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BERTHA

My wife and the 2 youngest experienced a gas attack last weekend near Dawlish

Hugh

C7KEN

Hugh PLEASE ELABORATE as this gas thing is very important to a lot of people
Ken

BERTHA

That's all I can say is the wife made me go and stand outside!

I know its a serious issue and one of the things I ordered with our van back in Jan 2005 is a fitted gas alarm.

However, I have also been reading many, many posts on this topic since I joined this site back in Feb 2005.

Yet I have not read here or anywhere else one confirmed report of people being gassed in their motorhome.
In fact buying the gas and then moving it around in gas bottles, running a tube to the motorhome and then having enough gas to knock out the occupants seems like a hell of a lot of work, i would rather just hold a gun to your head!!

I am very concerned about anyone entering our motorhome while we are sleeping not least because we have children with us, hence why we use campsites.

I know you will not stop any criminal if they are intent on entering your property.

But I have tried to make it difficult for them I have:

Installed a Gas Alarm
Installed Security alarm than can be left on when we are inside.
Installed Heo locks to the cab doors
Apart from the Fiat base all the other windows are over 6ft above ground level.
Installed Fiamma locks to all lockers where access might be gained to the habitation area (and the habitation door for when we are out)

When we are not in the van we:

Have a Steering wheel cover
Also Bulldog 16in Wheel cover

And even if we are only parking up for lunch we make ourselves very aware of our surroundings from a security prospective.

Are we still at risk, of course but hell, what more can I do, stop living?

Regards
Hugh
We have a baseball bat

thehutchies

Maybe we should pledge individual donations to establish a prize fund to be given to the first criminal able to demonstrate an effective method of gas attack on a motorhome.
A carrier bag full of used notes would be sufficient incentive, I think.

I can't see it being claimed any time soon.

fingzuk

Hello everyone, sorry it's taken me so long to reply Embarassed

. I have to rely on my local Library for internet connection.
Anyway I am here now and I'm really shocked at how you all don't seem to know much about this gassing that REALLY IS HAPPENING. Anyone who wants an E-Mail .jpg of cutting of gassings that have taken place in France and Spain E-Mail me.

ScotJimland

desertsong

Hello folks,

It always makes me laugh the way these stories just get dredged up when we're about to go to La Belle France. Strange there's never any basis to it.

Of course nobody in Britain has ever been robbed, mugged, burgled had their car broken into. The next bit of the script is that the French are blocking the ports and the dockers, air traffic controllers and the pompiers are all on strike. What a chaotic country! Who could live there? Me! And very happily thank you without the guff that keeps people in this country from really living.

This has become a nation of nervous Norahs and nutters with no in between. It's extreme in every aspect and we've forgotten how to be free, laugh and think for ourselves. There are large swathes of Britain where you're not even safe in your bed never mind parked up in the services with your door locked, alarm on, gas attack alarm, mobile handy and a big stick just in case. What a fear ridden lot we've become. Go out and live.

MC

coral

^ I quite agreeMC^

desertsong

Hello again,

Well, Martin, it's good to agree on something. This subject is too much phooey.

MC

olley · Campsite DB Admin

[quote="ScotJimland
Fingzuk You said earlier
my husband and me have actually witnessed an attack on a motorhome at a French Aire Du ( can't quite remember the name of it but hubby will if I ask him )
[/quote]

How do you witness a gas attack? do you sit there while tha gasser rolls up with a gas bottle, climbs up on the roof, inserts the pipe, turns the gas on, waits 10 minutes or so, puts on a gas mask, breaks open the door, nicks what he likes and then does a runner, gas bottle under his arm and booty over his shoulder?

Olley