I've got a good one for this. When my son was in high school he was on the shooting team and they had a competition at one of the large shooting ranges in Texas about 4 hours from our home. Imagine 4 different sporting clays courses and many trap and skeet fields at this place, so it covers hundreds of acres. They allow camping in RVs in the parking lots, but I had to work during most of the multi-day event so I could only run up for a day, stay the night and then head home the next day, so I didn't want to drag an RV for 4 hours each way, just for me on that one night (my son was staying with a friend and his family). Since I knew there was wooded areas on the grounds I thought: "I will just bring my hammock and throw back in the woods after dark and nobody will be harmed". I did not really want to ask for permission because we all know the default answer would be no, but I knew it would not hurt anything. So after my sons portion of the competion was done, and darkness fell, I found a spot back in a wooded area, set up the hammock (Camo Argon from Dutch, Camo underquilt, and camo DCF tarp) and crashed. Some of the shooting continued at a lighted portion of the course until around midnight, but it was far enough away that it didn't bother me. However, a while after the shooting stopped I noticed a vehicle coming through a field and heading directly towards my location, with the headlights shining directly at me. I layed still and knew that they couldn't run into me because there were trees on all sides, but I thought I was busted. When the lights got about 30 yards from me they turned 90 degrees and continued on without stopping. Two more vehicles did the same thing before everything settled down. I could tell these were tractor type vehicles as they went past. When I got up the next morning I went and looked and realized there was a heavy equipment trail that lead to the maintenance facility that these vehicles had traveled to store the equipment for the night. I slept great for the rest of the night!! Not illegal but I did not have permission.
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