WoW I mean REALLY WoW!! -- I have been on calls of "removing guest" from campsites / motels / and hotels. They fall under the legal term of "Inn's" and can remove someone pretty much on a whim with no refund. Then if it was unjust you have to sue them in civil court of course adding on ALL SORTS of legal cost, your time, pain and suffering etc.
However when I go to those calls it is pretty much, Let me see your Occupational License if they are a hotel / motel / campground then it is "those the people over there?" Then I tell them they have to leave. I do not want to hear the story -- just start pack and I advise them to sue.
Arrested for defrauding an Inn Keeper?? That'll fly like a penguin.
They encroached heavily into areas of the law in which it could be argued they--- Falsley Imprisoned / held against someones' will. Stepping to someone in a manner which a reasonable person would find as a threat to harm is indeed an Assault.
As to the 20 mintues to pack up--- Obviously if you were packing up one toothpick out of a box of 5,000 every two minutes that would not be reasonable. Packing up at a reasonable pace there is not a thing even a SWORN DEPUTY can do about that.
It sounds like they are having problem campers at their site and have taken these tactics to deal with the rowdy , drunken ATV crowds I am sure they are catering to.
What they did not realize are that these SCUBABoard people are not those folks. We have gear which cost a minmum of $1,500 to start out. Spend tens of thousands taking trips to all corners of the globe diving and generally these are not the drunkard Ner'Do'wells they are accustom to dealing with. Reckless, Rude, and stupid scuba divers are generally not around long so there are very few of them. They die around the last week of July every year.
I am flabberghasted, appaulled, shocked, disqusted and down right disappointed in this.
I have been to at least 50 campsites and yes you can simply pull up and say, " I am visiting site 22 the Martins for a few hours" and they give you a little vistor pass and say follow the road to the left---
I will also add-- calling them Jailers, Screws, Cage kickers, Correctional Officers, Hacks, or any other sort of Jailer slur is off the mark.
I am telling you right now as a Florida Certified Correctional Officer and Law Enforcement Officer with experience behind the bars. If you walk into a Felony 1 High security dorm and began shouting crap and giving orders for no reason what so ever they will kill you. I am not being metaphorhic, exaggerating, or being sarcasitic. You will get a pen stuck into the artery of your neck and you will bleed out before they get you to the infirmary.
You walk into a dorm and begin with a loud clear, "GENTLEMEN" - then you tell them what you want them to do. They will generally do it. If they do not THEN you turn it up a little to "PERHAPS YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND ME... you will do this, this and this, and do it NOW." Then if you catch an attitude and they are still not doign it then and ONLY then you become the jerk and people go to lock down. This entire procedure is known behind the bars as "Ask, Tell, Make."
The response you recieved at the campgroup and the show of force you had with several "Red Hatted Meanies" surrounding you in go carts is WAY above and beyond the sort of thing you'd see in any jail or prison in this state. In a Jail or Prison they will always, always, always start with the Gentlemen I want you to do this.. with respect and in a calm polite but stern voice.