My father in law rented a place to Gypsies in Houston 40 years ago & when they left they even took the door knobs.
They always painted his barn and outbuildings for him. They slaughtered designated pigs free of charge, hung the meat in the smokehouse, and didn't steal anything.
In earlier times pieces of his land had served as burial grounds for "slavecatchers" sent up from Kentucky to retrieve runaway slaves. They never returned to Kentucky with or without slaves.
One gathers the Gypsies knew they trod on truly sacred ground when they came to that place.
My sister is a labor and delivery nurse and her hubby is an OB-GYN. They say when a gypsy comes into the hospital to deliver a baby, the staff immediately clears everything possible out of the labor room before the patient is brought in or it will all be gone when the family leaves.
OTOH, when I was young my grandmother had two friends, two other grandmas right around her age, that were neighbors of hers. They were sisters, except one was a child that was born into the family and the other had been adopted. How that happened was that the father allowed a band of gypsies to squat for a few days on his land. When they decided to move on, a little baby girl in the group was ill. So they just left her behind so that they could leave. Imagine that. Just left behind because she was sick. Didn't steal a baby, they just dumped her.
My parents rented a house to some non-Gypsies 5 years ago, and they trashed the place, then left without paying their rent.
And to think, while these dirty slobs were at school it was probably THEM calling the GYPSY kids "thieving, dirty Gypsy!"
Perpetuating sterotypes is the mark of an ignorant person, and a cause of much grief for good and honest Romanies.