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reminds me of Legacy Open Air Festival 2009 in germany….my tent looked like this after the storm
Was he trying to patch holes in his tent with black tape, or trying to spell something out in Chinese?
The seaweed sheet on top makes me think it’s Japanese writing.
I’m starting to think their tent is supposed to look like a giant onigiri.
It’s actually the hiragana for “Fragile tent- do not touch”
In Chinese it says, “Damn Mosquitoes”
When written in Chinese, the word kludge is composed of two characters.
One represents problem, and the other represents duct tape.
WIN.
I think someone had food in there tent and a bear thought they would crash the party.
In true pioneer spirit, the Johnson Family perservered even after their tent was run over by the mowing crew at the campground.
To be fair, the mower was on crutches:
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/06/08/epic-kludge-photo-long-arm-of-the-mower/#comments
Is that a tent entrance for the cat???
Raccoons. This is camping.
People are already lining up for tickets to There, I Fixed It: The Movie.
Sounds like a big-screen version of Home Improvement to me.
Pretty fly for a white… tent?
I see Safeway bags. That makes it even better
In Montana, this is the “after” picture of a tent in Glacier or Yellowstone where they didn’t store the food properly.
All that remained was the pair of scrappy Safeway bags…
fail title, that tent has been used way too much to belong to a camping newbie.
From the Paranoid Outdoorsman’s Survival Guide:
Make sure your tent has a proper tin-foil cap. Also, it helps to put a sign reading Keep Away in the Andromedites’ native language.
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Also, it helps to put a sign reading Keep Away in the Andromedites’ native language on the outside of your tent.
And make your door really, really small so it is more easily defensible.
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from the size of the orange door frame, I’d say it’s a cat tent. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that it’d be regularly patched after intense scratching sessions. You have to admire the mastery of that particular feline in duct-taping plastic bags. It is an extremely difficult skill, and the quest for its mastery has cost dearly to generations of cats, culminating with that Egyptian breed incident.
Does the cat tent get chased by pup tents?
That will definitely keep the rain and wind out…as long as there is no rain, or wind.
Ahh, I see you’ve been camping before. Every preparation is best before the prepared for event actually happens.
Lois, run to the car and see if you have one of those rain bonnets I can slap on here. . .I think one more piece of plastic will do it.
The loser of the Japanese kite battles
This is the one they’re referring to when they say “pitch a tent”.
The other tent must be using those special blue pills…
check the door. “hey Alice, how the hell do I get out of here? Do I drink from the bottle or eat the little cake? I’m late for a very important date.”
I think this is a field patch job on a tent, not a newbie.
Emo tent is … emo.
The headline for this kludge is all wrong, it should say:
” Cannabis Newbies Are Always Easy To Spot”.
Rookie misstakes:
1) A tent wont let the sun through which is crucial.
2) No, placing a solar cell plugin on top wont help either if no ultra violet light is attached to it.
3) Duct tape the peek through holes will only makes things more suspicious.
4) Having the entrance hole kept at a minimum will not keep keep the DEA dogs of guard. They operate on smell, not on vision.
the title obviously refers to the tent in the back…you know, the pristine right-out-of-the-box-looking one.
You just know that if a storm blows through, the kludged one will be the only one left standing…
this guy is soooo not from seattle. we use tarps.
wait is it me seeing Japanese kanji in these tapes? o_O
I’m getting nervous looking at this picture because it’s too tense.
Sorry for the campy comment.
Wearing your tinfoil hat at night is uncomfortable, especially when camping. Protect the whole family from Aliens, Government Mind-Control Devices and even Crazy Neighbors with “We Camp In Peace” foil tent cover (patent pending). Comes with Alien hieroglyphics that spell out “Eat the people in the other tent” Free with Purchase!!
In retrospect, the tent really should have had a morning cup of coffee BEFORE it shaved.
That is the decoy tent. Keep the food in there so the bears eat the food in that tent not the people in the real tent. Bears don’t camp the same way we do so they don’t know if it is real tent or not. Brilliant!
Isn’t the metal shiny thing on top actually one of those warming blankets runners wrap themselves in after a marathon? Sometimes I think they put them in car emergency kits.
It’s amazing how many people camp like this! In this particular case, I don’t think that moon roof will be very effective. I’m totally seeing the Japanese writing in the black tape. I wonder dry this camper managed to stay?
I pretty sure that’s chinese for “Need new tent”
I can relate (minus the electrical tape). We had a leak in our tent during a Texas spring thunderstorm, so we put a tarp over it. It was like sleeping in a potato chip bag with a hungry raccoon trying to get in! Didn’t sleep a wink.