Noisy campers

Noisy campers

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surveyor

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17,768 posts

183 months

Monday 20th June 2016
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If you were one of our neighbours on BSJ, you should be disgusted with yourself.

Massive speakers pumping out techno music at nightclub levels all hours of the day. Friday night this went through to 7am sat morning.

It's not fair on other campers.

Further calrification

We did mention it to the group, but to no effect.

Fortunately security were wandering around after a theft on Saturday. After most of the campers within an acre of the group complained they did sort it, and it calmed down a bit.

I really can't understand how these groups can behave like this and not notice the massive disruption that they cause.

Petrolhead_Rich

4,659 posts

191 months

Monday 20th June 2016
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surveyor said:
I really can't understand how these groups can behave like this and not care about the massive disruption that they cause.
rolleyes

Think this is the issue, I guess to them it's just a campsite where they can have a rave without being shut down by the police?? They didn't seem interested in the motorsport?

AdamIndy

1,661 posts

103 months

Monday 20th June 2016
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Typical of a lot of Motorsport events unfortunately.

Similar happened to us at oulton park(different to Le Mans I know). Tent next to us with music wailing to the early hours(4am) and a 6 cylinder E30 BMW getting stood on the limiter with the exhaust pointing at the side of our tent.

Following day they seem to have slept through the racing.

No point talking to them, you can't educate pork.

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 20th June 2016
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Another completely different experience.

In Sweden last year,a lovely lake sided camp site,actually so many lakes there ,most camp sites are next to water.

Yoofs in tent next to me wouldn't STFU talking into small hours.

The next night I wild camped near the world rally cross venue and the fast flowing river was too noisy....irked

williamp

19,213 posts

272 months

Monday 20th June 2016
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To be expected I'm afraid. Loud music has happened every year I've been. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes unlucky with the neighbours. Generators are another annoying noise late at night.

One time our neighbours had two VW cmaper vans, playing bag german dance music. When I
one battery went flat, they used the other stereo. When that went flat, we had silence. Plums

We were unlucky enough to be next to the "race, what race" pistonheads lot back in 2007. I wont dwell on what they were like.

Only solution I've found is to sleep with decent headphones/ ear defenders on.

The Wolf

105 posts

110 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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I don't go to Le Mans without earplugs and bose headphones anyway.
Helps to sleep when I need to and stream Radio Le Mans when I don't.

We were at PH campsite, same neighbours as past 3 years and I'm afraid we were the loudest, hopefully not too disturbing though we are mostly at the track anyway during raceday/night.

SEE YA

3,522 posts

244 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Was it just me that plank with the airhorn as well at BJ?

Le_Mans

237 posts

271 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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We had an issue in Houx on Sunday night with our near neigbours deciding to blast out tunes at max volume until 5 o'clock...

13m

26,271 posts

221 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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This sort of post seems to appear every year. Isn't noise-related antisocial behaviour a known quantity and therefore an accepted risk when going to Le Mans?

surveyor

Original Poster:

17,768 posts

183 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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13m said:
This sort of post seems to appear every year. Isn't noise-related antisocial behaviour a known quantity and therefore an accepted risk when going to Le Mans?
It's our 5th year. We know what to expect.

These clowns had brought a full on sound system that would have served very well on a music stage at Wembley. No-one bothered with their own music - it would be drowned out. Same for conversation really.

CardShark

4,190 posts

178 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Wednesday night on Epinettes we had our nearish French neighbours pumping out bass heavy "music" until the early hours, Thursday was OK, Friday was woken by some tit bouncing his car off the limiter at 5am, Sat and Sun were OK again. We were off site until around 5am Sat night / Sun morning though so may have missed some of it.

Expect the worst whilst hoping for the best, it can be a bit of a lottery.

eps

6,272 posts

268 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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CardShark said:
Wednesday night on Epinettes we had our nearish French neighbours pumping out bass heavy "music" until the early hours, Thursday was OK, Friday was woken by some tit bouncing his car off the limiter at 5am, Sat and Sun were OK again. We were off site until around 5am Sat night / Sun morning though so may have missed some of it.

