Bloody Sick Of Them Now

[Monaro Pete]

On Friday 5th we had Pikeys move onto the local park. First a few & now after nearly two weeks you can't down there for the dirty bastards.
This park is within a stones throw of my house.
I rang the council on the following Monday & they told me they'd had lots of phone calls about them & the council have to go through all the legal procedures....... Going to court, obtaining a court order with a date for them to leave, serving the court order etc etc.
Now all this costs many hundreds of pounds of yours & mine hard earned cash.
Basically they've cut through a padlock & opened the barrier to gain access. There's rubbish all over the park, dog shit & worst of all human shit every were in the wooded area with tissues that they've wiped their arses with.
I rang the council again today to get an update..... They said a court order has been served for them to leave at the weekend & if their not gone by then the bailiffs & the police will used, she said they don't normally wait for that to happen & leave.
So basically two weeks we've put up with them. I usually cut across the park to gain access through the Ind Est & then onto the fields when I take the dog a walk.
They have god knows how many dogs running loose & mine just goes mad, because she sees them as a threat to her & me.
When they've gone I shall take pictures of all the mess they've left & send it of to my MP.
Now I expect the dumb ass council will come along clean up the mess, replace the lock with another chocolate one & go away.
I expect the Pikeys love it on the park as it's very quiet & I expect in the future they'll return. Now they've found the place, as they've not been on this park before.
Instead of making the park more secure with a proper barrier that can't be so easily forced the council won't, they'll just wait for the next time & then it'll cost more money to repeat what could be prevented for a smaller expense, but in the long term quite a large expense.

These dirty bastards have really pissed me off & I've laid awake at night trying to think of a way to piss them off so they'll leave, but as of yet I haven't come up with anything that doesn't put me in danger or anyone else after they've gone.

If you're interested I shall post pics on here for you all to see, though it's not like you probably haven't experienced them your self. Though I hadn't up this close till now.

[elty001]

A friend of mine lives opposite the school and she was telling me earlier today what a state the place is in.
Been a while since we had any down your way. Last I can remember is when they took up residence at the bottom of the railway station carpark.
I used to cut through that way to get to work at Blackwell and it was a right mess.

[The Patrolman]

Acrophobic, homophobic n xenophobic a as my views come out
These peoples call them selves travellers, so crack on fellas n travel, just don't leave all your sh!t behind when you go...we are all passing through somewhere

[solarman216]

We had them a about 4 or 5 years ago a couple of fields away, they came to me looking for water, I calmly explained that we draw our water from the ground and have to pump and filter it as we are not on the mains, so none spare, they left, but a while later our very old and fat Jack bitch went missing for several days, so off I went to their site, confronted a woman in a van and said "have you seen a Jack Russel bitch black and white" she said "no but have a pregnant bitch" I said "let me see her" standing bolt upright with a sour look on my face, she came out with our dog Bonnie, I said " she is not a pregnant bitch, she is a fat old lady, keep your f*****g hands of and if I have to come over here again it will be with with a f*****g chain saw", never saw them again and shortly later they were moved on, some friends on a farm not far away also had them, police did not want to know so father and son went down one evening with shotguns let off a few at their vans, they were gone next morning, they were stealing Derv from the farm tank, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Farmer round here used to go down with the slurry spreader, once word got round he was willing to use it he didn't get too many turning up

[macabethiel]

Trouble is in Derby the City Council has failed to meet it's Statutory Obligation to provide a Park for "Travellers" since the legislation was passed over 20 years ago for Local Authorities to provide such sites.

Whenever the Council Try to Designate / Identify a site and apply for Panning Consent the local NIMBY's quite understandably protest so as the Council want to get re-elected it never get provided.

Here at least in Derby we are the authors of our own troubles. If there is a Designated site then any unlawful camp in a certain radius can be moved without the need for a Court Orders. Its just a Police Visit then they have to go within I think it's 12 or 24 hours.

[Madmark]

Originally Posted by terranosaurusdoug

Farmer round here used to go down with the slurry spreader, once word got round he was willing to use it he didn't get too many turning up

That's exactly what we do here. They won't stay around shit so guess they do have standards lol. But yeah very often the spreader comes out when a few turn up and coats the hedge line and them if the farmer sees fit to do so. One time he chucked a few nice sized flints in and waited for them to dissappear off (steeling trip ) nd it pretty much distroyed couple of the vans was awesome to watch

[Blocky10]

If you've lost your key, what do you do? Use a pi-key
We had them near us for maybe 5 weeks. They found the gate "open" apparently and left a huge mess behind