Half a dozen lads fresh from leaving school decide to go on a camping/fishing weekend.
We'll call the instigater of the weekend 'Jim'. Jim's sister dropped us off at the campsite, which was a freshly harvested hay field owned by Jim's dad. The field sloped gently down to a stream at the bottom and the hay bales were stacked by the gate ready for collection. Once we'd got the tents set up we realised that the fishing rods were still in the back of the car so it'd just be a camping weekend. Jim, who’d volunteered to bring food had only brought Pot Noodles and crisps. He’d bought a gas stove but the bottle was empty. We had a couple of disposable barbeques but no one liked the idea of using stream water they weren't used.
As we got bored quite quickly we soon wanted to find out how heavy hay bales were and decided that we'd see if we could move one. We could. What we couldn't do was stop the thing. It gathered speed as it went down the field, straight over Jims tent, through the fence and into the stream.
That night, whilst I was doing my own crop spraying, the geniuses huddled in my tent were feeling the cold chill of a summer evening as they hadn’t brought sleeping bags as ‘it was summer and we won’t need them’, thought they'd light the disposable barbeque and put it in the tent for warmth. On returning to the tent I requested they remove it as it wasn't a good idea and on lifting it up found that it had melted a hole in the groundsheet. I was peeved and let them know that.
The next morning we packed up and Jim called his dad from a phone box to come and collect us. When he arrived we chucked our stuff over the gate and started packing the car up. Jim’s dad was looking a bit perplexed and said “What were you doing in there? My field is the other side of the road.”

tl:dr - Don’t go camping with anyone who hasn’t been in the cubs as they tend to be unprepared.
(TitanLX, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 15:54, 2 replies)

Crikey!
The berks who lit the disposable BBQ inside the tent probabaly have you to thank for them now not being dead!

Those things really do quite nasty things to the air in enclosed spaces.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 16:02, closed)

Back then I didn't think about fumes, I thought it might burn the tent down.

(TitanLX, Fri 30 Mar 2012, 16:09, closed)