Mysterious Tent Shanking

[Big Sky Guy]

My wife went out today on some USFS land to walk our dogs and found these tents collapsed. Upon investigation these were shanked numerous times.

Prly go back with her and pick them up to toss in garbage.

This is a spot just off the road that you drive to and vehicle camp so not like they had to pack anything out.

People are weird.

@Marshian any thoughts?

 

[Forkyfinder]

My wife went out today on some USFS land to walk our dogs and found these tents collapsed. Upon investigation these were shanked numerous times.

Prly go back with her and pick them up to toss in garbage.

This is a spot just off the road that you drive to and vehicle camp so not like they had to pack anything out.

People are weird.

@Marshian any thoughts?

Its karma for all those jokes

 

[Nick_CO]

No idea where this is but I can just about guarantee they are Ozark Trail tents.

 

[Wild Bill]

No idea where this is but I can just about guarantee they are Ozark Trail tents.

Or Coleman

 

[Big Sky Guy]

No idea where this is but I can just about guarantee they are Ozark Trail tents.

That is what wife said they are. How did you know this? Were you saying normal people don’t shank Hilleberg and Big Agnes due to cost?

 

[Marshian]

I’m extremely normal and well-adjusted. My mom told me so. Can’t help with the current mystery tho.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Been reading about tent "shanking" here on HT for awhile. In prison "shanking" is the term for stabbing, usually with an improvised homemade knife, or "shiv".
Please clarify the tent "shanking" term.
Thanks from an old student of colloquial language.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Been reading about tent "shanking" here on HT for awhile. In prison "shanking" is the term for stabbing, usually with an improved homemade knife, or "shiv".
Please clarify the tent "shanking" term.
Thanks from an old student of colloquial language.

Your colloquial understanding is accurate and in context. Supply basic ingredients of frustrated mountain goat hunter, tent, and hunting knife and you can envision the details….

Montana Mountain Goat- at wits end

Long story short, i drew a Montana mountain goat tag and set off for what I was hoping to be up to a nine day long goat hunt only to find the one and only road into the district closed due to washed out bridge less than a mile into said district. I did the longest hike of my life yesterday...

www.hunttalk.com

Cost of a goat tag $125
Cost of a tent $400

Value of having said actions immortalized on the internet and having a new phrase coined - priceless.

 

[Nick_CO]

That is what wife said they are. How did you know this? Were you saying normal people don’t shank Hilleberg and Big Agnes due to cost?

I've had a lot of experience dealing with transient campers and this sounds like a transient campsite. Ozark Trail tents are cheap at Wal-Mart. The owners of the tents are most likely the shankers as well. Though it is possible a rival transient group did the shanking. The reason people don't shank their Hillebergs and BA tents is because they have jobs, money, homes to go back to after camping, and aren't smoking meth.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

I've had a lot of experience dealing with transient campers and this sounds like a transient campsite. Ozark Trail tents are cheap at Wal-Mart. The owners of the tents are most likely the shankers as well. Though it is possible a rival transient group did the shanking. The reason people don't shank their Hillebergs and BA tents is because they have jobs, money, homes to go back to after camping, and aren't smoking meth.

So the thought process is basically a “disposable” tent (but without the doing the disposal part)? I guess I just don’t get why you wouldn’t sell it on marketplace and take the $20 or whatever and get another bag of drugs or whatever?

 

[Nick_CO]

So the thought process is basically a “disposable” tent (but without the doing the disposal part)? I guess I just don’t get why you wouldn’t sell it on marketplace and take the $20 or whatever and get another bag of drugs or whatever?

Well we're talking people that probably live out of their car, and don't have phones. Also, why buy a used tent from a homeless guy for $20 when you can get a brand new one that doesn't smell for $29 at wally world?

 

[Deleted member 16864]

Been reading about tent "shanking" here on HT for awhile. In prison "shanking" is the term for stabbing, usually with an improved homemade knife, or "shiv".
Please clarify the tent "shanking" term.
Thanks from an old student of colloquial language.

“Shanking”, is also a slang term for having intercourse with, according to the latest edition of Urban Dictionary. So you can shank a tent, or shank someone in a tent.

 

[MTTW]

I have found 4 tents abandoned in the woods in the last ten years. 3 of them were several miles from the trailhead and 2 were in high mountain basins which I believe were probably goat hunters. They were all in poor enough condition that you couldn't tell if they had been shanked.

I think it boils down to...some people are pigs.

 

[Deleted member 16864]

I have found 4 tents abandoned in the woods in the last ten years. 3 of them were several miles from the trailhead and 2 were in high mountain basins which I believe were probably goat hunters. They were all in poor enough condition that you couldn't tell if they had been shanked.

I think it boils down to...some people are pigs.

If English wasn’t their first language they may have made contact with the spirit realm.

Shaking tent ceremony - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[MTLabrador]

I thought this tent was shanked at first, but the paw prints told a different story.

 

[LCH]

I have found quite a few. Always expect to find a body inside.

 

[kodiakisland]

I have found quite a few. Always expect to find a body inside.

I find a tent in the woods I’m not looking in it unless it’s on my property.

 

[Straight Arrow]

“Shanking”, is also a slang term for having intercourse with, according to the latest edition of Urban Dictionary. So you can shank a tent, or shank someone in a tent.

Good for YOU to know.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Went back with my wife today to check it out for myself and remove what was now clearly litter. The shanking pattern on the one seemed peculiar to me in its squareness. Likely methodical and thought out. One had a cow patty on it and both were there long enough to kill the grass.

 

[EastTNHunter]

I do not understand this phenomenon