General Discussion
I saw them driving around the Playing Fields thisafternoon and now they have made themselves at home behind the kids play area. Someone said there will be more joining them.
Good luck to those nearby - make sure everything is locked up and that anything of value (metal, tools, etc) is safely stored away and put out of sight of the pikey scum.
Dont suppose anyone is planning on doing anything to get rid of the scum, where I come from the local youth would have set about them by now.
No sign of any Local, District or County Council action then, mind you the state of the town this morning its no wonder the Pikey's feel at home. There is rubbish everywhere, upturned bins across from 2&4 and out side the hairdressers, no sign of the grass verges being mowed along Exeter Road (or is that Sainsbury's responsibility now). Litter, rubbish and new age travellers parked on Brunswick and the Strand. Piles of rubbish in the compound by Barton Toilets in clear view of visitors. Sandy lane re-cycling has more crap on the floor than in the skips.
Dont know about the Voices for Dawlish more like need to go to Specsavers.
Come on the Town council get this shit hole cleaned up ready for next week, or Teignmouth will take all the honours again. There's plenty of free labour in town, "unemployed, single mothers, Langdon Lunes to name but a few.
I know someone contacted the police yesterday and they had already been informed and said it was not a police matter but Teignbridge council's responsibility. Does that mean their cars are legally parked.
It might not be a Police matter but they will have to be involved I would have thought when they are moved on.
I understand they were moved from the Morrisons site in Teignmouth, how did they do it?
To be fair, they don't look like pikeys, but more like grockles who are too tight to pay at a campsite.
From that link:
DavaarIsland wrote:
Absolutely outrageous, that someone should make such a comment.
She could have called them, habitual law breakers, for that is what they are. Land despoiler's for that is also what they are, unwanted visitors because they always are.
If fact there are a million things one can say about "travellers" and all of them negative.
we were talking to the man picking up rubbish over the park thismorning and he told us one of the Travellers asked him if he would pick up their rubbish, he said no but gave them two black plastic bags and said if they put their rubbish in them and leave them by the path he would collect them after.
My friend said she put a black plastic bag out on collection day and it never got taken!
Has this become another exercise in buck-passing? There are plenty of precedents for this; anyone remember the saga of the ice in the Barton surgery car park 2 winters ago. No-one wanted to take any responsibility for that until the publicity got so bad that they were forced to do something about it. That's just one example. It seems that everyone just wants to sit back, take their inflated salaries & live a cosy existence up in their ivory towers far from the problems they are put there to deal with.
I can get a few of my boy's together and get them moved on .
peaceful like . just a word in there shell like.
It seems we have the "European Convention on Human Rights" (ECHR) to thank for this situation.
Article 8 of the ECHR states:
1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence;
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Over recent years, there has been an ongoing debate as to whether Gypsies and Travellers facing eviction from unauthorised encampments by public authorities could seek to use Article 8 as a defence to those proceedings, for example by arguing that there had been a failure to provide sites for Gypsies and Travellers in the area in question.
Excerpts from: http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/rights-of-gypsies-and-travellers/evictions-from-unauthorised-encampements/index.shtml
Surely in this case there is no failure to provide a site locally. It takes all of 15 minutes to get to the Haldon site which has the facilities that the leisure fields don't have?
I'm still not convinced they aren't holidaymakers looking for a free place to camp ...
They've gone. After just 4 days and the site looks tidy enough. Still it gave the usual suspects the opportunity to have a pop at the council, so it wasn't all bad.
They never stay long after all thats why they are called travellers, I sometimes envy their way of life
most of the so called Travellers actually have houses usually in the North of England.They stay home in the winter and tootle off in their caravans for the summer months. You recognise them as they all have top pf the range 4x4s or Mercs.
Many now go abroad for the summer organising tarmac gangs in Belgium and Holland working for cash paying no taxes or vat then home for the winter boozing and being obnoxious on their summer earnings.