I often padlock my tent
but it's mainly to make me feel better than to actual afford any sort of protection.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:27, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I used to do this until the year some cunt neatly sliced along the zip to get in,
leaving me with a still-robbed tent that now let the rain in too.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)

And this is one reason I don't go to festivals

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)

this is the reason I don't take anything worth nicking

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:34, Reply)

and because no one invites you

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)

I totally get invited
Like, all the time, to all of them.

Fuck off.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)

do they go "oh hey labs you should totally come to the festival, we're all going"
so that you buy a ticket and then they go "LOL JK"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)

*scowls*

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)

when I used to go to festivals I never took a toothbrush
let alone a tent. I used to stay up for days on end, or just kip under an army lorry or something. I also used to know people who'd take their coaches or caravans or whtever they lived in, so I would intrude on them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I once went to a festival without a tent or sleeping bag
thinking i'd either pull some ultra hot supermodel and sleep in her tent, do massive drugs and stay up all night or sleep out in the open as it was summer and warm.
I managed to make friends with a not so hot, not supermodel, not female group. They let me stay in their tent with them but I still froze my arse off and went out the next day and bought a sleeping bag.
I went back to reading festival for the first time in years after a break to get married and have kids and I fucking hated it, its worse than it already was in the late 90's and it was shit then.
( Peej, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:03, Reply)

I always regarded Reading as a 3-day gig rather than a Festival with a capital F.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)

It's basically "my first festival"
full of kids acting like pricks, still it's easy to get to and the lineup is usually decent.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Reading gets more full of cunts with every year that passes
they had a hair straightening tent the last time I went. Hair straightening. At a festival, for fucks sake. Pretentious little trendies the lot of 'em.
(berk, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Are you serious?
I would have firebombed that tent on principal.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)

Or wee on the straighteners
Fill the tent with the pungent aroma of your evaporating micturate and enjoy the screams as you zip the tent up and lock it with the padlock you previously stole from Al's tent.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)

This.
Thisthisthis. It's so annoying that there are these little teeny emo kids who religiously straighten their hair and do their makeup every day and carefully construct their outfits. Makes the rest of us look even more rough.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:24, Reply)

Well that would be a deterrant to most people at a festival,
it's a big step from opening a tent and nicking whatever's nearest the door to knifing a new door in the side.

It always used to bug me that people would steal those camping chairs from inside tent porches. Get your own damn chair!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)

It really isn't a big step.
it's massively common.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:32, Reply)

really?
I don't know anyone that's happened to, I thought, probably naively, that there was a kind of festival camaraderie. Maybe there used to be.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I guess it depends on the festival
Metal fests tend to have a lower cunter-to-punter ratio than, say, Leeds or Reading.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)

I was talking about Leeds actually
that's the festival I've been too the most, although I stopped going a few years ago because of the very same increased ratio.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Some of my friends work pit and lost property at Reading
They say that the ratio has been definitely tipping towards an increase in cunters with every passing year.
They get to camp in the VIP section though, so they're generally safe.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)

I went back to Reading for the last time in about 2002 to work backstage.
I wouldn't go near it unless I was in the VIP area. Just totally full of cunts and frankly always has been.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I dunno about "used to"
I stopped going to festivals ten years ago.

I believe it's better at glastonbury now as it is more or less impossible to get in without a ticket, and £200 is a lot to pay to rob a few sleeping bags. It's always been a terrible problem at festivals like Reading because more or less anyone can get onto the campsites, they only seriously bother with security around the arena.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Very true
and the security at Reading Festival are just hired thugs. I've seen them beating teenage girls with maglites with their badges covered up. When I tried to get their numbers from them I got a beating too. Bunch of lowlife cunts the lot of them.
( Peej, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)

You're massively common.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)

How very fucking dare you.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)

If you're talking about music festivals
seriously, don't. That just makes arseholes think there is something inside worth having, so they slash the back open instead.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:32, Reply)

In my defence
I don't padlock the outer skin, just the inside door. But yeah, it is pointless. Still, I've never been robbed at a Festival.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)

me neither, except for the aforementioned chairs.
Although I've always camped with so many people that there's usually someone about at all times, even when huge bands are on.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

big groups in tent circles is usually the safest.
But all festivals have several "professional" thieves operating.

1)nick big tent
2)put up big tent on opposite side of campsite
3)spend the rest of weekend robbing other tents and dumping stuff in big tent
4)sort out valuables at the end and leave the rest behind, in said big tent.

not being robbed is almost certainly more luck than judgement, although not having anything to steal in the first place is a good start.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)

That's because no-one else
wants 15 blocks of catering lard and pair of XXXL y-fronts, Al.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)

^lardlols

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)