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Beware the Caravan Gas Bandits

August 20, 2007 at 8:46 AM | 0 Comments

We've heard this criminal strategy often works on overnight trains, but a warning this week from the British Foreign Office tells us that nasty crimes in France are also using this trick: the gassed-while-you-sleep idea where you wake up and discover all your most prized possessions have disappeared.

So be careful if you take a caravan or camper to France, especially if you decide to save a few euro by sleeping on the side of the road. There have been several incidents where tourists sleeping in roadside rest areas have woken up to discover they've been robbed. As one victim explained, "When we woke up everything was gone and we had a really woozy feeling". So stay in an official campsite and make sure any woozy feeling you wake up with simply comes from too much French wine, rather than the actions of thieves.

Related Stories:
· Beware Sleeping Gas Gang [Telegraph]
· Weird Thief at Melbourne Exhibition [Jaunted]
· Stop Thief! He's Got My Hair! [Jaunted]

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