They like to curse people who do not give them money on the subway. And dont give them any, because then like racketeering pimps they expect more out of you the next time , like you are some easy whore. The kids and women begging from matresses on the streets get collected by a pimp every morning. I don’t give them much to see them starting pocking kids’ eyes in order to get money.
It’s been so hard for me, as a Jew, to come to terms with Roma. I have travelled the world and seen so much suffering and sadness brought by this sad culture... It’s hard not to hate “them.”
Alas the last time I was mobbed, in Paris, I warned a man (the patriarch - they use their children as pawns) I would hurt him if he approached me again. (I warned him in French and Russian, to be clear.)
He thought I was bluffing. He grabbed my son.
I left him gasping for air in the street, horizontal, with blood just beginning to trickle from his nose. That was the last I saw of him, as his children watched, aghast but pitiless.
I still feel sorry for the poor misled kids.
My first wife was a GIA certified jeweler and buyer for Zales. They know the Gypsies all too well and warn each other when a gang is in town doing smash-and-grabs.