Anti Social Alcohol fueled problems.?

Too true, but unfortunately, to escape it, you'll have to go even futher out into the scrub..

Hi Axle,

It's difficult to imagine that people will give up the city nightclubs for country camp grounds. I've done a lot of camping and the number of times I've had any real problems can be counted on one hand. Get out there and don't worry about what might happen.

TJ...

I've been regularly bush camping for several decades and in all that time have never had a problem with hoons until just prior to Easter while camped with several others nearCoffs Harbour we were harrassed by several juiced up idiots who roared through our camp in a 4x4. They did this three times during the course of the night screaming abuse, blowing the horn and narrowly missing our vans etc as they careered thru the campsite.
I'm not easily scared but it was unsettling, what is it with these wankers ?
We reported it to the local police who were understanding but could do little.
Alcohol fuelled of course,

rr

sure is happening already. 4WD idiots fueled with alcohol no consideration for others or the environment. Loud music and morons with generators. Many camp ground have been abandoned by families and oldies. Unfortunately we have fast become the no consideration for others country. Generators should be banned along with alcohol at any camp site and portable toilets made mandatory.

"is now starting to spill out----" ive been noticing it for decades!!

I was trying to arrange a "family" weekend get together at a camping spot central to Canberra, Sydney and the south coast. I was warned not to go anywhere close to Nowra along the Shoalhaven River as it can be noisy and attracts the local alcohol fuelled hoons.

We all changed our mind and went to Cape York as a family run instead.

We also had a couple of the same race through a club outing in the Vic Alps just after Christmas.

Phil

Just a tad north of where we planned. An excellent drive. If you get the chance you should drive the Starckie Track as well.

We didn't have any hoon trouble up there.

Catchya

Phil

Hi Axle

We had a huge weekend, organizing a joint 21st party (in the city) with emphasis on 4wds bikes, the bush lots of loud music and alcohol.

We considered a lot of things in organizing this, as there was massive potential for things to go wrong.

We decided that the best tool to keep things in line was peer pressure.
A venue that wasn't within site of a main road was used (avioding cruising cars of all types).

From one point of view you probably could have issued a hundred tickets for unroadworthy trucks/cars and various low grade offences.

Two or three times things could have headed in the wrong direction - but knowing who the groups were and getting a mate within that groups circle to smooth things along and not coming on with heavy authority saw
the whole event go exceedingly well and I was proud of the 150 young adults as a whole.

In relation to your post, I am not suggesting that campers create the problem, but rather that our society as a whole tends to exaggerate "them and us" attitudes by breeding violence(often legal) which invokes a reaction.

Every time I see a call for " No Tolerance", "Ban this", "Ban that", I think here we go again, another nail has been in the coffin of no consideration for others.