I asked one of the local farmers about the rat problem. He said, "First thing is, make sure you aren't feeding 'em. If they can get at the hen food or owt you'll always have 'em. Yer see, they're like the gippoes; if they can't find owt to pinch they'll move on."
Bill
Actually, we have just had an incident here. its not so much nicking stuff as causing mayhem then rolling off into the sunset leaving the local authority and land owner to clean up the mess. These people are not what I used to know as Gypsies Behind this house for many years was scrub land, used during the war for air raid shelters, so full of pits. Every year about Derby time, along came some Gypsies. Nice people, kept themselves to themselves and cleaned up after them, you would never know they had been here, except one time when one of their hoses thought the plants in our garden were far better to eat than grass, but never mind. The people we get now are just tinkers and freeloaders with out of control dogs and kids who ride quad bikes all over the local cricket pitches and leave their crap behind them. The Police are not interested as they do not have the manpower to move them on any more, so it just is left and they freeload off the rest of us. I'm sure some of the old type of Gypsies exist, indeed I used to know a few around here who raced pony and traps. They have nothing but disgust for the travellers, and call them Didis, whatever that means.
So there you are, I personally think that somebody needs to recruit the true Gypsies and a few heavies and give them a bit of their own bullying ways, but them the Police would then no doubt arrest them for breaches of the peace.
Nuff said. Brian
Brian Gaff presented the following explanation :
Didicoys? But I have no idea..
Our next door neighbours: in their early 80's. He, an ex-BBC producer who did a Phd when he retired, now suffers from slow progressing cancer, is quite frail, and cares for his wife who has pretty advance dementia. Lovely people, but very private. We keep a close eye on them as their children live very far away.
I received a call from from their daughter in London last month. Travellers knocked on their door and offered to replace their gutters for a couple of hundred pounds (which is probably an ok price). He usually comes over the ask for my opinion in these cases, but I was away, so he gave them the go ahead to start straight away. By the time their daughter heard about it a few days later the gutters were gone, and the bill has increased to over £4000, and would have increased to much more had she not threatened them over the phone with calling the police... Apparently half the roof needed replacing (it is absolutely fine needless to say).
Sounds fair to me
But is not "moving on" their correct job title? eg travellers
Usually moving on just having done a bad tarmac driveway job and leaving a pile of s**te behind them in the camp site/road layby?
Same happened here a few years back. Travelers occupied a field and went about their normal businesses, mainly alternative skip services where they provided the labour and trucks to cart off the rubbish. Guess where all this rubbish ended up?
Romany word for a traveller usually not proper Romany, but of mixed blood or none at all.
In this context often Irish. AIUI in Eire trespass is a criminal offence, so they've all come over here.
Andy
Some folks that come under the umbrella term 'gypsy' are actually perfectly nice people; honest, clean, decent. It's the Irish lot (who invariably, it seems, trash 'their' environment by leaving the land like a filthy rubbish dump) are the variety you really don't want turning up anywhere near you. Quite why they have to be so very unpleasant is a mystery.
If they were cast iron gutters, many take them away and are never seen again. They even have van signs made of the sticker material they can peel off and change at a whim, I am told.No when Wanted gutters doing I asked others and found a company who did what they said for the price they quoted. Yes they took the cast iron ones, but why not? Brian
It happens that JoeJoe formulated :
I get them here - The dogs raise the alarm and keep them from coming in the gate. I have to go down to see what they want, usually its relay the drive, sort the roof, the gutters or buy my caravan. I always take the phone along with me and what ever they want - the answer is no, push off. Some can get quite abusive.
My neighbour once explained that the Didicoys are the most troublesome sort of gypsy although I don't recall his argument.
Didicoy (Romani: didikai; also diddicoy, diddykai) is a term of the Romani or "Gypsies" for "Gypsies" and travellers with mixed Romani and non-Romani blood.
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