More Pikey Tricks

[brightspark]

Mate was a Police Sergeant until retirement. His "patch" was a rural area of the Staffordshire Moorlands. He told me there was once a complaint by travellers about the farmer who's land they had decided to take over. Seems the farmer got other farmers together and decided it was time to spray pig manure on the land so drove up and down the travellers camp spraying the stuff everywhere. Travellers were told by Police that he was perfectly entitled to do that and wasn't breaking the law. Needless to say no more episodes of travellers in that area again.

Paul H

a farmer near us used to pile all his manure along the roadside where a few caravans congregated

 

[rosinante]

Travellers

Reminds of that old joke:--- what key can open any lock in the world??
Answer " A Pikey!!, there are a few other similar answers as well.
Chris

 

[CRB]

When I was a younger man, my family live on the north end of Gosforth High Street, the old A1. The Town Moor, had, and I think still does have, the largest gathering of fairground folk in Europe. I remember being called on by some old women once selling peg dollies and white heather.

There was an episode at my last employers' industrial estate, when a caravan of caravans parked up in front of a couple of the larger units. They had wide grass verges up to the fronts of the buildings, so they effectively blocked out the light through the windows. It took at least a week to get them out, and naturally, we were all more concious of our property than usual.

On a lighter note, I saw an Audi yesterday, P1KEE. No camera, so I will keep an eye out.

 

[rtbcomp]

A friend of mine used to make the lucky charms that the Gypsies sell. One day he had about four of them stood at his counter. After he'd served them and they'd left he noticed all the packages he'd put out for the postman to collect had disappeared!

I don't think the showmen are a problem, maybe the odd drunken brawl but no systematic stealing.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I deal with many showmen and without doubt, I would trust any of them. Not sure why they get tarred with the Pikey brush.

 

[MrFluffy]

Best method I saw when the pikeys take over your land was to get a few good blokes to keep it calm and take the jcb and dig a trench across the entrance when theyre home for the night. No exit the field, no robbing sorties, no money no food. Then you backfill the trench after a few days and tell them its coming back out in 8 hrs time. They soon move on.
Huge rocks outside the capacity of a poxy transit hiab work great too.

 

[Seano]

When I was a younger man, my family live on the north end of Gosforth High Street, the old A1. The Town Moor, had, and I think still does have, the largest gathering of fairground folk in Europe. I remember being called on by some old women once selling peg dollies and white heather.

There was an episode at my last employers' industrial estate, when a caravan of caravans parked up in front of a couple of the larger units. They had wide grass verges up to the fronts of the buildings, so they effectively blocked out the light through the windows. It took at least a week to get them out, and naturally, we were all more concious of our property than usual.

On a lighter note, I saw an Audi yesterday, P1KEE. No camera, so I will keep an eye out.

Ah the Town Moor....when I was an apprentice,my boss, an old Glaswegian used to get a call from the fair owners to come up and service / repair all their gensets, most of them were running Gardener 6LW 6 pot diesels and old Jock being gardener trained use to take me up there to help him out.....never earnt so much money in my life at 17....e, good days

 

[rtbcomp]

I used to love watching the generators at a fair! My Dad wanted to go on the dodgems but I just stared in awe at the gennies!

 

[Robotstar5]

They closed a pub with a large carpark in Smethwick, so the council concreted bollards in to keep the travellers off. I drove past a couple of weeks later and there was a transit with hydrovane attached and a couple of boyo's on a road drill removing the bollards. Came past later and "base camp" had been established

 

[brightspark]

They closed a pub with a large carpark in Smethwick, so the council concreted bollards in to keep the travellers off. I drove past a couple of weeks later and there was a transit with hydrovane attached and a couple of boyo's on a road drill removing the bollards. Came past later and "base camp" had been established

round our way they use large concrete drain sections across the road and fill em with concrete

 

[Robotstar5]

round our way they use large concrete drain sections across the road and fill em with concrete

I'd like to see them being used after they are all in the field/carpark so they can't get out, after all they are there illegally

 

[brightspark]

I'd like to see them being used after they are all in the field/carpark so they can't get out, after all they are there illegally

they dug a moat and made a mound round the industrial estate to stop em guess what . ? they had a bobcat and levelled the lot within 2 days sh .,.,te and tree clippings were mounting up

 

[dannyp]

pikeys are no fun to fall out with

mind you i've met a few vat registed ones flogging stuff for a company called cannon tools,

had enough stuff go missing from one site in the past so now precautions are taken, stupid ****er that drains my "diesel" tank won't get very far but you would be suprised at who you do catch out with dodgey diesel

 

[CompoSimmonite]

Travellers took over a local area near to me - a park type area next to a lake. When they eventually got moved on the clear up crews found they had been using the wooded area as a toilet and human faeces everywhere. That meant a massive clear up required - far more involved than just removing things like old tree clipping, tarmac and such. Undergrowth of the wooded area had to be totally cleared which obviously had a knock on effect for wildlife so they left a legacy that the area will take several years to recover.

Paul h

 

[rtbcomp]

Similar happened to a beauty spot in Shropshire. They'd been burning old radios and there was melted plastic everywhere, goodness knows what chemicals had been left in the soil.

 

[ronan]

Brace your selves for when the romanian pikeys invade later on in the year , good old eu ehh ?

 

[pedrobedro]

They invaded a local pitch and putt with a brook running alongside it a couple of years ago and were there about 3 weeks. They filled the brook with Cypress cuttings and used a path that ran alongside it as a toilet so it was unpassable. It cost us the local residents via the council £30,000 to clean it up and fence it so access was not as easy for them in future.

 

[cuttey]

Another story from another bloke from work , he lives in Peterborough and the story goes ,in a part of Peterborough

These travellers where moaning they didn't have a permanent site , by the Council , so the local gov gave them what they wanted onsite loo's electric etc , and god knows what cost.

So they gypsies smashed it all up dug all the copper out of the loo's and ground and nicked all the valuable metal and sold it all.


bit weird they wanted a "permanent site" considering there "TRAVELLERS" who are meant to TRAVEL!!!

 

[bill_gj]

Same thing happened in Dagenham, but about 35 years ago!!

An area was 'developed' for them.
Some very nice ex-gravel pit ponds were filled in (they used to be full of common newts, so these days the newts would have won), lighting, toilets, wash block, electricity, the works.

Within a few months, all the metals had been removed, a proportion of the scum moved on, and the ones that stayed were complaining about the state of the site.

 

[MrFluffy]

They have semi permanent camps here, with pitches with free electric hook up, waste facilities etc. Theyre always pretty full too.
Ive often joked with my wife if we pull in with our motorhome for a quick holiday if I'd be allowed to hook up for free and empty my waste tanks in the nice facilities etc, or would they have a thing or two to say about that (ive been told already they would...)
In the meantime, when I pull into a free aire du camping for a overnight stop, if our transit powered friends are there, I just drive on through. You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses...