r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SmoothSun6676 • 16h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/TheVandyyMan 14h ago

People don’t bother sprinter vans parked in conspicuous areas overnight. They call the police on campers and caravans.

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u/CornDoggyStyle 14h ago

Sounds reasonable, but now their sprinter van looks like a camper, so doesn't that defeat the purpose? lol

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u/therestruth 4h ago

Hardly. As long as the roof isn't popped up you can be pretty clueless whether someone is on there or not and their intentions. There's one that parks in the lot by a hospital and it took me quite a while until seeing their door open for airflow that someone was staying there at all. Probably a traveling nurse.

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u/Clark_Kent-Kal_EL 13h ago

This would more obviously be somewhere where someone lives tho.

You can always more easily costumize a camper so it doesn't look like one

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u/NoPleaseDont 10h ago

They would with a whole bedroom on the roof....

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u/MessiLeagueSoccer 9h ago

There’s definitely chats or pages where people share where it’s safe to park or free to park a camper or van like this one. A shopping plaza I would frequently pass through would always have a few campers scattered around. They technically weren’t allowed but most days nobody bothered to kick them out and as long as they didn’t set up anything outside making it more obvious it just looked liked “parked cars”. You’d even see the occasional 18 wheeler with cargo parked in the same areas.

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u/Notwerk_Engineer 7h ago

That’s why they did this? Camping in Walmart parking lots?