Sympathies OP.

Keep on at the council, if their site borders your property keep a log of anti-social behavior, and keep your fingers crossed they move on to blight someone else’s life soon. 🙁

The hell is this TwaTrackworld?

And look who turned up in the next post. 😆

Just look at it as an opportunity to prove your manhood to everyone with a spot of bare knuckle fighting in a car park! Get the missus to put some money on the opposition. Take a dive in the fifth

Get yer drive tarmaced while they’re there! (Disclaimer: It will probably need doing again very soon after though)

I’ve dealt with literally hundreds of travellers over the last 20 years, and I can say that I’ve found them to be a bunch of dishonest, lying , criminals.
Only in my personal experience, all the others may be fine

The hell is this TwaTrackworld?

😆

They’re all coming out tonight.

I have no experience with enfht, is he regular?

*fill in the punchline*

“Racist Ernie Potato”
🙂

I’ve dealt with literally hundreds of travellers over the last 20 years, and I can say that I’ve found them to be a bunch of dishonest, lying , criminals.
Only in my personal experience, all the others may be fine

Aren’t you a copper? Strange that you’d end up dealing with the criminals then.

‘Bin reported ‘innit so let’s keep at it.

I’ve dealt with literally hundreds of travellers over the last 20 years, and I can say that I’ve found them to be a bunch of dishonest, lying , criminals.

Well given you are a copper this is hardly surprising

I work in a library and everyone i deal with likes books and can read

I work in a chippy and everyone i have ever met eats chips

Have you got the point yet?

It’s a leap to go from “I saw them breaking into a club in broad daylight” to “all travellers are thieving bastards.” Have a word with your conclusion jumping, that’s not what the OP said.

There are a number of specialist outfits who could help the landowner such as Constant & Co who in my experiece will move them on within 24 hrs.

Up the road from me the ‘lovely travelling folk ‘ whilst not out selling lucky heather and whittling clothes pegs caused alot of local grief.
Loads of oldies intimidated by door knockers offering driveway paving or tree surgery, one old lady outside my place at 6am scared of going home .
Public toilet block bust into ( was 9 -5 ) and turned into some sort of huge dirty protest , before being smashed up.
Large beachside car park made out of bounds to all locals and holidaying visitors.
Said large car park left looking like a dump with all the usual gas bottles , rubbish , washing machines, nappies old BBQ’s and car parts left for the council to clean up.

99.9% of travellers give the rest a bad name.

Seriously i would not feel comfortable going away for the weekend when you have pikeys on your doorstep.

^^ He said Pikey!!

HATE CRIME, HATE CRIME.

Oi! you, get out of here with your real world experience…

I live in the Warrington / St Helens area. Every time we get an illegal “travellers” site springing up they leave an area of devastation. Rubbish every where and a good deal of local funds spent clearing it up. No positives at all. Funny how dropping gel wrappers is, rightly, condemned by all but criticise travellers for trashing an area and you are a bigot who is intolerant of an alternative lifestyle.

Maybe some of the defenders above will enlighten us with tales of what these gentle folk bring to enhance the area where they stop.

I’m not denying there’s some fairly serious issues with some travellers. There’s also a lot of bigoted bellends around though, so it sort of balances out.

They have (for footflaps) moved into two car parks on the high peak trail of late. Was tootling by the other day day and had to chuckle as one of the caravans had a lovely bit of that fake grass (good 8’x4′) outside with his deck chair and little side table placed on it. Looked just like your average English country garden 🙂

We had a load of pikeys charming travelling folk rock up last year. They came in the local for a beer. Everyone was nice enough with them. When they left the landlord noticed all the window locks on the back windows had been levered off from the inside. No doubt for a return visit later on. The copper who came out told us that for the last couple of nights, thefts from sheds and garages had gone through the roof.

Make of that what you will. I’m sure it was a series of coincidences, personally.

I think they are a lovely, misunderstood group of charming folk. You should treat them as any other new neighbour and invite them into your house for a drink.

Got taught to point(walls)professionally and effectively by some people..

Turned out they lived in a caravan.

Went out in a posh part of town once, some trustfunder stole my phone.

