Caravanners warned of 'simple' trick used against them by thieves
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All right, you want to hear a crazy story.
All right, so I had a customer once, this was a few years ago, come to me to see if there was a solution for these doors, as they were up in the middle of Australia and camping overnight, and in the middle of the night, they had someone ransack their whole awning area and take all their stuff, their fridges and their barbecues.
And pretty much everything they had outside.
Out.
And I couldnt get out of the caravan because of this, this trick.
So hes probably want to see this.
So, now, as the doors locked, Im gonna close the door.
Theres a guy inside the van.
Im gonna close the door, and hes gonna lock it for us.
So.
So the door handle goes flush on these cammic doors.
So, basically what happened to them is somebody came up, got a piece of paper, and then they clicked the door handle closed, and now as Carl will demonstrate, hes trying to unlock the door right now, and he cant flick the door handle out, so hes stuck in the caravan.
So, well pull the ladder out.
You can open it now?
The door handle flicks open and you can open the doors, so.
Its a pretty crazy story, and its something Ive always just thought about.
And, uh, yeah, I dont know if anyone with these cammic door handles, which these doors were used on, um, they were introduced in 19, 1999, 2000.
So every van from 2000 onwards, um, or the majority of them were using these doors.
So, there are a lot of them out there.
Its a little weird paper trick.
So yeah, just something to keep in mind when youre out there camping.
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