Where do the stolen chippers go?

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, paddyvero said:

Weigh it in and lift another one? 

Well perhaps.

But it’s not pick-n-mix, these things aren’t that easy to nick, and the owners are often big blokes with chainsaws to hand.

[Peasgood]

27 minutes ago, lux said:

gypo’s on the continent might be more traditional Romany without the crime and leaving rubbish everywhere

Jimmy Carr recently explained why that not be the case.

[Ty Korrigan]

9 hours ago, David Cropper said:

Call me cynical,  but Stuart Lee seems awfully quiet on the subject of chippers at the moment. Just a thought.

I wish a Manouche would pinch that bloody 150P from the mechanics yard and end our suffering at the hands of Briggs.

 

[Ty Korrigan]

49 minutes ago, lux said:

Are the french pikeys much the same as the other side of the water ?
And despised by the general population as much ?
What’s the slang term for a pikey in french

I never see a French 'pikey' with a chipper.

I put this down to the logistics of an extra towing vehicule, local green waste tips that are easier to access and the French gypos general maniac level of hygiene which makes them stand out from regular tree surgeons.

Every gypo tipper or flat bed looks like showroom condition.

When I had a groundscare contract for the local council run gypsy site, the men were either out in the grift or washing their caravans and vehicules.

They looked at our truck with disgust.

    

[Ty Korrigan]

1 hour ago, Peasgood said:

Jimmy Carr recently explained why that not be the case.

There is certainly more investment in sites in France. 

Waste disposal is easier though selling scrap is now highly reglemented. Scrappy prints a cheque, no cash transactions, business need to open an account.

In all my dealings with them, even ones I quite liked, they are all to a man, bred to the idea that ordinary people are there to be exploited and that is literally a God given right according to their traditions.

I'm occasionally taken for a gypsy even by Gendarmes, working with my brown skinned wife, The Afghan when he was around and Komatsu Clive who really does look the part so now doesn't wash his white van, no gypo would drive a dirty vehicule.

Most of the real crime though around here is Romanian Roma based, not French 'Gens de voyage'

Last Summer I gave a witness statement involving a Roma gang.

They had been engaged in distraction thefts here on this sheltered housing project we live on. 

They are easy enough to spot.

I know beauty is subjective but...

The large catalogue of mug shots I was shown of rogue Roma looked like a couch casting for Orcs in Lord of the Rings.

The Gendarmes credited over 80% of all theft in our town down to one group of Roma.

A few days later I chased another door knocker off attempting to gain access by selling ordinary sponges and wipes from a satchel.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by Ty Korrigan

[Moose McAlpine]

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Edited February 10, 2022 by Moose McAlpine

[Conor Wright]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 and the owners are often big blokes with chainsaws to hand.

And fast asleep at 3am because they spent the day doing an honest job.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

41 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

There is certainly more investment in sites in France. 

Waste disposal is easier though selling scrap is now highly reglemented. Scrappy prints a cheque, no cash transactions, business need to open an account.

In all my dealings with them, even ones I quite liked, they are all to a man, bred to the idea that ordinary people are there to be exploited and that is literally a God given right according to their traditions.

I'm occasionally taken for a gypsy even by Gendarmes, working with my brown skinned wife, The Afghan when he was around and Komatsu Clive who really does look the part so now doesn't wash his white van, no gypo would drive a dirty vehicule.

Most of the real crime though around here is Romanian Roma based, not French 'Gens de voyage'

Last Summer I gave a witness statement involving a Roma gang.

They had been engaged in distraction thefts here on this sheltered housing project we live on. 

They are easy enough to spot.

I know beauty is subjective but...

The large catalogue of mug shots I was shown of rogue Roma looked like a couch casting for Orcs in Lord of the Rings.

The Gendarmes credited over 80% of all theft in our town down to one group of Roma.

A few days later I chased another door knocker off attempting to gain access by selling ordinary sponges and wipes from a satchel.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same here, instantly identifiable.

Very short, and swarthy, if that’s still a word.

[Ty Korrigan]

22 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Same here, instantly identifiable.

Very short, and swarthy, if that’s still a word.

There is a gender fluid person on FB somewhere who would call you an incel for using a 'racist' term but here mate, you are safe amongst friends...

 

Hairy Mary quite contrary

Where does your gender flow?

Have you got balls?

Or dry snatch walls?

With piercings all in a row...

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by Ty Korrigan

[Mark Bolam]

I’m quite chuffed so far that this thread hasn’t attracted some bleeding heart defending the dids.

We all know the craic.