Expect the worst whilst hoping for the best, it can be a bit of a lottery.
We were there as well, they were at it every night until 4 or 5. I don't mind music until 1 or possibly 2 but FFS the main event is the race and whilst you do expect some of it, it shouldn't be accepted - although I was far too tired to bother getting up and had earplugs in for the first time ever. Usually most of them burn themselves out on their first night and then calm down until Friday... and then you don't see them as they're too wasted to get up for the race and usually seem to be back at the campsite at whatever time you happen to walk past their pitches...

I think it was the Polo that was bouncing off it's limiter at 5am or so - well done.

Most people on Epinettes were decent - we had a good chat with some German fans who had been coming since '87 and a pair of French chaps who were consuming far too much JD and big cigarettes.

CardShark

4,190 posts

178 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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eps said:
I think it was the Polo that was bouncing off it's limiter at 5am or so - well done.
The heavily modified blue one? I wouldn't have guessed it was that, in my tent it sounded like it was elsewhere on the site. The red Jetta with the Barry-boy exhaust had its limiter tested during the afternoon/evening at one point, that I do remember. We were only a couple of rows across from them, had a silver TVR T350 between us and them.

Nigel_O

2,858 posts

218 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Wasn't too bad on the Glamping site at Porsche Curves, but some tw4t decided to start Mad Friday early by drifting on the roundabout at 7:00am... rolleyes

captainsl0w

69 posts

122 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Nigel_O said:
Wasn't too bad on the Glamping site at Porsche Curves, but some tw4t decided to start Mad Friday early by drifting on the roundabout at 7:00am... rolleyes
We were there too and heard that, fortunately there wasnt much of it at all and i barely heard a peep from BSJ roundabout which was strange.

We always go to Porsche Curves as it seems to price out the knobs for the most part. One thing I did resent at PC was that group in the giant white gala tent, that sodding generator ran pretty much constantly and it was loud - inconsiderate. Other than that it was fine

Great Dane

2,719 posts

165 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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eps said:
We were there as well, they were at it every night until 4 or 5. I don't mind music until 1 or possibly 2 but FFS the main event is the race and whilst you do expect some of it, it shouldn't be accepted - although I was far too tired to bother getting up and had earplugs in for the first time ever. Usually most of them burn themselves out on their first night and then calm down until Friday... and then you don't see them as they're too wasted to get up for the race and usually seem to be back at the campsite at whatever time you happen to walk past their pitches...

I think it was the Polo that was bouncing off it's limiter at 5am or so - well done.

Most people on Epinettes were decent - we had a good chat with some German fans who had been coming since '87 and a pair of French chaps who were consuming far too much JD and big cigarettes.
I was there when they moved in.... reallocated myself and demonstratively dragged my pop tent past them to my new site.... Epinettes is noit numbered so you can move

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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I got an applause from some grumpy English campers near me... on Tet Rouge.
About 10AM on the Thursday I gently started the car up and had it running on tickover for about 45min drying everything out, had the bonnet up and we dried our towels, jeans, shoes etc, then I dried out the friendly Danes towels towels next to us, the Viper Engine makes a great dryer hehe When we finally turned the engine off the muppets near us then sent up a cheer and applause in a sarcastic way rolleyes

As for the Tosser who was revving his 4 cylinder engine the night before redlining the thing over and over, I wish I could have found your tent, I would have backed up the viper to it and let you have the full 127db rage

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Silverstone can be much worse.

After previous experiences of the toilets, I took a toilet tent with a chemical toilet. The idea of privacy and my own loo was a pleasant thought.

Except: on returning to my tent one evening there was a queue outside my toilet tent.

They were reluctant to clear off, one stating that he was only going to have a pee.


Tran

18 posts

95 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Nigel_O said:
Wasn't too bad on the Glamping site at Porsche Curves, but some tw4t decided to start Mad Friday early by drifting on the roundabout at 7:00am... rolleyes
Did it sound like an SR20? A couple of those would pull a premium the day before race wars.

paulyv

1,017 posts

122 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Derek Smith said:
Silverstone can be much worse.

After previous experiences of the toilets, I took a toilet tent with a chemical toilet. The idea of privacy and my own loo was a pleasant thought.

Except: on returning to my tent one evening there was a queue outside my toilet tent.

They were reluctant to clear off, one stating that he was only going to have a pee.
This is the funniest post I have read on this forum!