{"id":18081,"date":"2015-08-23T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=18081"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:56:27","slug":"staying-safe-in-a-motorhome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/staying-safe-in-a-motorhome\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorhome Break-Ins &#8211; How We Deter The Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.&#8221; John A. Shedd<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>I spend a lot of time reading motorhome blogs, so it&#8217;s reasonable that from time to time I&#8217;ll come across details of&nbsp;break-ins. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/your-tour-joanne-and-craigs-motorhome-bumble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Bumble guys<\/a> posted on Facebook recently&nbsp;to say their van had been done over in France, the door mangled and rear tyres punctured. <a href=\"http:\/\/amajorbreak.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Major Break<\/a> were broken into in Spain and a fair few things nicked. Errmmm, but thinking about it, that&#8217;s about the lot, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve come across. Tens of thousands of vicarious miles and hundreds of overnight stays, in tens of different countries, and that&#8217;s&nbsp;all the blogger break-ins I&#8217;ve read about. Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our last 2 year stint, some of the fab folks we were lucky enough to travel with were involved in two incidents. One couple had an attempted break-in (they failed to break the door locks) while they were in a museum, plus&nbsp;our mates Jacqui and Marc had their window removed in Portugal by some undesirables, who proceeded to rummage through all the places we thought were clever &#8216;hiding spots&#8217; for stuff. We also chatted with as many people as we could, asking how they stayed secure. In all of this,&nbsp;I&#8217;ve&nbsp;only ever heard of a single case of someone trying to get into the van while they were in there (<a href=\"http:\/\/technomadics.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">technomadics<\/a>, while parked outside&nbsp;a port in Tunisia, and the &#8216;robbers&#8217; were drunk and asking for alcohol). In our travels we&#8217;ve slept in about 500 different places, areas both&nbsp;rich and poor, and no-one has broken into the vans we&#8217;ve used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this soothing anecdotal evidence, the recent Our Bumble break-in got me thinking, as we&#8217;re just a few weeks from heading off out ourselves and I don&#8217;t much fancy being broken into. What did we do last time to help us stay safe? What can we do again? What is the biggest risk to us as we spend months out travelling Europe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are big questions, and I&#8217;m not going to do them justice in a single blog post. I suspect someone could write a book. Maybe start off by contacting all of the insurance companies and see if they&#8217;d give you data on motorhome claims. Which countries and areas&nbsp;were the claims made from? What was stolen? Where exactly was the van parked at the time? Which dates were the claims made? How did the thieves get in? Was anyone threatened? What time of day or night did the break-in happen? Was it an urban area or rural? Was the area well lit? What security measures did the van have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I started to think about all of this, I remembered something. The only damage which happened to Dave (our legend of a Hymer B544) wasn&#8217;t caused by robbers. It was caused by us. We forgot to wind down the main skylight, resulting in an open-air feel to Dave for a while. We didn&#8217;t put decent tyres on, which saw <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/tell-me-why-i-dont-like-mondays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one blow out<\/a> and mangle a wheel arch and a cupboard in the van. I reversed into that <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/dave-says-ouch-arrivederci-italia-%ce%b3%ce%b5%ce%b9%ce%b1-%cf%83%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%ac%ce%b4%ce%b1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rebar sticking from a wall in Italy<\/a>. I <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/dave-turns-part-tractor-en-route-to-jard-sur-mer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whacked a wing mirror<\/a> against those unsuspecting worker&#8217;s van in France&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also remembered something else. The tyre blowout scared us all. Stood in the grass waiting for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/review-adac-european-breakdown-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADAC guys<\/a> to come and get the spare wheel on, I remember thinking to myself &#8216;this was supposed to be fun, no-one is supposed to be getting hurt&#8217;. That thought stuck in my head as we went. As long as we stayed safe, then the van being broken into could happen and I&#8217;d get