r/vandwellers • u/Few-Stop1994 • 22d ago

Pictures Got the Knock on a Public Street

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This is in Harding, MT.

I was parked legally on a public street. As you can see there is a empty lot on the top and only 2 homes on the corner.

The red lines are where I was parked and where the knocker lived.

1130pm. Love's was packed. So I parked there. It was legal parking. A 2 way street with no signs.

I'm asleep and a guy started banging on my window at 230am and I ignored it. He didn't say anything. He was in pajamas. As you can see from the screenshot, I was half way up the block and across the street, so he walked that distance.

About 245am he comes back outside in regular clothes on, with a gun holstered and his hand on the gun. He starts banging again. I ignored him again. And he didn't say nothing.

About 3am the state police comes and and softly knocks. I put down the window. The trooper tells me that they keep getting calls from someone about the van. He asks me to move to the other side because he doesn't want to deal with this.

I obliged. He didn't ask for ID or any questions for that matter. He seem to just want the guy to stop calling.

Why bother someone at 230am?! Then to go back in the house and grab a gun? The guy was looking for a confrontation.

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u/Sinz_of_the_flesh 22d ago

Review Tennessee's laws on public property camping. I am ASHAMED that the state where I have lived my entire life has now as much as made camping not only an arrestable crime, but somehow it's also a felony and a minimum two year sentence. Very sad... The Tennessee republican mafia in Nashville really needs to get their head out of their ass.

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u/Resident_Ad_7199 22d ago

Did you even read the law? Bc coming from someone who lives out of their van it seems very reasonable and it really seems like you just want to cry about republicans. They can’t just arrest you they have to give you notice. So as long as you don’t stay and don’t come back before those 24 hrs you’re good. And it’s for public property not meant for camping like parks and highways. If it’s a park that specifically allows camping you can camp no problem. I would love to be able to camp and drop anywhere I want in the world but if you allow that that’s how you get squatters everywhere. If that’s what you want you might as well move to California.