Travellers.......

[Hoolio]

Freds said:

I can't decide whether she's wearing a 'prayer cap' or a poundland fruit bowl on her head. I also suspect those teeth are from a joke shop .

[ThunderGuts]

A friend on fb said:

Never been on a gypsie camp site before until tonight. It was all I could ever imagine and more.

Best part was when a van pulls up to where we were working and the driver gets a pony out the back for his kids.

Never seen owt like it.

[coppice]

Well , for all the hate and bile , I've certainly found gypsies a lot more complex than many . In a previous life I did some legal stuff with gypsy communities and it was eye opening , and ofte in an unexpected way . Here's what I found -

-the men were generally reluctant to engage at all, as if talking to a lawyer in a suit would emasculate them; very macho culture

- many families were actually well integrated in communities but still proud of their heritage

- the internecine fights between different subsets of gypsy were staggering (violent, vicious, long memories )

- the women were , in the main terrific. Very strong , devoted to kids and often despairing of menfolk

- gypsy community leaders are very smart and very tough (Ecclestone with a caravan? )

- some sites operate peacefully and well. Others are a bloody nightmare with stuff being nicked constantly

I enjoyed the experience , apart from the occasion when I was told the bad guys from Doncaster were coming to shoot up the meeting I was attending , and some of the people I met were decent, smart and friendly . Others were pretty awful . But let's not call everybody vermin eh ? That way madness lies...

[Cyder]

It's the old catchphrase saying 'say what you see' isn't it?

I see scum, trouble, intimidation, thievery and crap left everywhere when they're about.

(By they I mean the pseudo Irish lot not genuine gypsy types)

[Ynox]

Had them come to my office this week.

Turned up on Sunday - about 10 caravans. They left a fair bit of st but buggered off by Monday evening fortunately!

[bristolracer]

They have all caught religion apparently and are striving to become good


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38016090

[droopsnoot]

coppice said:

- gypsy community leaders are very smart and very tough (Ecclestone with a caravan? )

Chris, or Bernie?

[HTP99]

Had a load appear just off the A3 near Cobham in the grounds of a recently sold hotel, they are no longer there; moved on within a few days, but by god the mess they left.

They had a load of drop side transits and the mess is household stuff such as old washing machines, cabinets etc, so I assume they ran a service of charging people to clear their crap and then they just dumped it in the woods and area where they were camped out, they get moved on and the new owners of the hotel have to pay to have the rubbish cleared.

[Bluedot]

This lot appeared the other day:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/bentley-...

I do like the irony of them being parked up in the tax office car park....

[austinsmirk]

they were on fine form on "can't pay we'll take it away last night", when being evicted from a VOSA site they had broken into. The destruction and mess left behind was epic.

[irocfan]

Bluedot said:

This lot appeared the other day:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/bentley-...

I do like the irony of them being parked up in the tax office car park....

Don't understand this bit:

"The travellers – with top-of-the-range motors – have been told they will be evicted from the tax office car park at Lynx House on Northern Road, Cosham if they don’t move on."

surely if they're there illegally chuck 'em off why worry about eviction notices etc?

[Mr Snrub]

Pay for a parking ticket and go a few minutes over - £100 fine

Set up home illegally, destroy the place, dump rubbish, throw rocks and bottles at the bailiffs - get asked very politely if they wouldn't mind moving on


Gotta love this country sometimes

[kowalski655]

austinsmirk said:

they were on fine form on "can't pay we'll take it away last night", when being evicted from a VOSA site they had broken into. The destruction and mess left behind was epic.

And their scummy offspring chucking stones at the bailiffs-Im sure they will grow up to be just like their scummy parents

[stitched]

Apologies for detracting from the frothing mouth syndrome.
Go to this years appleby fair.
come back and comment.

[Cliftonite]

stitched said:

Apologies for detracting from the frothing mouth syndrome.
Go to this years appleby fair.
come back and comment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/appleby-horse-fair-travellers-leave-5852043

[alfie2244]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/mu...

[Robertj21a]

stitched said:

Apologies for detracting from the frothing mouth syndrome.
Go to this years appleby fair.
come back and comment.

Why ? - have they stopped the cruelty to animals or is it that the arrogant, swearing, drunks have been locked up?

[55palfers]

Mr Snrub said:

Pay for a parking ticket and go a few minutes over - £100 fine

Set up home illegally, destroy the place, dump rubbish, throw rocks and bottles at the bailiffs - get asked very politely if they wouldn't mind moving on


Gotta love this country sometimes

Very, very, very much this.

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't surfaced here yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-136750...

Would you or I get away with behaviour like this?

[irocfan]

alfie2244 said:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/mu...

also totally unacceptable - however 135,000 people (and whose entrance fees one might reasonably imagine go towards cleanup costs) vs a fair few less travellers....

55palfers said:

Mr Snrub said:

Pay for a parking ticket and go a few minutes over - £100 fine

Set up home illegally, destroy the place, dump rubbish, throw rocks and bottles at the bailiffs - get asked very politely if they wouldn't mind moving on


Gotta love this country sometimes

Very, very, very much this.

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't surfaced here yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-136750...

Would you or I get away with behaviour like this?

it's at times like this where the use of flames throwers could be forgiven

[anonymous-user]

Mr Snrub said:

Pay for a parking ticket and go a few minutes over - £100 fine

Set up home illegally, destroy the place, dump rubbish, throw rocks and bottles at the bailiffs - get asked very politely if they wouldn't mind moving on


Gotta love this country sometimes

Napalm, it's due a renaissance