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AKCHOPPER: I remember them from my youth and from my professional career where I put about 100 (one hundred) of the thievin bastards in jail!
Sad that a whole culture (the majority but alas not ALL) of gypsies based their livelihoods on deceit, dishonesty and outright thievery!
In my experience and observations they worked as hard at thievery and dishonest dealings as many "honest" citizens who don't have to worry about jail time.
Oh well - to each their own.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

They used to do driveway blacktops in the summer where I grew up.

Interesting read about gypsies buried in Meridian MS.

As mentioned above , they are Romani.

Used to have em' in the driveway several times a year trying to sell asphalt.Ran one off at gunpoint when he snuck up behind me in the shop one day.I guess he spread the word,because I haven't seen one since !

I hadn’t thought about this in years but I remember as a young kid my parents talking about a warning that was issued about people going through our neighborhood and taking down payments for driveway work but leaving town without doing the work. Thinking back it was probably Gypsies/travelers.

Growing up in the 50's and 60's I don't remember Gypsies running scams in our neighborhood. What I do remember is Gypsies living in their cars across the street from our house when the Gypsie King was in the hospital around the corner.

Heard about them but don't remember seeing them, but then again we were out in the country

Hobos, yes jokes, and newspapers hanging the fence for a windbreak.

"give".

My folks would have sold us.

Why give away a perfectly functioning mini worker when you can get some cash from the Gypsies?

They tend to specialize in a scam.
One of their favorites in the summer, more so in the past when
everyone didn't have a/c, is to knock on your door and engage
in a conversation. Asking for directions, selling something...
Then another would sneak into another door and steal.


Sometimes, they would come through the area and no one noticed.
Then, over a period of time, people have things missing.
Jewelry, silver, small things of higher value. Then either Someone
tells of catching one in the house, or folks talk and the person at the
door is brought up. Suddenly, numerous folks realize what happened.

This scam was one usually run by women.
While the men were busy painting tar roofs or asphalt with dirty
motor oil.

Irish Travellers are a different but similar group.
There Is a big settlement of them in South Carolina.

They are completely different people.

It’s like saying the Salvadoran street gangs are the same as the mob.

Arent the Gypsies selling extended car warranties now?

They are almost as corrupt as the Biteme admin.

Irish Travelers used to be around some, never saw any gypsies though.

Community I grew up in in Indiana would have been hard to distinguish the gypsies from the natives


Mike

Yeah , I remember them coming thru painting a bunch of roofs and the first rain it all washed off. The gypsies were long gone

Never had gypsies but had a few Grizzleys and the occasional Polar Bear....
Gypsies (seemingly) had more sense than to "do what they do" in Nome, circa the late 1950's.

Billy,
Thought I made that clear.
They are different backgrounds, ethnicity.

they also engage in similar nomadic crime.

If I see either at Wal-Mart, I'm warning folks they are out and about.



Doies that cover it? Or what's missing?

Used to work with one. He didn't do the stereotype any favors.

Used to be lots of gypsies around, then some German families moved into the area, then they seemed to move on, nobody knows where.