Disgusting camping practices

[Midnightmoon]

Originally Posted by Dustdevil

NO!!! In 27 years of RVing, I've never thought of this. You just gave me the dry heaves, LOL!



And THIS??? You guys sure know how to wreck a guy's appetite.

Sorry.

[Scott91370]

Thankfully I've never come across these but we only recently started rv'ing. Used to only be tent camping in semi-primitive type sites.
So up to this point it is messy people and people walking through my campsite.

I do appreciate this thread though, even though it's kind of gross. Gives us newbies some insight.

[Sundancer330]

Last weekend I found about 20 dental floss sticks half buried in the sand around the power pedestal when plugging in. All I could think was what a slob thats to lazy to throw them out.

[2nOZ]

People walking or running through the campsite and between the TV and TT. Slobs that get drunk, turn up their outside speakers at 2am, throw their beer cans on the ground and then pass out with a roaring fire going.

[North of 49°]

People who don't rinse down the dump station after they use it -- the last thing I want to do is to have to wash your waste and your wife's feminine hygiene products down the sewer before I dump my own tanks. I mean, there's a hose there for that expressed purpose! True story, and it made me gag.

[JFlightRisk]

We watched a camper walking their dog, it poops on someone else's camp site, and they start to walk away without cleaning up the pile. We offered a poop bag to them, but they say "I'm not touching that stuff". So, being responsible pet owners, after they walk away, we pick it up, and place it on their bumper.

[kayakterp]

Originally Posted by Scott91370

Thankfully I've never come across these but we only recently started rv'ing. Used to only be tent camping in semi-primitive type sites.
So up to this point it is messy people and people walking through my campsite.

I do appreciate this thread though, even though it's kind of gross. Gives us newbies some insight.

x2, gives me a lot to think about next time I go camping. Appreciate the suggestions of cleaning the water hoses before hookup!

[kayakterp]

Originally Posted by JFlightRisk

We watched a camper walking their dog, it poops on someone else's camp site, and they start to walk away without cleaning up the pile. We offered a poop bag to them, but they say "I'm not touching that stuff". So, being responsible pet owners, after they walk away, we pick it up, and place it on their bumper.

Like your problem solving!

[rkresge]

Originally Posted by JFlightRisk

We watched a camper walking their dog, it poops on someone else's camp site, and they start to walk away without cleaning up the pile. We offered a poop bag to them, but they say "I'm not touching that stuff". So, being responsible pet owners, after they walk away, we pick it up, and place it on their bumper.

Way to go!!

Roger

[TWP723]

1) Trash in the fire pit (cigarette butts, beer cans, etc.)
2) The draining of fresh tanks in the site.
3) The Mario Andretti's of the golf carts.
4) Not picking up after your pet.
5) Wrenching the sewer cap on so tight, you need tools to remove it.

[Marcm157]

I guess this is pretty tame in light of what has already been posted but I hate people that don't control their children.

I am by no means expecting silence but when rowdy kids yell at the top of their lungs and continually run through our site using it as their personal playground, it drives me crazy. Some parents haven't figured out that respect for others needs to be instilled in children. I raised 4 kids none of which are perfect but the one value I made certain to put forth was respect...

[Camper_bob]

I hadn't remembered the walking through my campsite thing. Thankfully it hasn't happened in a LONG time.

It drives me absolutely bonkers when it does happen though, and I have NO problem immediately confronting individuals in that situation, and have done so before. If it's an adult (who should know better) It's not a particularly friendly conversation. If it's a child I try to make it more of a learning opportunity.

As a boy scout, we were taught NEVER to enter a campsite without express permission from the occupant. NEVER. In fact, SOP was to stop at the border of the site and say "permission to enter?" and if the occupants wanted to allow you in, they would respond "granted", and only then could you enter the site. If there was no answer, you moved on. If they didn't want you to come in at that time, they would ask you to come back later.

That's basically a person's living room, have some respect! Same for the leaving trash thing. That's only your living room for a little while, then it's someone else's. I often wonder what makes those people think they have a right to trash someone else's house!

[bono]

For this reason, we stay at state campgrounds which have bigger sites and the sites are more spread out. This drives my absolutely crazy when neighbors are loud and do not care about other people at the campground.

As said, we are using state campgrounds, so no hook-ups. I am using only solar and I am just terrified to see a contractor generator at a campground. Fortunately, to date, we have not had such gen next door.

Just more common sense and world would be better.

Originally Posted by bansai

(...)
2) people with extended families (large ones) that feel they own the entire camp ground because they are related to 80% of the people camping there that weekend. My site is somewhere in the middle, and so I spend my evenings wondering why 25 people walk through my site / per hour. (This became a confrontation eventually).
(...)

[Force]

Dump stations are surprisingly, if not disgustingly, entertaining!

Last dump station I waited behind two different campers, and in both cases the guys wore rubber gloves, but then proceeded to touch every possible thing they could around the camper as well as their own truck doors, so that defeats the purpose I'd say.

And then the 2nd guy picked up his hose after flushing everything, and still dripping who knows what, shoved the entire thing right into his outside storage! No end caps on it, nothing...

[DonaandDon]

Cigarette butts. Everywhere. In front of the TV and around the campfire pit. All over the picnic table area.

[NCMFFD]

I just gotta shake my head after reading all the posts. What the H E C K is wrong with people?

I've seen the all night loud parties but we've been fortunate during most of our RV travels. I do find cigar & cigarette smoking disgusting. I don't really need their smoke drifting into my space.

A spray bottle will be added to our list of things to pack and who'd have thought that my DW was into something with a tablecloth on the picnic table [emoji23]

That's all I got.

[norty1]

Originally Posted by JFlightRisk

We watched a camper walking their dog, it poops on someone else's camp site, and they start to walk away without cleaning up the pile. We offered a poop bag to them, but they say "I'm not touching that stuff". So, being responsible pet owners, after they walk away, we pick it up, and place it on their bumper.

I like it!

[B5 GTX]

This past Sunday we watched a guy dump his tanks with no gloves on, what was he thinking? He probably jumped back in his truck and ate a sandwich.

[FishAr]

Originally Posted by JFlightRisk

We watched a camper walking their dog, it poops on someone else's camp site, and they start to walk away without cleaning up the pile. We offered a poop bag to them, but they say "I'm not touching that stuff". So, being responsible pet owners, after they walk away, we pick it up, and place it on their bumper.

Left Florida to take my wife home. When I got back there was a plastic bag on my steps, I felt of it and a gooey disgusting feeling mass was inside.

Confused I thought maybe my trash can had turned over and it fell out and someone got mad and put it on the steps. Then remembered I'd emptied the trash can before I left.

Then I figure well some one walked their dog around my trailer and didn't clean up, then someone else thought I'd left it there and decided to teach me a lesson by leaving it on my steps. I was getting pretty aggravated.

Upon further investigation the plastic bag was full of grass seed that the campground golf course greens keeper had left me to fill in some bare spots on my campsite.

[norty1]

Originally Posted by B5 GTX

This past Sunday we watched a guy dump his tanks with no gloves on, what was he thinking? He probably jumped back in his truck and ate a sandwich.

Or bit his fingernails! yeww