can bend a hasp to lock the lid to the cooler. We had to start doing it a music fest, and haven't have our cooler raided since.



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[PurpleDragon]

It is unfortunate that we must contend with these people, but sadly it appears to be the way things are headed out there.  Locks on your tents?  all that is going to do is keep honest people honest, and we are not talking about honest people here.  We are talking about no good thieves. A lock is not going to stop someone who really wants in your tent. Your best option to keep your things that you want safe is to lock it up in your vehicle when you are away from camp.

[Muffin]

Sadly that's what I was thinking as well.. A lock will more than likely not keep a thief out of your tent if they want in bad enough, and if the cooler was locked, they may as well steal the whole thing and break the lock off to get the goods... Rotten no good little................... well you know what's....

Pretty sure we will be keeping everything locked up in the car whilst we play at faire...

What a bummer... 

[Riot]

Well I know in past year that is what has happened. They just take the whoel cooler and sometimes  the cooler is found along the back fence line and sometimes it isn't. I rememebr when Bacardi's (I think it was Bacardi's) was taken, his was by his tent and ours were not even like 20 feet away under the pavilions and they took his and not ours. They tried to take Necro's that night as well, but he heard them and grunted and shook the tent and they scurried off. One year McShuggenah had a dog kennel brought up to camp and we put in under the big pavilion we used to rent and certain people had keys. All Coolers and other small items where put in there and nothing was taken that weekend. Due to space we never did that again though.

[CahirDochartaigh]

Last year was my first year camping and we piled most belongings in our tent and put locks on the zipper. and we put the more valuable items (booze!) in the car. I guess we're just naturally paranoid.

Maybe I missed it, but are they checking for tickets now? We wanna show up on friday and plan on buying weekend passes, will this present a problem?

[ScoutColt]

Just keep someone in camp. We rotate couples or individuals. We shouldnt have to, but if your that worried about your stuff it's a 100% effective precaution.

[Blue66669]

Last year was my first year camping and we piled most belongings in our tent and put locks on the zipper. and we put the more valuable items (booze!) in the car. I guess we're just naturally paranoid.

Maybe I missed it, but are they checking for tickets now? We wanna show up on friday and plan on buying weekend passes, will this present a problem?

It shouldn't be an issue...

[Lady Laura]

I do lock up the electronics, heaters and big bags of wood in my car, right beside my taser and baseball bat.

[mieljolie]

We absent-mindedly left a cooler outside of our tent on Saturday night opening weekend.  It was stolen in the night.  I wonder what the thieves thought when they opened it to find a few open packages of raw meat and no booze.  Hehe