[Stoat]

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Looking out from his caravan, one of the gipsies watches the builders dig a moat around their camp

 

First the builders put up 20 panels of 8ft high metal fencing to encourage the gipsies to move. When they didn't, they called in the digger to make a moat

 

The gipsy site before the moat was dug

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Related:

Britain's No1 gipsy site KO'd (Over 1000 Travellers evicted after local villagers' protests)

[Stoat]

A police spokesman for Bedfordshire police said they were not involved in the matter 'as common sense prevailed to resolve it peaceably'.

He said: 'This was not a matter for us as it didn't escalate into a breach of the peace.
 

'It is up to landowners to seek legal advice to remove people who move onto their land. It is a civil matter.

'Landowners are also within their rights to build a barricade on their land. If they had trapped the travellers on site, they would not have broken the law.'

[ClearCase_guy]

They could have been trapped by a 4 ft moat! Hey, I’ve got an idea for how we can secure our southern border ...

[Jaxter]

Well, there's always napalm..

[Travis T. OJustice]

Never piss off someone that owns a backhoe!

[Daffynition]

[MathDoc]

What is happening to the world? Moats are back. Pirates are back (at far more than the usual rate). Even Socialism is back - with an Affirmative Action socialist whose vice president describes him as “articulate and bright and clean”. What else is going to return: the Crusades, the Plague, or both?

[utherdoul]

anyone else reminded of that episode of king of the hill where they used a similar method to get the hippies off the national park?

[Incorrigible]

My relatives in Ireland recently told me that some tinkers had set up camp in the center of the island formed by a round-a-bout (traffic circle). They had to be paid over a million euro in order to get rid of them.

[Ancesthntr]

Alligators, where are the alligators?

[Peter Libra]

A little background here on this business. First of all the politically correct persons declared the word "Gypsy" a forbidden word. This was because over the years it became a word of contempt, not the romantic versions. The word became "Travellers".

Then the people who were claimants to the original and known "gypsies" became angered. They did not want to be known as "Travellers". So, once again the word became sort of accepted. Now the England and Wales births, marriages and deaths registry, was very meticulous. It was instituted in 1837. The census proper was started in 1851. Every ten years they knocked on doors. The 1841 census not too comprehensive.

Researchers have shown that only 5000 to 7000 persons exist in the UK as having any lineage to "Gypsy" that would go to 1901. There are reputed 95,000 "travellers" adrift and living off welfare benefits in that country. They are protected by the "human rights" acts as sort of being like gypsies.

The census is the arbiter of many claims. It outed Charlie Chaplin who claimed he was descended from Jewish people. Looked good. He was descended from Protestant French. (Chuckle).

[VaBthang4]

Heyacantbuildamoatroundmehomeyaknow?!

[Myrddin]

An agitated skunk up wind of the parking lot might have provided a gentle motivation to leave as well.

[happygrl]

I admit that gypsies are one group that I totaly prejudge, having had experiences with them in my town, where they scammed the elderly.