The tutelage of the former allowed me to efficiently deal with the latter,

balance

thefts from sheds and garages had gone through the roof.

couldn’t they just lever the doors open ?

Well I’m certainly no bigoted bell end .. I am more than tolerant.

Travellers have arrived – I saw them break in today. Not had any crime in this area for years.. Perhaps coincidence?

Perhaps you could take the phone call from my wife at 2am this morning again ..saying she thinks someone is in the garden.

I’m nights again and would welcome your support.

why wud someone with a trustfund steal a phone?
maybe they were getting a very low rate of return on there investment vehicle and therefour decided stealing phones was moore profitabel

is it because of inbreeding some people have bigger toes than others?

“A copper told me…”

“The local farmer said…”

“We heard from the local landlord…”

All smell very much of bullshit.

Maybe some of the defenders above will enlighten us with tales of what these gentle folk bring to enhance the area where they stop

Or invite to stay on that bit of spare land at the bottom of their garden.

^^^ depends on who it is but happy to let them stay on my land
Last time the pulled up near me I went down intoriduced myself told them where our water point was and said they could help themselves but not bring dogs as one of ours would fight any dog it saw

they were grateful and no one was robbed

Some people from all walks of life are bellends and criminals

FWIW local crims also increase their crime rate when travellers turn up as they know they will get the blame and the attention.
Been a traveller had the plod visit [ UK and abroad] even though we never did any of this and lived with travellers – some are scum for sure but that is true of some house dwellers as well.

As for mess some folk make a mess and some dont

MTB ers gels or tubes or dog walkers tossing bags of poo into trees..of course with all the others that is just a minority but with travellers it them all innit

Spotted any slaves yet? Not criticisng as its part of there culture.

Huge gypsy camp near where I live, hence lots of warning leaflets aimed at the elderly warning them about cold calling con artists. Again seems unfair that the police are trying to do these people out of there culture inheritance by discouraging there way of life.

Slavery is not part of their culture any more than rape is part of our culture 🙄

singletrackmind didn’t bother to ask.

Why-when in “High Fasion Retail”- did I encounter frequent occurrences of wealthy people stealing what they could afford to buy in cash?

Who knows.

Maybe some of the defenders above will enlighten us with tales of what these gentle folk bring to enhance the area where they stop

We get quite a few young travellers enrol long on short courses at the college I work in. Overall they are more polite and better behaved than the rest of the students. Just my experience, not what people down the pub have told me, not sure it’s admissible.

Is “our” pertaining to ProfessionalFootballerTrackWorld?

And “their” pertaining to wealthy owners of housekeeping companies?

A good chunk of my not immediate family are Gypsies.

Rare old bunch of boys.

Go away, eat my dinner, come back an hour later and 3 pages of posts on travellers – so let me be the 1st to say a well known phrase, but you’ll need to rearrange the words “lock, before, the, in”

Mine too. Thieving nasty bastards the lot of them.

As for the slavery think about it, considering gypsy culture is based around obtaining large amounts of cash and the family recently prosecuted had confiscated over 3 million in assets and there are slaves who were known to be there still missing, do you really believe this single family that became multimillionaire are the only ones at this, even though there has been multiple cases of the same nature already prosecuted in Europe?

Go into your garden and shout ‘knackers!’ at them. It works on two levels, traveller insult and will have at least one person thinking ‘wtf bob at number10 has lost it.

Mine too. Thieving nasty bastards the lot of them.

No some of them are just like some of us are ..get some perspective and get a grip that is a dumb thing to say.

As for the slavery think about it, considering gypsy culture is based around obtaining large amounts of cash

Yes if i wanted to know about gypsy culture you would be the person I asked no really you would 🙄
No it is not based on this and out of interest what would you say the capitalist system we live in is based on then altruism and brotherly love 😕

do you really believe this single family that became multimillionaire are the only ones at this, even though there has been multiple cases of the same nature already prosecuted in Europe?

Shall i cite the multiple cases of white folk with women in their cellars and then generalise massively to this culture until I have made a ludicrous point or shall I leave these irrational leaps to you?

I guess you are happy with your bubble, unfortunately it doesn’t reflect the real world