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After getting involved on the recent thread about "pirate attacks on the costas"I suggested a poll.Nobody has taken it up,so I thought I might get the ball rolling.It has been said that the majority of attacks are hearsay and not many are factual.There are more than 41000 members here at MHF.How many have actually been attacked on the costas?
Please only vote if it has happened to YOU not,I was told ,It happened to a friend etc.
Been going there since 1989 and never even had my pocket picked.
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Well, I could vote 'No' as we've never been attacked in the Costas, but there again we've never been to the Costas, with or without a motorhome.
If you want any sort of validity from your poll it might be worth suggesting that only people who've been to the Costas should vote. It would perhaps also also help if people stated how many trips or weeks/months they've spent there.
Well, I could vote 'No' as we've never been attacked in the Costas, but there again we've never been to the Costas, with or without a motorhome.
If you want any sort of validity from your poll it might be worth suggesting that only people who've been to the Costas should vote. It would perhaps also also help if people stated how many trips or weeks/months they've spent there.
Chris
I thought the question was valid enough.How could you vote, that you have been or not been attacked ,if you have never been to the Costas?.
Why does it matter how many times people have been?I want to know if people have been attacked thats all.
Please give me a break ,this is the first time I have done a pole.
The poll is too narrow, it should have included actually getting to the Costa's as Southern France and Northern Spain are well known trouble spots. Also people being actually attacked will be very rare in my opinion as all the low life are after is what you have.
For the record we have been broken into in Northern France in the van and whilst in a villa on the Costa del Sol. But then we have been broken into twice in our home in Kent! So my feelings on the subject are that it's international and not confined to motorhomes. You keep hearing it here because it's the subject (motorhoming) that we are all interested in.
Please only vote if it has happened to YOU not,I was told ,It happened to a friend etc.
That seems a reasonable way to frame the question. However, it's worth pointing out that you're asking all 41,000 "members" (actually many less actual subscribers, as I don't think non-subscribers can vote) if they're been attacked on the Costas. To make it more meaningful, it perhaps could be directed to just those people who have travelled through the area in question. You have otherwise opened it up to non-Costas-visitors saying that they're never been attacked, owing to the fact that they have never been there.
Also - as accurate information is surely at the heart of this - it must be valuable to everyone if those who vote "Yes" give a brief account of what happened to them. Otherwise, to me, it's entirely unverifiable and therefore a pointless exercise.
How about it, Yes People?
Dougie.
Last edited by asprn on Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:20 pm; edited 1 time in total
Apologies but I don't believe that this is a useful pole and may well be offputting to some who are considering travelling to Spain.
The people who are regular visitors to MHF will be nowhere near 41,000 and I believe that any result would be meaningless.
There are thousands of Dutch Germans ect. who make the trip every year so you would need to ask them as well.
We have travelled to Spain for the last two years in winter and will be going this year setting off on the 31 Jan.
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