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Expandable campers have really been pushing above and beyond simple pop-tops into more advanced forms, like transforming Cybertruck A-frames, stretchable off-road teardrops, and flip-open truck-top tents. Germany's ICC Offroad played a big role in the rotating Flip90 pickup camper, and it also has another expanding camper design in the pipeline. Its FlexCamp prototype is designed to start the journey as a basic trailer or pickup-top box, expanding up and out at camp to become a cozy micro-cabin for a family of four. ICC Offroad is developing the FlexCamp to meet the demand for a compact, four-season, off-road-ready camping solution. With...

FBI agents returned to the Florida home of Brian Laundrie’s parents Thursday to collect “personal items” that will help in a massive manhunt for the 23-year-old fugitive. “The FBI is at the Laundrie home today to collect some personal items belong to Brian that will assist the canines in their search for Brian,” family attorney Steven Bertolino told The Post. “There is nothing more to this.” The feds’ visit marks at least the fourth time the FBI has been at the North Port house since Laundrie, sought for questioning in the disappearance and death of his girlfriend, Long Island native...

A couple that lives across the street from Brian Laundrie’s Florida home said they saw the 23-year-old and his parents drive off hitching an “attached camper” on the same day that Long Island native Gabby Petito was reported missing. Charlene and William Guthrie moved to North Port in the early summer, and said that it had recently been a “nightmare” living amid a high-profile investigation and media circus surrounding Gabby’s death, according to Fox News. William told the outlet he was doing yard work on Sept. 11 when the Laundries hooked what appeared to be a new camper to the...

Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a long-distance bicycling trip and had stopped in the western Montana town of Ovando when she was killed early Tuesday, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials as they provided more details about the attack. Lokan was killed on the bear’s second visit to the site where she and two fellow bicyclists were camping near the post office, officials said. The approximately 400-pound (181 kilogram) grizzly first awakened the campers about 3 a.m., officials said. They took food out of their tents, secured it and went back to sleep, they said.

Painted in military green, weighing in at 18-tonnes and fitted with a giant set of wheels, this supersized camper van would not look out of place in a warzone. The massive vehicle, produced in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria, has a 720-horsepower engine and comes with a £585,000 price tag. But despite its tank-like appearance, the Action Mobil Global XRS 7200 - described as a 'motor home for global cruises' - is also built for comfort and comes with 23 sq ft of living space.

There is an SCTIMES report but I could not post it due to copyright restrictions.

In between the menopausal robot and the almost-talking dog, The Jetsons painted a somewhat bleak vision of our future. Their saucer-like housing was placed atop giant hydraulics. Why? To lift a suburban family out of the ever-rising smog! That said, there was, and still is, an appeal to those floating condos, a certain aspirational quality that one’s humble dwelling could be a self-contained high rise.

Browning makes some solid guns. I went to an auction this weekend and watched a couple of pristine Auto 5's go for some ridiculous amounts of money. Browning's guns tend to hold their value nicely. And why not? The company represents the lasting legacy of John Moses himself. But Browning doesn't make enough pistols. The ones they do make are excellent. I especially like their .22s. I think the half-pint 1911-22 is one of the sharpest fun-guns out right now. But the Buckmark is a serious gun. All of the Buckmarks are single action, blow-back, fixed barreled semi-automatics. They...

DETROIT (AP) -- The VW camper van Dr. Jack Kevorkian used during his assisted suicide campaign is no longer listed for sale on eBay after the online auctioneer cited a policy against "murderabilia." Current owner Jack Finn put the van on eBay last week. The top bid was $3,400 at 12:30 p.m. EDT Monday, with three days left. But the item wasn't listed an hour later.

A Sioux Falls man was shot at after attempting to break into a camper. 18-year-old Jeremy H. Miller was arrested and charged with two counts of burglary, criminal entry into a motor vehicle, and possession of alcohol by a minor. It all happened early Sunday morning at Baltic River Park, which is located about 20 miles north of Sioux Falls. The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office says that when Miller tried breaking into a camper, the person inside shot at him through a window in the door. Tommy Little, Sr. of Sioux Falls says he'd do the same. He, his daughter...

Camper Lost in New Mexico Rescued Two Weeks After Search for Her Was Called Off January 14, 2007 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A camper who became stranded nearly five weeks ago in a national forest because she could not cross a swollen river was rescued Sunday, more than two weeks after the search for her was called off. A New Mexico National Guard crew waded across the icy Gila River to rescue a dehydrated and weak Carolyn Dorn of South Carolina, who entered the Gila National Forest alone on Dec. 6 for a two-week camping trip. Two brothers found her Friday...

Please help. I am trying to find BJ Camper. Age late 20s. (27?) Born Stockton, CA and raised in Manteca, CA. Last known residence was Anchorage, Alaska. He was apparently working on fishing boats. He also once had a MySpace page under BJ Camper but he has removed the page. We do not know if the BJ stands for anything. If any Freepers know of his where-abouts, we need to contact him ASAP. His mother, Carolyn Jean Camper is dying and has only about 2-3 days to live. If you know him, have him contact his brother Babby Camper or...

A downtown St. Paul charter high school will go ahead with tonight's play about the homeless but decided Wednesday to exclude the man who inspired it after learning he was convicted eight years ago of third-degree sexual misconduct. The short set of monologues — based on young mothers, former white-collar managers and drug dealers whose lives converged at a St. Paul homeless shelter — was the brainchild of a Dorothy Day Center resident. Over the past few weeks, he teamed up with the drama club director of the Minnesota Business Academy to transfer those real-life personalities onto the stage. But...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY — A black bear (search) tried to drag a teenager out of his sleeping bag as he and other campers slept under the stars in a remote canyon -- the first bear attack in Utah (search) in 11 years, officials said.</p>

Denver Post Camper says she was 12 feet from curious giant By Theo Stein Denver Post Environment Writer Sunday, January 05, 2003 - When Julie Davis burst from her tent in a remote part of the San Juan National Forest late on the afternoon of Aug. 5, 2000, the 54-year-old musician expected a confrontation with a hungry bear. What she got was the surprise of her life. "It was gigantic - it must have been 8 feet tall," said Davis, an experienced backcountry camper from rural Boulder County and a former volunteer with the Great Bear Foundation. "My first thought...