by welshwizard on Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:35 pm
Gypos truly are a menace to society. They move in and take over an area, driving the locals away. Take a visit to Crays Hill in Basildon. There are thousands of them there. Most of the locals have been forced out, and only those who can't afford to move are still there.
The company I used to work for in Essex had a lot of trouble with them, breaking into sites stealing smaller bits of plant, and wrecking the larger things that they couldn't take. They would also turn up at the sites expecting to tip their rubbish for free, and when refused threatening violence. I had one experience where the weighbridge operator called for a senior manager to come and deal with them, which happened to be me. When I said no, the threats grew down a personal line, like 'we'll find out where you live' and 'do you know where you're kids are'. Now I'm not the sort of person who's generally intimidated by some bog trotting diddycoy, so my answer never changed, so their next step was to leave, only to return 30 seconds later with a shotgun. Fortunately the weighbridge operator had telephoned the plod and called the site foreman on the radio, who turned up with a few of the Neanderthals from the site, and persuaded the gypos to leave. It has to be said, plod was pretty disinterested when they turned up some time later. Too much like hard work.
A few years ago, the Republic of Ireland passed a law which made most of the sites there illegal, and so a great majority of them followed all the other scum over to our little island to make our lives a misery.