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Mt. Lebanon (PA) police apologize for offensive word in crime alert
WPXI ^ | July 8, 2018

Posted on 07/08/2018 4:53:11 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

MT. LEBANON, Pa. - Mt. Lebanon police are apologizing after complaints about a word used in a crime alert.

The department sent out a Lebo Alert and posted on social media Saturday about a series of home improvement scams and burglaries where the suspects try to distract their victim.

The alert, seen below, and posts described them as "gypsy-type crimes."

"White pickup w/ VA plates committing gypsy-type crimes in area (driveway scams, burglaries, etc). If something seems odd, call 911 ASAP!!!"

The vehicle involved in the incidents was described as a white pickup truck with West Virginia plates.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gypsies; mtlebanon; pittsburgh; police
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To: yarddog

Yes, “gypsy” does originate with “Egypt.” There were Gypsies (Romani) in Egypt in the 19th century, probably pursuing the growing tourist trade.

The Gypsies origin in India is now solidly established by linguistic and anthropological evidence and (to some extent) archaeology.

The connection with Romania is, like the connection with Egypt, a snapshot that became fixed in language. “Roma” were endemic across Central Europe for a thousand years, at least.


21 posted on 07/08/2018 5:28:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: GreenHornet
This is the second time Gilda Radner has come up today. Ah, she was a yente.
22 posted on 07/08/2018 5:33:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

These actually sound more like Irish Travelers than Gypsies. Gypsies won’t work that hard to steal. Irish Travelers will put a lot of work into their scams.


23 posted on 07/08/2018 5:38:00 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

WHITE pick up truck? The horror! The horror.


24 posted on 07/08/2018 5:44:42 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: PAR35

I am 71 and saw my first Gypsy caravan last year. Five wagons in Geneva, Alabama. Looked just like in the movies.


25 posted on 07/08/2018 5:47:23 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

OMG, heads should roll in the PC court.


26 posted on 07/08/2018 6:27:33 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone who has seen Gypsies in action, know the real deal. They are very real.


27 posted on 07/08/2018 6:33:47 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone who has seen Gypsies in action, know the real deal. They are very real.


28 posted on 07/08/2018 6:34:11 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

Were my ex-wife’s employers correct in their assessment?


29 posted on 07/08/2018 6:47:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

At least it wasn’t Irish Gypsys.


30 posted on 07/08/2018 7:10:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masss could be farts)
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To: HamiltonJay

In the late 70’s, Mt. Lebo built a ice rink for the high school. Us low life from the east (Churchill), who were just a club (not a sanctioned sport team like football)beat them for the title. They sued our organization, alleging we imported players. They lost in court, the guy we had, his home school did not have a hockey team, and since we were a self supporting club, he could play! Lebo Lefties from way back!


31 posted on 07/08/2018 7:25:10 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

True story. My cousin was a caterer in Baltimore and one day a gypsy group wanted him to do the food for a major wedding.

He said OK upon two conditions. They paid in full up front, and that all the silverware etc had to be counted and accounted for before they could leave. He later said that he’d never do it again.

THe other true story is that a Gypsy group matriarch got very sick and was taken to a nearby hospital. When the doctor told the male leader what the problem was and that it would involve a major/costly operation, the man waved his hand and about a dozen women came over. Then they pulled hundred dollar bills out of their bras until the estimated bill was paid. She survived.

The last story I heard, which I cannot vouch for, was that in order to snatch & grab items from a store, one woman would come in, lift up her skirt to her head (not wearing any underwear), and distract everyone while the others grabs items and fled. They didn’t have surveillance cameras of Iphones back in those days so this is still an urban myth.

One thing that is little known about the gypsies of Europe (i.e. mainly the Roma and one other grouping), was that they were terribly persecuted by the Germans/Nazis and killed in large numbers in concentration camps. They suffered from a smaller “Holocaust/genocide” that must not be forgotten, no matter who they were.


32 posted on 07/08/2018 7:29:55 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I remember when Gypsys used to come through here all the time back in the 1960s. Most who stayed used to have a “septic tank cleaning service”.


33 posted on 07/08/2018 8:56:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They do have the tackiest weddings ever!

We watched a couple of episodes of My Gypsy Wedding - unbelievable what these folks do.


34 posted on 07/09/2018 4:33:16 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: bigbob

Cher is a Cherokee, a gypsy, and committed plaything to Allman kind.


35 posted on 07/09/2018 4:40:39 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: ridesthemiles

“Travellers” is the name for gypsies in Ireland, where they have protected status as an official ethnic group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2016/08/irish-travellers-uphold-the-traditions-of-a-bygone-world/

There are significant groups of Travellers in the USA, including NY, PA, SC, and TX, where they often engage in home construction scams. One of their sources of income is to buy life insurance policies on their “blood relatives,” which can number in the hundreds or more because of inbreeding:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2002/09/what_is_an_irish_traveler.html

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/who-are-the-irish-travellers-in-the-us


36 posted on 07/09/2018 4:53:43 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Can’t offend the three people in Mt. Lebanon who have some degree of Romani heritage now, can we?


37 posted on 07/09/2018 7:19:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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