Posted on 08/17/2016 11:53:04 AM PDT by Gamecock
Great flic - if you can call up the close-captioning to follow the dialogue!
The Irish Travelers have been around for YEARS.
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I had forgotten about it but I also had a couple try the meat scam but a bit different.
They showed up with a box of what was marked as U.S. Choice steaks. They said they had delivered all they had but still had one left over and wanted to get rid of it at a good price.
I told them I could not use a box but might be interested in just a couple of steaks. They would only sell the box. I am actually not certain but pretty sure it was a scam.
When they come through an Irish county everybody hides the silver. :-)
There was a Law and Order Criminal Intent episode entitled “Graansha” about Irish Travelers. Very interesting people.
You meat him at the door with a cleaver? (yuk yuk)
“Gypsies & Travelers - a criminal society.”
Many years ago I was told by some kin they had a “Headquarters”near Rolla. Missouri....
If the truck has a West Virginia plate on it, I send them packing immediately. We have lots of WV gypsies running scams.
If you let them on your roof to check for loose shingles, they will knock a hole in it.
Driveway sealing is done with black paint.
My wife’s Grandfather was taken by them in the 1930s.
They sprayed his roof with an aluminum coating. The first rain washed it off. This was in Oklahoma.
My aunt has been taken within the past 7 years. Driveway sealing. An elderly person with dementia is a big pay day for them.
“Driveway sealing is done with black paint.”
I’ve heard others using used motor oil!
Chicago PD used to have separate gang books - latin, black, white... and gypsy.
They apparently make a lot of money but there is a downside.
Most of them have been caught and convicted a few times. I guess it is just a cost of doing business for them.
I once met one in a medium security prison. About 35 years old - did not know for sure. Born in America. Never went to school and could not sign his name. Claimed that he never had a Soc Sec number.
He said that his favorite scam was putting used motor oil on blacktop driveways. He said that he recognized fellow travelers by the particular type of truck that they drove.
I do not remember what his criminal charge was.
I watch a lot of British (& Irish & Scottish & Welsh) TV shows. They sometimes deal with issues of the “Irish Travelers.”
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Their scam I saw was thus:
They approach the victim and say “Our boss told us to go to the warehouse and get 10 of (whatever. In one case it was large speakers). We accidentally got 11 of them, so we need to get rid of one now, before returning to the boss. We’ll give you a great deal”.
They then open up a box and display the large speakers. “But hey, let me give you an unopened one” they say.
And when you get home you find it is full of bricks.
2 dudes tried it on me in an Academy parking lot. The product was “A home surround sound stereo system”. I laughed in their faces.
More recently I was in an HEB supermarket. A child passed behind me and threw something at my back. He was acting odd. I followed him. Turns out he was a filthy gypsy who was eating food off the shelves and hiding the wrappers, all with his parents’ approval. I stood by the family as they stole; the child was very sneaky about it. I contacted management. They did not believe the part about the parents coaxing the children to steal; it was just too crazy for a law abiding American to conceive, so I took the manager to the wrappers and then pointed out the family. The dad looked like he was going to stab me!
Filthy gypsies are filthy, disgusting people who think that one of their ancestors obtained a nail from Christ’s cross and thus God allows them to steal. For real, that is the justification for their criminality.
I grew up in Saluda SC
I didn’t but I live here now.. LOL
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