Caravan Storage Compound Raided
This story happened on: 12/09/2012
We went to out caravan on Monday afternoon to get ready for our next trip to find the door open and low and behold the inside of the van was in a mess, but worse to come a total of 25 other vans had been broken into, TV's Awnings, even a Mattress was stolen. Our site was I thought very secure, it cannot be seen from the road, trees all around, a 5 bar gate that's padlocked opposite the owners home on a working farm, only 1 way in and out and thats through the gate. Surely a well planned raid that must have took some considerable time and a large van to take all the stuff away.
We only started to caravan this year and we thought we had got off to a bad start as all 5 trips the weather was awful raining on every trip, now I'm really gutted and totall p***ed off. Where they stealing to order? surely it was targeted?. I phone the clubs claim dept and they did'nt seem to care less did'nt want my policy number, no reference number, just told to fill in the claims form and send it off,. Angry? Yes, Dissalusioned? Yes. Will we carry on? Yes. No way will this put us off although I will be eager to see what the owner now does to increase security and will be looking to find a more secure inside storage unit.
chrishughes15
Caravanner