Posted on 02/06/2004 7:20:52 PM PST by blam
Same as I recall. I wonder if they have moved uo to carrying at least .40.
Now, if they could just find a way to start a holy war between the wingless pigeons (gypsies) and the Moors, Spain would be an infinitely better place.
A comparison of the DNA profiles of the two populations might prove interesting, now that I think of it.....
LOL! Although I believe Gypsies are actually thought to have come from India rather than the Middle East...
A couple of years ago, I was attending a noon Mass in a church in Madrid when the door burst open and a small troop of gypsies (probably Romanian gypsies) burst in.
They roamed up and down the aisles and finally fixed on a little old lady in the back of the church. One went up and asked her for money, and the others started grabbing at her purse.
Being a good Spanish old lady, however, she was not about to give it up without a fight, and she hung onto it and began to scream.
The men in the church, along with the sacristan, ran up to help her, and the sacristan grabbed one of the women and marched her to the door.
Surrounded by the men in the church, the gypsies left - but as they did, one of them turned around and screamed, "Racistas! Racistas!" (Racists, racists.)
I guess modern Gypsies are going through the Jesse Jackson Training School.
Bob. Hi backatcha! Yep. What you said! HeHe. Btw, I spent 13 months at TJ from March 69 - April 70. Got credit for a short tour out of it!
Tracer, while we were in Marbella last summer, a filthy Gypsy woman came up to us in bus station and begged, no, DEMANDED money. Wife told her she would have more success if she bathed. The Gypsy let out a stream of obviously curses in a language wife didn't understand. The bystanders who saw it thought she may have been speaking Rumanian. They seem to be the new Gypsys and con artists in Spain.
I remember sitting at a table outside a cafe in Segovia and being approached by a sordid woman who "announced her office" thus: "Soy Romano!!" and proceeded to demand money. We slipped a few pesatas her way and she rcoilid in digust, shouting "Paper money!! Paper money!!
I stood up and advised her in my best drill instructor voice that if she and her accompanying thugs lurking across the street did not get out of my face they would be tasting authentic Spanish polish from my size 13 Doc Martens through their undoubtedly well-encrusted rectums.
The Spaniards who were watching this unfold either gasped, laughed, cowered, or slinked away. The Brits and Germans present, however, applauded, howled with laughter, and then offered to join the fray (the French promptly surrendered and were led away by gypsy children).
I suppose that it's a miracle that a stupid lout such as I continues to draw breath in this crazy world, but I always make sure that my wife, other family members, and others whom I have hazarded have and utilize reliable escape routes and places of refuge before I face with a convincing snarl and a well-cultivated "thousand-foot stare" the wingless pigeons that insist on polluting the environment with their presence.
BTW, the trains in Spain stay mainly on the .... schedule (By George, he's got it!!). We prudently caught the next one out of town as planned......
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