This sounds like a blow for the good guys as unfortunately we were victim to a rather nasty attack by the pikies. Having left the site on Sunday night at about 5 to go for a quick dinner in Arnage (we had left nothing of significant value, a couple of chairs, some cooking utensils, a trangia, a table - all of which had been placed in our tent -luckily all our valuables were either locked in the boot of the car which was with us or on our person), when we left our pitch was well surrounded by neighbours - none of whom looked like they were leaving anytime soon. When we returned we found they destroyed our gazebos, stolen our chairs, table, trangia, bottled water, coca cola, utensils, Carrefour BBQ and a few other items but had left the few items worth nicking (a nice penknife, electric shaver). They had rummaged through our clothes bags.
Now here is what annoyed me - the way the campsites are going on a Sunday night with the security completely abandoning the site even though the site is advertised as being open till Monday a few thefts is almost inevitable - when we retuned our immediate neighbours had packed up but the site was still pretty busy. When I asked several pitches who had a clear view of the wrecked gazebos I was met with the we didn't see anything and a shrug of the shoulders, but there were a few guilty looks exchanged when I questioned them if they had seen anything. The gazebos were trashed it was not a silent attack. I finally found out what had happened when our German neighbour who was an old man on his own whose tent was pitched directly behind ours explained that he saw 3 french speaking teenagers of African descent was his phrase when he approached them to question them they got aggressive so he backed off. I don't blame him, he was 60+ and on his own. Who I do blame was the massive group of British lads who were within 50 yds of it and must of noticed and didn't intervene - however they were to busy digging up the field doing donuts, starting toxic fires, and throwing fireworks into said fire and hence shattering another groups tail light.
We had two girls with us - one of whom it was her first time and she is was pretty shaken up by the whole thing so I ended up taking the decision to cut our losses and clear off. We ended up checking into the Le Mans Nord Formule 1.
It was a sad end to a great weekend. I plan to send a strongly worded letter to the ACO regarding the campsite security as someone is going to get hurt or arrested by accident. Later I caught two kids rummaging through next doors rubbish after they had left - and I gave them some pretty harsh tongue lashing in proper angry Glaswegian. Turns out they were Danish kids from nearby who were just getting the water pistols they had left - it could of been a nasty incident if I had really lost my rag with them. It would then be me who would be speaking to the police.
