Weirdest thing you've ever seen on a campsite.

[hz]

We were camping this weekend, Saturday was a lovely sunny day but, as forecast, the evening was damp and the rain fell heavily overnight. During the night, around 3.30am, I heard the car engine of nearby campers starting up. At that time of the night I was a little irritated but, as the rain sluiced down, I thought perhaps they were having tent trouble and suppressed my irritation (though I couldn't quite imagine why tent leaks should equal car engine starting up). In the morning, as I drank my tea and looked around, I noticed that the nearby campers had in fact started their engine at 3.30 in the morning in order to park their car in their tunnel tent. I had to double take, my eyes can be a bit dodgy first thing in the morning but it was true; the front of the tent was wide open and the front two thirds of the car were in the tent. This is without a doubt the weirdest thing I have seen on a campsite and I cannot imagine why they did it. What't the weirdest thing you've seen and can anyone come up with a logical explanation for the car in the tent?

Were they going for dry but private (ish) sex? That's all I've got, sorry.

I don't have a weird camping thing, but could they have desperately needed the lights in the tent for some reason? (Possible straw clutching...)

leaky sun roof?

Errrr ..... nope, got nothing

I sadly witnessed what was most likely some sort of people trafficking on an idyllic site in Yorkshire. Very strange group of foreign ladies in a small caravan who never left but many comings and goings by dodgy characters bringing food. We reported it but don't know what happened.

Pissed up? Messing about maybe...
Cold in tent...
ERM....

Camping in Spain the family opposite us had their cat with them. It was wearing a harness with a long lead tied to a post. Seemed perfectly happy tbf.

That's so weird. I've got nothing- maybe some sort of cold baby/child emergency? Weird.

Despite the rain it was a really warm night last night so unless they brought no sleeping stuff with them at all I can't imagine they would be cold. Lights in tent - maybe, but I would just open the tent and shine headlights in rather than actually putting most of car in the tent, but maybe that's just me.

allowme my parents used to take our cat camping....though I don't think it was tied up.

Camping at a racecourse. Several pissed lads running round the course naked. Including climbing the jumps .

Leaky sunroof - actually that was where i got to, not leaky tent but leaky car. But how would they have known that in the middle of the night?

hz, I think you have identified a gap in the market and very soon taking a tent garage will be the in thing. For the obsessed camping car owner.

Bigger ones for caravans and camper vans, of course.

broken tent pole? car supporting tent?

Blu, I have seen a vintage VW camper van parked under one of those Coleman event shelters before.

It's probably something really boring like the electric windows stopped working and they couldn't close them.

Or maybe they were concerned about high winds and wanted the car in the tent to anchor it down?

I would have felt the need to make a nosey friendly comment as I went passed in the morning to find out why they had done it

Haha mine was someone pitching a.tent OVER their ancient old.heap of a car
they tried to do it like an awning off the side of the car and spent hours .. we laughed until we.cried
eventually they just tossed.the whole thing over the car and pegged it down. And then took off one side.to let the gurfriend out of the car
at this point I think I actually died laughing for a.bit

Shortly after that they walked off to the pub ... half way across the field, the guy turns round and BEEP sets the alarm

I wee'd a bit

Couple cavorting in their underwear - thought at first they were sunbathing but it wasn't that warm so surmised it was definitely cavorting - then disappearing into a two man tent for an afternoon 'rest'. They reappeared half an hour later stark naked and engaging loudly with people who questioned their appropriateness on a family campsite in a naice seaside town. Henceforth always known as the Southwold Sex People.

alloweme was going to say a cat on holiday with family camping in Spain! Although this one just stayed with the tent and even played 'fetch' with a little toy.

QOD

At least they didn't reverse the car into the tent - I would be very concerned about CO from the exhaust.

And just, well, running people over in their sleeping bags if your wet foot slipped on the clutch.....

Seen several cats camping in France and on one occasion a rabbit. On one campsite we stayed at a German family camped over the road and promptly dug trenches around their pitch. Cue many inappropriate war jokes from my husband and sons. Very funny though.

Loving this thread - we are camping novices so haven't really experienced any weirdness. A couple did have a falling out on the second night that resulted in him saying "goodnight everyone" and retiring to his van, leaving his gf in the tent. I wonder if she LTB?

This just makes me want to camp more.

We like to get pitched and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else falling out trying to pitch their tent.

Because obviously we never fall out.

This year we had the family with a baby behind us, who thought it appropriate that when the baby woke up at 6am and cried loudly, to call out 'Shh - go back to sleep' to the baby who obviously wasn't in their bit of the tent.
Said baby then cried loudly for half an hour, while parents argued about whose idea it was to go camping in the first place.

JUST PICK THE CRYING BABY UP. Tents are very thin. I don't need to listen to your baby cry for half and hour because you are too lazy to get out of your sleeping bag and get the poor baby.