Travellers - where do they go ?

[whiffey]

Once again the local common has been invaded by 'travelling people'. On this occasion they broke down the sturdy road barrier to a cul-de-sac. They are still there after a week, apparently the council can't act quickly because they are on a Highway rather than on the common. Once again I suppose when they have eventually gone we will find the usual heart-breaking piles of building rubbish and human excrement everywhere.

My question is, where do they live/go in between evictions ?

[excelsior]

i think quite a few of them travel with fairgrounds to make money by working the rides and stalls

[4getmenot]

they dont they just move onto the next part of land they can find

[whiffey]

What if they are moved on at 5pm on Tuesday and can't find a 'suitable' (ye gods) piece of land until Friday ?

ASDA car park ?

[johnny.5]

a lot of travellers have got a bad name because of the damage a small minority of travellers have done .
at the end of the day they need somewhere to live and i am much happier in the knowledge they have chosen your common rather than mine

[B00]

I don't suppose many of us would resent them half as much if they didn't show utter disdain for the area they're 'infesting'.

[redcrx]

they will always find a suitable piece of land. They will send advance parties to break locks on property. Then when they move on to it afterwards 'it was already open'

Of course Im talking about pikeys here and not the decent ones who do appear to be in the monority.

[whiffey]

Thanks j5 :(:(:(

Where do the implied large majority of good travellers live then ? On EVERY occasion that travellers have invaded the common they have left filth and rubbish behind them. Do we just get the bad ones ? The first time I made the big mistake of cycling on a public footpath running through the infestation. I was set upon by dogs, and had to pedal like a maniac to escape.

[4getmenot]

yes they would have already decided where there next spot is

[rabet]

Well, Johnny, I don't khow where your "majority" of well-behaved travellers live ~I have never seen a travellers' site that wasn't in the state that Whiffey describes. Fortunately I have never had any syaying near me.

[redcrx]

the good ones are in the minority.

we had a family move onto our industrial estate one year they asked if they could collect wood from our land (others stole pallets etc), they asled if they may have a bucket of water (other fixed hosepipe to our outside tap).

They also warned us of a large convoy of travellers heading our way and helped us barricade the site as 30 carvans turned up.

They stayed for about 6 months, were great caretakers of the site.

They were one of the few good ones that travel to this area.

[4getmenot]

we have a proper travellers site, and all have to go to caretaker to be allowed onto it and live there. But saying that its still in a state and the shower blocks that were built for them are being used as storage. well behaved travellers are proper gypsies not like the pikies that stayed near out work and sh!t behind the skip

[bill preston]

just a thought??........... if you lived in a caravan and had to travel from pillar to post, surely doing it on the continent would be a better idea?

[redcrx]

our purpose built site is empty but no travellers can get on because a few families have paid the rent on the area for a year and then left. It cant be rented a second time.

How silly is that? why would a traveller want to rent a hard standing for a year?

[stoofur]

A couple of years ago we had a couple of travelers in our company car park. It was quite entertaining everymorning the "woman" of the camp would squat down and do ones and twos in the middle of the car park. Or she would shout abuse at us all. Obviously we would not park our cars in the car park.

They were there for about a week. We tried to get the council to evict them but they said as it is private land then they would not do anything so we had to get a privade baliff firm to evict them. The next day they had set-up camp in the council car park!! Hee hee. They left a heck of a mess (Especially the woman).

[daffy654]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/ 4921734.stm

This is what we had to put up with last year a few hundred yards from my house.

[B00]

Bless 'em eh daffy? Awesome pillars of society!

[daffy654]

A couple of years before that incident there was some sort of Gypsy religious gathering nearby too,I was working in an off licence that summer and the custom increased by about 75%,so did the shoplifting. We had to double staff the shop at all times,they used to bring hoardes of kids in who would try to distract you while the parents knicked whatever wasn't nailed down.They even broke into one of the charity shops overnight and stole clothes and household goods. These were Eastern European Gypsies and much worse than own home grown ones.

[B00]

That's what I mean daffy- I'm sure we wouldn't mind them half as much if they respected the area they're in and it's people.

As it is they are quite frankly scum who should be eradicated.