The Wazzock will get you!
I used to teach at a high school in Essex back in the late 90s. Every year we'd take the Yr7s (11-12yr olds) camping for a week. It was a great activity, the whole year group would bond together and we'd have an excuse to have some staff bonding time too!

However, I decided to tell the kids about the Wazzock. Half badger-half Fox that were about in the area. That they'd be out in the campsite at night and could attack them. They'd need their torches and after-dark it was best to stay in their tents. You can see the plan.

Other staff got in on the act and so did a number of parents too.

"I asked my mum what a Wazzock was and she said I was one"........

So 15 large canvas tents, kids eating all sorts of unhealthy snacks that they had squirrelled away and you can guess the keeping tents clean was not on their list of priorities.

So a dark night and we as staff decide to go out and find a tent where we could hear chattering. One of us just runs our fingernails over the canvas. It all goes hush for a while. Talking starts again and then another one decides to run our nails over the canvas. Then we hear screaming from another tent, our tent begins to scream. We run over to hear the kids going "It was in the tent" - "the Wazzocks were in the tent - I felt them". "It has had my crisps".

Next night we find that the kids have been leaving so much rubbish in their tents and it was a campsite that was used a fair bit that the local Grey Squirrel population would visit the tents at night and clean up any food.

We got very little bother and clean tents upon inspection for the rest of the week!
(calidris, Sun 15 Jan 2012, 19:26, Reply)