Rob Morley wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:39:56 +0100
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

Oddly, it seems this £50 grand vehicle didn't come with an alarm
system fitted. Unlike every car I've owned in the last 30 years.

Just imagine how popular you'd be with all the other campers if you came
back from the pub to find your alarm had been going off for ages.
Much better to use a silent remote alarm and some sort of tracker, but
for those to be useful they need to be hard to find and disable - if
they were all fitted as standard, standard systems in standard places,
then they'd be relatively easy to disable soon after the stolen vehicle
had been removed.



It happened to us on our last trip. We had just got on the park an ride bus
in Bath ( we tow a car on a trailer), when the site warden called to say
our alarm had been going off for awhile. We explained we were already
heading back and would be about 20/30 mins. It was a hot day - the previous
hot spell a month or so back- so fortunately a lot of the adjacent campers
were also out and about, as we were. I visited those that werent and
apologised for the noise etc. All were very understanding.

It isnt uncommon. We were in Delft just after Easter. The people in a
motorhome opposite seemed to trigger their alarm every time they opened the
door. It was a rented vehicle ( company details on the side) and they
didnt seem to have got used to it.