Travellers staying close to Reginald Mitchell
I'm not sure exactly where the travellers are camped today, but I'm guessing it's not to far from the Bankeyfields estate, as I've just had the charming experience of being in the Bankeyfields park at the same time as three traveller kids, two teenagers and a youngling.
They were playing nicely, until the bigger kids decides she's finished with her half drunk can of pop, and decides that instead to walking a few feet to the bin to chuck it across park. Well if you've read this site before, I like the park to be clean and safe for all kids playing on it. I hate to see littering anyway, but to be so blatent about it when there are adults about seemed really rude.
When asked civily if she would be picking the can up and putting it in the bin, I was told that she'd be doing it once she'd finished on the roundabout. As they left the park, I asked again, if she'd be picking her can up, and she said "yes, next year".
Fair enough, on private land you can do all sorts of stuff, like take a dump outside, throw litter anywhere you want and so on, with out any retribution, but in a public park, you have respect the laws of the land, and these kids, had no respect, they just assumed they have right to make a mess.
Well, they aren't doing anything for their cause, and I personally can't wait to see the back of them.
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Webb Monkey, this is what
Webb Monkey, this is what people see, and they cannot complain.
As to "respect" the majority of them would not know what it meant if it hit them on the head.
I too cannot wait to see the back of them.
Lets hope the council grow a backbone.
Agree Webb Monkey. There is
Agree Webb Monkey. There is no respect at all. However, if I was to call these "travellers" gypos, I could be accused of showing disrespect to a minority group, therefore I won't.
If these "travellers" wish to live life on the road, not conforming to our lifestyles (in other words, paying no tax) then they should take their mobile homes into the middle of the moors or to the highlands of Scotland where there are no people and services around for miles and miles.
Maybe there is too much of an
Maybe there is too much of an economy around these folk that make it hard to build laws around them, I imagine the solicitors of the world must earn a fair penny from doing the same old work over and over.
But I wonder if the resources that get tied up moving them on, such as council officers, courts, magistrates (all of a whopping wage) could be used better else were, and cut some of the red tape. Maybe costs should be reclaimed in terms of fines gathered from littering.
I notice they have a camp over by the cricket club, which seems to be growing all of the time, and they don't seem in any hurry to leave. I keep half expecting them to end up in the Paddock, at the bottom of John Rhodes Way.
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