Another Classic RV August 21, 2018, 06:24:34 am Taken from Where Are The Dixon's Today blogWe saw this rig in the Helena Walmart parking lot. It does have a current Montana license plate but boy is it scary to think it is on the road somewhere. 6 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #1 – August 21, 2018, 10:44:39 am Heaven forfend that the less fortunate intrude on our idyllic lifestyle."Are there no prisons?" 1 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #2 – August 21, 2018, 12:34:13 pm Better fix that door before the snow flies. Doubt it would make it to AZ for Quartzite.
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #3 – August 21, 2018, 01:22:51 pm I wonder what their story is. They are human just like the rest of us. 7 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #4 – August 21, 2018, 03:42:42 pm I dunno that thing looks like a hazard to me and if I was a cop I'd pull it over. 2 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #5 – August 21, 2018, 04:42:32 pm They are probably related to these folks and moving to Californy:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzaxUF0k18
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #6 – August 21, 2018, 06:11:08 pm Slightly related to debris on the road....Years ago the state of California near Mission Viejo on 5, (contractor?) dropped a 4x4 about 8' long off of an overpass just in front of me. Fortunately it settled lengthwise and stopped bouncing before I went directly over it (at 65+ mph). I always wondered what happened to the car(s) behind me. I'm glad I didn't hit it mid windshield high!! RonB
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #7 – August 21, 2018, 06:38:05 pm I suppose that sad and dilapidated RV is better than living under a bridge. We saw an older Class C a few years ago in about the same condition with a young family of six. Their RV was covered in heavy tape of some sort with a dozen or more 90 degree angle brackets. We crossed paths with them several times over the next week and they were having a great time.Margee and I have talked about that family and their rough RV many times. What more could a young family ask than to be together, traveling, and having fun? 8 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #8 – August 21, 2018, 07:04:19 pm "They are human just like the rest of us."Yes. And it's no crime to be poor. It is, however, a crime to operate an unsafe vehicle, because it endangers everyone on the road. Poor is one thing. Irresponsible is another. Anyone driving that RV is irresponsible. 9 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #9 – August 21, 2018, 07:23:44 pm My family background has a rich heritage of making do and stuff like this can be both funny and tragic at the same time. The RV is funny - I feel for the inhabitant(s). I would spend precisely zero time following this missile of danger. 3 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #10 – August 22, 2018, 01:14:39 pm Several years ago, we were in the Glacier National Park area and wandered around a bit. Following some signs to a "campground" we saw TWO older red and white LD, among other rigs of all sorts , all in very poor condition rough camping. Not quite this decrepit. A man came out and stood with great attitude. The message was clear: Nothing to see here, keep moving. We turned around and left. It was heartbreaking to see any LD in such poor condition. None of the rigs would be adequate shelter in winter so they must have hit the road at some point. Scary.
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #11 – August 22, 2018, 02:44:31 pm LA is filling up with these derelicts, as well as many other spots on the West Coast. Saw a lot of them in Portland a few weeks ago. Up and down the coast, old RV parks are full of rigs too decrepit to move anymore.The occupants seems to fall into three classes, older folks who retirement funds have run out, the mentally ill and the most disconcerting group, young, able-body people who have dropped out. Our neighborhood was starting to fill with them until last year, when new RV parking regulations were enacted, outlawing them in residential streets and confining them to industrial areas. Now our business parks are becoming third-world slums with old rigs and piles of trash.Whatever the cause, these rigs are a hazard on the road and to the health of many around them. Dumping their holding tanks in the gutters or storm drains has become common around us.Interesting that in a country with so many homeless or near homeless, there are tens of thousand of high-end vacation homes that sit empty 90% of the time. Larry 6 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #12 – August 22, 2018, 11:18:05 pm It may seem like fun to ridicule the poors and their shabby houses, but does this make us better human beings? Homelessness sucks. Poverty sucks. You would be amazed how quickly that can happen to anyone, no matter how smart or careful or educated or well off you are. Not all of it is the result of bad choices or stupid decisions. Sometimes it really is just plain rotten luck. If it happens to you, and you manage eventually to get yourself back out of poverty and homelessness, it doesn't mean you're superior in any way to those who don't make it. I don't know how to fix the problem. Poverty is complicated, otherwise we'd have solved it by now. 2 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #13 – August 23, 2018, 09:11:20 am What you say is true, fu. But it's no excuse to drive an unsafe vehicle.
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #14 – August 23, 2018, 12:45:05 pm So call the cops if it upsets you that much, same as you would for a drunk driver. Get their home impounded and crushed along with everything they own. Put them back on the street to deal with whatever misfortunes got them there in the first place. Make those lazy poors suffer for offending your first world sensibilities.Or offer to take them shopping for a safe rig that's roadworthy. Seriously, there are a ton of cheap RVs out there for way less than $5000, which most any of us with our late model RVs, houses, cars, cell phones, internet access, computers, satellite TV, food, jobs with benefits, etc. can afford to part with to help someone deal with an emergency. What better way to choose what kind of people we are when we see a problem that can be solved with kindness and a bit of cash? 1 Likes
Re: Another Classic RV Reply #15 – August 23, 2018, 02:11:44 pm We've seen a variety of opinions in this thread regarding the homeless and mechanically dangerous RVs. This would be a good time to move on to another topic.Thanks!Chris 8 Likes
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