over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The follow-on thought was then: so how do we stay safe? What&#8217;s the biggest threat to us? Having read my fair share of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce&nbsp;Schneier <\/a>(world-renowned security expert) I came to this conclusion: statistically the biggest threat we faced was driving. Whenever I got behind he wheel, the real risk to us shot up (albeit from practically nothing to something hovering just above). The way in which I drove, how well prepared Dave was, the conditions we drove in and the way those around us drove were all far more likely to impact our safety than the risk of someone stealing our stuff. This was (and remains) a welcoming thought, since much of this stuff we can&nbsp;influence directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But having said all of that, I&#8217;m still threatened by theft. I&#8217;ll face up to it. I&#8217;m far, far more threatened by the idea of not doing the things I dream about than losing some stuff I can (if I really needed to) replace, but all the same, we don&#8217;t fancy being targeted. So what do we plan to do to try and reduce chances of a break-in. Much of this was learned last time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Don&#8217;t go to the thieves.<\/strong> Sounds daft I know, but if I were a thief I&#8217;d want the least possible effort to get as much&nbsp;swag as I could with as little risk as possible, lazy swine that I am. I&#8217;d want the van to come to me, to be easily accessible, to be observable so I can see the occupants leave, to have no alarm and to be easy to get away from. Where are these places? I honestly have no idea, but can guess at some: tourist attraction car parks, service areas on non-toll roads and streets in cities (we use secure parking for cities in particular).<\/li><li><strong>Expect to be broken into.<\/strong> Live day to day as though you&#8217;ll come back to the van and find it emptied, or even gone. Harsh, I know, but this Armageddon-scenario thinking worked for us. If there&#8217;s something you&#8217;d need in that scenario, you need it on your person when you&#8217;re out and about. Passports, credit cards, cash, SD card with photos, maybe your laptop. Yup, could mean someone&#8217;s more likely to mug you, but again playing the villain, I&#8217;d rather nick from an empty van than a wild-eyed, bearded and un-washed gibbon boy (aka, moi).<\/li><li><strong>Hide our&nbsp;wares.<\/strong> We draw the blinds or curtains whenever we stop and both of us leave the van. That way the robbers can&#8217;t see your flash telly, or be 100% sure you&#8217;re not in there, waiting with that AK-47 you got at motorhomesurvivor.com (I made that website up). Note that I&#8217;ve come across others who suggest the exact opposite: take valuables with you, hide everything else in cupboards and leave the blinds and curtains open.<\/li><li><strong>Play our own game.<\/strong> We would pull down Dave&#8217;s overcab bed when we were doubtful about security, and use the cushions to make it look like someone was asleep under the duvet. We&#8217;d leave a curtain open a tiny bit so you could see this. We wrote hand-written notes in the local language saying &#8216;beware of the dog&#8217; and stuck them in the window (yes, we did actually have a dog, but might have been better protected by a Guard Hamster). Other folks tie a dog lead to the step, or leave an old pair of shoes and a dog bowl there. Whatever works for you &#8211; the more innovative the better.<\/li><li><strong>Use our gut feeling, or just as someone.<\/strong> Let&#8217;s face it, if you&#8217;ve a black belt in karate, you&#8217;re maybe going to feel safer parked up overnight in a car park in Italy than the likes of us will. Everyone&#8217;s idea of what &#8216;feels safe&#8217; is going to be different, but no harm in going on your gut feeling if there&#8217;s nothing else to go on. On the other hand, if there&#8217;s a tourist info office, police station or fellow vanner or two knocking about, we&#8217;ll just ask them.<\/li><li><strong>Don&#8217;t be mugs.<\/strong> Zagan has a Strikeback alarm, and it&#8217;ll be on whenever we&#8217;re out. A deadlock on the door, which will go on even if we&#8217;re leaving him for a minute to eyeball the local Lidl&#8217;s opening hours. Keys, obviously, will remain glued to my grubby paw and never left in the ignition. Our velvet bags of black diamonds will remain in the security vault in Switzerland (ahem).<\/li><li><strong>C&#8217;mon, c&#8217;mon let&#8217;s stick together.<\/strong> Where there were other vans, we felt safer on the basis they&#8217;d probably look out for us as we would&nbsp;for them. This didn&#8217;t stop us parking up alone though, we did that a lot, especially in rural spots.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Any thoughts on crafty way to deceive the thieves gratefully received &#8211; drop &#8217;em in the comments below?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve met folks who&#8217;ve had their motorhome broken in to. 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