Travellers taken over Benz World

[SpoonJar]

Set up camp on the old race track.

Travellers in caravans invade Mercedes-Benz World | Daily Mail Online

 

[clk320x]

Set up camp on the old race track.

Travellers in caravans invade Mercedes-Benz World | Daily Mail Online

Oh for ****s sake

 

[TheFoX]

Why are they called 'Travellers' when they stay put for months or years at a time?

 

[merc85]

How do they insure there vehicles if no fix'd abode?

 

[Headhurts]

Travelers can be tinkers can’t they?

I remember one of their little fun tactics was to park in numbers on say a business car park or similar and refuse to move.

What normally happened was that the business or owner used to pay up a quantity of cash (always cash) to get them to move on.

In the early days of authorised specialist travellers parks there were electricity point with pay as you use meters.

At the end of their stays the meter would be broken into and left in an unusable state.

Cars were rarely taxed and when stopped we used to issue fixed penalty notices but they seldom were paid.
The conversation used to be laughable the names was often John Smith with an address like say plot 10 Round Tree Caravan Park.

Things have gotten better with enforcement but as they are travellers difficulty still arises.

It’s funny how the traveller bit is selective, build yourself a nice home on green belt and then claim special status and breach of human rights.

I personally have never met a truly hard working honest one but I am out of touch now so maybe the type of traveller I came across has changed.

Robin


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[Darrell]

They are all there to pick up their new Mercs.

 

[oldguy57]

I personally have never met a truly hard working honest one but I am out of touch now so maybe the type of traveller I came across has changed.

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Probably not but there is always an exception. I have a traveller mate - one of the most honest hard working individuals you could ever come across. Strange.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

We have a huge Traveller issue in and around Cambridge:

From the past few months: Travellers - Cambridge News

 

[Brian Mcculloch Glasgow]

I don't think they are travellers, they look more like settlers to me.

 

[Headhurts]

Probably not but there is always an exception. I have a traveller mate - one of the most honest hard working individuals you could ever come across. Strange.

I have no doubt that is the case, we used to have a gipsy liaison officer who knew one or two decent ones but I can only relate my experience.

Robin


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[Deleted member 6183]

A pal of mine used to work for BT.

One day he was doing something right next to a gyppo site when 2 kids started chatting with him, they both had air rifles. One kid asked him to look at his rifle, my mate took it from him while his mate hid behind a bush and shot a massive gyppo bloke up the ****, the big fellah leaps in the air, turns around to see my mate holding a rifle.

Never trust a gyppo with a gun.

 

[Headhurts]

A pal of mine used to work for BT.

One day he was doing something right next to a gyppo site when 2 kids started chatting with him, they both had air rifles. One kid asked him to look at his rifle, my mate took it from him while his mate hid behind a bush and shot a massive gyppo bloke up the ****, the big fellah leaps in the air, turns around to see my mate holding a rifle.

Never trust a gyppo with a gun.

Made me chuckle





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[Crickleymal]

They don't do themselves any favours do they? There are one or two good ones. We see a few round here who park up on the huge verge of the bypass and when they go there's no trace of them. Others leave the place looking like a tip.

 

[Yugguy]

Back where I used to work we had many problems with these wonderful people who always clean up after themselves.

These days they hassle the primary school there that has been built on one of the vacant sites.

 

[Dizz]

Generally if you have them (travellers/gypsies/pikey) in your area you will understand what they are and how they think, behave and treat people who fall outside of their set of rules.
There are exceptions to the rule but from personal experience they are few, and of course they don’t stand out.


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[KennyN]

They recently set up camp next to our work , luckily we have a 10ft high double fence that has cameras that can see the entire perimeter of the building so we had a look at the plates on their cars and only a couple were fully legal so why cant the law impound the illegal ones and make it difficult (expensive) to get them back like they do with everyone else.

There were dogs running everywhere and feral kids continually trying to get into the factory and snooping around the private carpark on the blag.

As per usual they left the already financially stretched council to foot the bill to clean up the area once they left.

I have never met a "decent" one so until i do in my book they all scum.

Kenny

 

[E55BOF]

^ +1 to much of that. I think that if all their illegal vehicles were impounded that would be a very effective tactic; it wouldn't stop them doing what they do, but it would stop them coming to a particular area, and moving the problem on seems to be all the law can accomplish these days.

I have no problem with travellers per se, but their way of life is to stay somewhere (on somebody else's property) for a while, while their menfolk go out to find casual work, for cash, and the women and children go out variously shoplifting, burgling, and generally causing a spike in the local petty crime rate.

They make a midden, which they leave for others to clear up, and they make virtually no contribution to society by paying taxes, though that does not stop them taking free medical attention, for example, which the rest of us fund for them. I'm not saying they are necessarily bad people, but their way of life is thoroughly anti-social; honour among thieves, but anyone or thing not part of their community is fair game.

That said, though, it may be that even some travellers are beginning to get the message in the generally-justified hostility they meet everywhere they go. There were two, admittedly only for a couple of days each time, significant gatherings (40-50 caravans) recently locally (weddings), and they actually bagged up some of their rubbish before moving on.

 

[Yugguy]

This is what pisses me off royally. Why aren't the cars removed, why can they shoplift with impunity?

 

[Headhurts]

I am retired now but thought that the authorities could seize their vehicles, maybe someone with better knowledge could update this.

As I said before unless they had committed an offence allowing detention they were generally bailed.

As their name would be along the lines John Smith, born about 1960 guv, with some caravan site as an address they rarely turned up for court dates.

If they were later detained it was unlikely you could properly identify them so they were bailed again and so the saga continued.

I believe from memory (not great) many are Irish travellers as some law was changed in Ireland that made it better for them to travel here.

Maybe in time as more and more seem to settle down their way of life will die out which would be a shame as it would not take a huge effort for us all to live in harmony or maybe I’m getting fluffier in my old age.

Robin


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[Deleted member 65149]

They seem to be a problem everywhere, yet they always appear so indignant when anyone complains about them. We had some interesting “discussion” on local social media recently when a small group of Travellers caused havoc at a new pub, threatening to kill staff there. Not surprisingly the management didn’t want to risk a repeat so hired guards to turn away any Travellers over Christmas and the New Year. The abuse of the pub’s management on Facebook over the next couple of weeks was incessant, and all from Travellers (most of whom it seemed lived in houses - go figure). No doubt some nice, law-abiding Travellers did get turned away at that time, but if they were that nice I couldn’t work out why they didn’t just take their business to another pub where they were welcome instead of kicking up such a fuss.

On a personal level, I’ve not been impressed with them. My wife has run hairdressing businesses for the last 15 years and in that time has only had two instances of customers cheating her out of services and not paying. Both instances involved Traveller families, one employing distraction tactics and the other false credit cards. None of her other hundreds of customers has been a problem.