We have travellers who set up camp near us once a year, supposedly for 3 days but they're usually there a week. When they're around no one can hang out their washing cos it gets nicked and in recent years they've nicked all the veg from my neighbours garden, nicked the railings & roof lead from the local church, smashed windows, damaged cars, used taxi's then done a runner rather than pay, beaten up any taxi driver who has chased them, stoned kids in the local park and last year they broke into the local dairy. If they were hungry and did it to steal food I could just about understand that, but all they did was destroy thousands of tubs of yoghurt. Why?????
The police have a van stationed permanently near their field when they're here but have never made one arrest. No doubt if someone law abiding threw a piece of cottonwool at one of their caravans they's be arrested for some racial offence. These people are not gypsies, they are itinerant dregs. They should be lined up against a wall with a firing squad taking aim and should have 10 seconds to explain what useful purpose they serve in life.
Rant over...time I went to lie down in a darkened rom.