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The plod mess things up ..... again
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...t-up-camp.html
Gipsies take advantage of police to set up camp
Police officers had barriers to a field removed to enable a group of travellers turn their vehicles round, only for them to set up camp.
Initially four caravans were parked on the Cam Alders playing fields in Fareham, Hants, but now there are as many as 15 Photo: Solent News
7:35AM BST 19 Jun 2012
Officers ordered a height restriction barrier to be dismantled to allow the group to manoeuvre after they blocked a street. But the group instead drove in and pitched up.
Initially four caravans were parked on the Cam Alders playing fields in Fareham, Hants, but now there are as many as 15.
Fareham borough council will have to begin court action to evict the group.
Sean Woodward, the council’s leader, said the restriction barrier had been in place to stop travellers using the fields and described the police’s actions as “ridiculous”.
He said: “A group crowded into the road in their caravans and blocked the road.
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“I would have left them to it but the police came along and demanded the council open the height restriction barrier to allow the caravans to go in and turn round. And that, of course, let them on. They didn’t turn around, they moved in. It was the most ridiculous thing.”
The travellers had been criss-crossing their way across Gosport and Fareham for several weeks. On Saturday, the council sent in bailiffs to remove the group after they pitched up in Stubbington.
The caravans then blocked up a street close to the playing fields in Fareham.
It was here that police ordered barriers to be removed so the vehicles could turn around.
Mr Woodward said if police wanted to clear the highway they should have made the travellers uncouple their caravans from their vehicles and turn them round.
Hampshire police said it had requested, not ordered, the barrier to be removed. A spokesman added: “It was not an order to open the barrier, the council were prepared to open it and it was the most practical solution at the time.”
Give 'em an inch, they take a mile.
And they wonder why people think of them as scum.
(this applies to both parties involved, moreso the pikeys of course.)
I know a (Slightly unhinged) farmer who had problems with travellers breaking through a gate and camping on his land. According to him they never came back after he rigged the gate with a gallon of petrol and some black powder.
I've no idea if the story is true but if it was then it must have looked like the Trinity test when it went up.
I take it the the UK hates gypsys.
Last edited by ragnarok; 06-19-2012 at 07:29 PM. Reason: typo
People with no stake in a community, have no respect. It doesn't pay to invest in an area when you plan to up stakes and push on when you have milked the area for all its worth does it?Originally Posted by ragnarok
Not always no. There are gypsys who live in my area for example who are actually quite settled. Many of them hold down regular work, their kids go to local schools and they have become a part of the wider community as a whole.
The ones who cause problems are those who travel around looking for rich pickings at the expense of everybody else. They find a piece of land and squate on it, scour the area looking for anything they can get for very little or even steal and then, when they are eventually moved on usually at great expense by the land owner or the local authority if it's public land, they leave an enormous mess which has to be cleared up, again often at great expense.
We also now seem to have a lot of property owning gypsys from Ireland who spend a large amount of time in England and Wales etc living in caravans often on unlawfull sites claiming various public monetary benefits who on investigation actually own very nice homes back in Ireland.
I'll be clear, that's not a dig at the Irish. Many Irish people live in Britain and are a part and parcel of us all. My own family have very strong Irish connections. It's just that like everybody else, there are some who take deliberate and often illeagal advantage of the system.
If they have homes in Ireland, why the bloodsoaked hell would they squat around a nice place like their homeless? Is it to get taxpayer money through fraud through acting like a bunch of homeless folk?
No its an ancestral hobby!
No its an ancestral hobby!hhahahahhaha
Over here you have gypsies and pikies. Gypsies have an ancestral history of traveling around and a lot of them aren't a problem.
On the other hand you have pikies, folks who travel around like gypsies (but aren't) and pretty much act like locust. With the prices of scrap metal going up over here the last few years, they get the credit of stealing power or phone cables for the copper, or manhole covers and sewer grates to trade in for the scrap value. Kind of a PITA if you come around a bend and there is a large hole in the road with sharp edges.
It is easy to "create" a business here, so some will get a cheap mobile and hey presto they become "Bob the Builder" or "Joe the plumber" or a landscaping expert. They usually need a large down payment to get materials, will make a mess to look like they are starting something, then they are off to the next new area after they have managed to "start" a few jobs.....
"You got a license plate number? Sorry it's not in the database..."
I probably don't have it 100% correct, but then again I'm just an ex-pat. All my knowledge is second hand....
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