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Old 08-05-2016, 11:02 AM   #1
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RV Parks and bombs.

Here's an article I just read about finding an RV (motor home) with bombs and bomb making materials. This kind of scary given how close RV Parks put rigs together.
Here's the article.
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bombs and bomb making materials
Like propane tanks and batteries?
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Like propane tanks and batteries?

All I can say is read the article before you make intelligent comments. I just fixed the link.
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That was kind of scary, they said he was giving away money the day before, he sure had a lot of bombs!
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If you are going to worry about having somebody with mental health issues camped beside you, you will never leave home. And then you can worry about your neighbours. Not sure why this incident is such a concern. Just stay out of Arizona.
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If you are going to worry about having somebody with mental health issues camped beside you, you will never leave home. And then you can worry about your neighbours. Not sure why this incident is such a concern. Just stay out of Arizona.
Good advice. Since you can't stop the crazies , it is best to avoid them. The problem is my list of states to avoid is getting really long.
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Good advice. Since you can't stop the crazies , it is best to avoid them. The problem is my list of states to avoid is getting really long.

I think the best way to avoid these kind of crazies is to avoid RV Parks. Look at how close the sites to each other. That's a red flag to me. If you're going to try and avoid crazies by avoiding States you might as well stay home.
My concern is with the closeness of the sites and the RVs including our trailers to each other. A fire in one can spread quite rapidly to the next and the next etc. etc. or bomb going off can destroy several at once.

It's nothing to get really excited, but just be aware.
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I guess I'm more likely to be worried about the firearms in the vehicles next to me than any bomb materials. I work hard not to antagonize my neighbors! Just my two cents...
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My concern is with the closeness of the sites and the RVs including our trailers to each other. A fire in one can spread quite rapidly to the next and the next etc. etc. or bomb going off can destroy several at once.
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Back to propane tanks and batteries.
Of course there's always the potential for being crushed by somebody opening their slides.
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Back to propane tanks and batteries.
Of course there's always the potential for being crushed by somebody opening their slides.
Yup, if we're all luck one will blow up......
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Let see how many decades have I been camping, how many times have I even heard of a bomber with explosives camping near me? This story makes 1 and.... oh that's it.


Risk is a function of probability and potential. So yes a bomb in a camper in a tight packed campground has a lot of "potential" to do harm but he probability that one will be there is really really slim. Now people that seem just a bit "off" are a bit more common in my estimation.
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About as common as somebody on this forum needing this article:
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What it's Worth. Nearly 50 years later it's all still true. I cannot live my life in fear. Paranoia strikes deep, into you life it will creep.
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If you're going to try and avoid crazies by avoiding States you might as well stay home.
I try to stay home as much as I can. But the times I do have to go to the store i go at night when there's no one around. I just can't stand how stupid everyone is.
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Nothing is impossible.
Some things are just less probable than others.
You aren't even safe in your own home:

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My solution is to just not worry about stuff like this. I feel the remoteness of something like this ecer affecting me is so extremely slim, plus there is little I could do about it anyway, that I prefer having an non-stressed disposition.

Besides, I have a wife who does enough worrying for the both of us.
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Besides, I have a wife who does enough worrying for the both of us.
I found the article to be very interesting. I'm glad I read all the comments, ending up with this one. I kept going back and reading it again, laughing every time. Reminds me of someone I know!
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Kevin I get the feeling that everyone in the USa packs!

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I guess I'm more likely to be worried about the firearms in the vehicles next to me than any bomb materials. I work hard not to antagonize my neighbors! Just my two cents...
: just about everything
I read or see on line in the USA is guns and more guns. You drive through any town or City and in the middle of it all every 2nd store is a gun store.
Now if you lived where i live the only time u see a gun is hunting season or possibly the week before and the week after first to get your equipment ready for the hunt at end clean it all up before storing and making sure no bullets left in Rifles or Pistols that they are absolutely empty, Pistol goes into one lock box, bullets in another and locked away so if the find one then don't have the other. Same goes for Rifles all is locked up and one needs special tools to get at the.
We can carry but a permit is needed and u have to pretty special to be able to carry. My cousin 2 gun Jim can carry but if he is caught removing his gun from it's holster he can be heavily fined but he is allowed to do so a Gun shows where he is in competition.
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I guess I'm more likely to be worried about the firearms in the vehicles next to me than any bomb materials. I work hard not to antagonize my neighbors! Just my two cents...
Twice in my life I've had individuals point loaded handguns at me in a threatening manner and I do not relish the memory. If a fire destroys my trailer , I have insurance . If someone has a bomb , I probably will have no knowledge of the bomb and have no control over the situation
I have no intentions of staying home as Byron suggested but I will avoid places where there is a known danger.. Certain area / states in the US are statistically more dangerous than others , mostly large cities . On several occasions , I have seen individuals carrying firearms and consuming alcohol at the same time. That is a far scarier situation than the chance someone will come into a campgrounds with a trailer full of explosives.
I play the odds and avoid areas / states where the odds are not in my favor .
Heading to Canada in August and I am not concerned about our safety while visiting our neighbor to the North .I cannot say the same thing about many of the US states.
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