Travellers.......
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I sold my daughter's old pram to a travelling family last week. After the lady won the auction, I checked her address and it was a caravan site in Wisbech. 
She turned up on time to collect it last Saturday with her husband and daughter in a Zafira. She was heavily pregnant and was a really nice lady to be honest.
What was interesting though was despite her being ready to pop, her husband didn't get out of the car at all to help her carry the pram. I took two of the three sections to the car and I gave her the lightest bit. Not once did he even offer to help or move his arse. Odd.
Our local council spent a lot of money building a site for travellers about 15 miles from us. The travellers live in large fixed caravans, so aren't really travelling anymore. I must admit that when we drive past it, it looks immaculate. It's probably one of the cleanest housing areas around here.
She turned up on time to collect it last Saturday with her husband and daughter in a Zafira. She was heavily pregnant and was a really nice lady to be honest.
What was interesting though was despite her being ready to pop, her husband didn't get out of the car at all to help her carry the pram. I took two of the three sections to the car and I gave her the lightest bit. Not once did he even offer to help or move his arse. Odd.
Our local council spent a lot of money building a site for travellers about 15 miles from us. The travellers live in large fixed caravans, so aren't really travelling anymore. I must admit that when we drive past it, it looks immaculate. It's probably one of the cleanest housing areas around here.
About fifteen years ago a bloke knocked on my door offering to hack some branches off a tree in my front garden, needed doing so we agreed a price. The fat idle 
then sat in a deckchair for a couple of hours while a young girl (probably about 12) and a lad (15'ish) shinned up the tree and trimmed it. He didn't do a stroke of actual work. I now automatically say no to all cold-calling gypos.
then sat in a deckchair for a couple of hours while a young girl (probably about 12) and a lad (15'ish) shinned up the tree and trimmed it. He didn't do a stroke of actual work. I now automatically say no to all cold-calling gypos.Couple of weeks ago I saw a fat Transit-driving youth of a certain type door-knocking in our close, whereupon my rather ineffectual neighbour was obviously being taken in by his spiel. I went out to save the neighbour from himself but it was too late, he'd already agreed to pay £150 to have his gutters cleared, and having made that agreement, fatty was definitely not going to do one until he got paid.
He clambered up a ladder and scooped a few handfuls of moss into a bucket, collected his cash and buggered off, not before he'd sat up the ladder having a good hard look around at all the potential toys he could collect when nobody's looking.
He clambered up a ladder and scooped a few handfuls of moss into a bucket, collected his cash and buggered off, not before he'd sat up the ladder having a good hard look around at all the potential toys he could collect when nobody's looking.
Clive-sz8cz said:
About fifteen years ago a bloke knocked on my door offering to hack some branches off a tree in my front garden, needed doing so we agreed a price. The fat idle then sat in a deckchair for a couple of hours while a young girl (probably about 12) and a lad (15'ish) shinned up the tree and trimmed it. He didn't do a stroke of actual work. I now automatically say no to all cold-calling gypos.
I used to get a knock a few times a year from a young lad with a broad Yorkshire accent, on the one occasion I relented and allowed the "gaffer" to come and give me a quote it was obvious he was just a front for a team of travellers, probably kidnapped like the ones in "The Modern British Slave Trade" documentary. then sat in a deckchair for a couple of hours while a young girl (probably about 12) and a lad (15'ish) shinned up the tree and trimmed it. He didn't do a stroke of actual work. I now automatically say no to all cold-calling gypos.http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-modern-brit...
Sister in law got duped by them into some gardening work digging up the old lawn. The sods dropped off a young lad and left him on his own to do the work. No tools, he had to borrow a spade, which he buggered off with at the end of the day.
Matter of principle for me, no jobs for cold callers, even if they might be reputable tradesmen trying to drum up for a genuine business. To be fair to the 3.14 lot, explain that and they don't waste their time arguing and seem to accept the point.
Matter of principle for me, no jobs for cold callers, even if they might be reputable tradesmen trying to drum up for a genuine business. To be fair to the 3.14 lot, explain that and they don't waste their time arguing and seem to accept the point.
Echo66 said:
Travellers & tinkers are not a race. The gypsy race is something entirely different & has it roots obviously in the Roma.
The other lot are a shower of ste & should be off to fked at the earliest opportunity.
This, absolutely. But if you voice that opinion in some circles, you get looked at as if you just dropped the N bomb on a black person. The other lot are a shower of s
te & should be off to fked at the earliest opportunity.They're not a race, any more than, say, cyclists are a race. They're just a mob of lawless troublemakers who have stolen that tag (petty theft being their predominantly key skill in any case) and trot it out to avoid being dealt with for their crimes. Unfortunately, for utterly inexplicable reasons, it works for them.
I have Allways stopped them before they get a chance to walk up my drive . It used to be usually with my Alsatian dog beside me.
I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
magooagain said:
I have Allways stopped them before they get a chance to walk up my drive . It used to be usually with my Alsatian dog beside me.
I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
They'll know, as we all do, that your dog will do absolutely nothing.I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
So it's not the dog.
iphonedyou said:
They'll know, as we all do, that your dog will do absolutely nothing.
So it's not the dog.
Mate (car dealer) has a trained Alsatian. If it bit your arm what look like huge fangs would come out the other side, having shattered your ulna on the way. Nasty piece of work that no one messes with.So it's not the dog.
KTF said:
What do they do when you tell them you won't be fixing all the chips for free aside from summoning more of them out of their caravans?
I normally tell the guy that I'm there to do the job for if they don't pack it in I'm off, he will then jabber something and they'll slink off. If that doesn't work I tell them that I'm a fitter not a repairer and I don't have a repair kit so I can't, of course it's a load of rubbish but they don't know that. Eventually it gets through.magooagain said:
I have Allways stopped them before they get a chance to walk up my drive . It used to be usually with my Alsatian dog beside me.
I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
I do that too, we have a husky and she is as soft as muck, whenever we see one of these lot coming up the street we always say 'stay back, don't go near the dog' seems to work. The travelling lot seem to really dislike big dags and stay away from our house.I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
iphonedyou said:
magooagain said:
I have Allways stopped them before they get a chance to walk up my drive . It used to be usually with my Alsatian dog beside me.
I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
They'll know, as we all do, that your dog will do absolutely nothing.I would tell them if anything is at the end of the drive it's yours,but don't ever come up the drive without me being around as the dog is very protective of the mrs and kids.
Seemed to work.
So it's not the dog.
What's worse is that your caravan-dwellers will see him as a valuable commodity, and if a good smack in your gob means he's going home with them, they won't think twice.
Edited by CAPP0 on Friday 10th March 01:39
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