A camper set up his tent overnight on someone else’s property. He ignored the homeowner’s requests until the police got involved.
In Dartford, a town in the south-east of England, a family experienced a shocking surprise. As the Mirror reports, 38-year-old Erika White discovered early in the morning that an unknown man had set up his tent in her front garden.
“My youngest son looked out the window to check the weather and said to me, ‘Mom, there’s a tent out there,'” White told the Mirror. The tent almost covered the entire front yard. White, a financial analyst and mother of three, decided to confront the intruder.
With respect and diplomacy, she asked the camper to leave her property: “‘Excuse me, do you know that you are in a tent in my front yard? Could you please move?'” But to her surprise, the sleepy camper ignored her polite request and made himself comfortable in his tent with a huge piece of strawberry cake.
White’s door camera also hadn’t detected any movement. This led White to believe that the unknown camper had initially set up his tent elsewhere and then moved it onto her property under the cover of darkness. She remembers hearing noises around 5 a.m. that she assumed were her clothes dryer.
Only when White threatened to call the police did the camper pack up his things and leave the property. “He looked well-groomed and did not appear to be homeless, which made the whole thing even more confusing,” she said, according to the Mirror.
The fact that camping on private property does not always have to end unpleasantly is demonstrated by a camping trend that is currently spreading in Germany: microcamping. As the “Südwest Presse” reports, microcamping offers campers the opportunity to spend the night on private property for a small fee – an attractive alternative to conventional campsites, especially in times of rising prices.
This allows campers to experience extraordinary places such as wineries, farms or remote meadows. In times when the camping industry is seeing price increases of up to ten percent, travelers can save significantly by micro-camping.
“These small fees for overnight stays make it an affordable and charming alternative to traditional camping,” industry expert Christian Günther told the “Südwest Presse”.
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