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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
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They used to do driveway blacktops in the summer where I grew up.
The way life should be.
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Interesting read about gypsies buried in Meridian MS. As mentioned above , they are Romani.
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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 !
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PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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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.
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Heard about them but don't remember seeing them, but then again we were out in the country
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Hobos, yes jokes, and newspapers hanging the fence for a windbreak.
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They were more common here in rural WI when my mother was young. She used to tell stories about where they set up camp and watching them closely when they were in her dad's store. When we were young and got out of line a bit, she used to threaten to, "give us to the gypsies if we didn't behave"! "give". My folks would have sold us. Why give away a perfectly functioning mini worker when you can get some cash from the Gypsies?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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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.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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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.
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Arent the Gypsies selling extended car warranties now?
They are almost as corrupt as the Biteme admin.
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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
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Yeah , I remember them coming thru painting a bunch of roofs and the first rain it all washed off. The gypsies were long gone
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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.
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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?
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Used to work with one. He didn't do the stereotype any favors.
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Used to be lots of gypsies around, then some German families moved into the area, then they seemed to move on, nobody knows where.
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