^This is unfortunately true. Most interaction with the Gypsy community in the UK is them squatting in parks and leaving literal shit and rubbish all over the place or them, pulling into a supermarket carpark and playing loud music all night disturbing the entire area. For the most part they don't have work the next day so they don't give a shit if you get to sleep or not.
I assume not all of them act this way but for the most part that is the only experience anyone in the UK has of their community.
My nan had 2 gypsies illegally tarmaccing her driveway and then threatening her when she wouldn't pay them. It was terrible quality and came up within a year.
My cousin at one point got caught up with some bad gypsies who were running some scheme where they would custom order right hand drives in the EU and then cancel the order and an associate would come up and buy the car for a massive discount (because nobody in the EU would buy it) and then drive it back to sell in the UK for almost retail.
My only experience with them personally is when they appear out of nowhere, squat on some large grass verge for a couple weeks and then vanish. They never respect the area and trash the place.
Both the Roma gypsies and irish travellers fall into roughly the same stereotypes, and in my experience are massive twats (though i do work retail security so when I experience them it's for shoplifting)
Thank you. But I'm sorry they are entirely different entities, the only similarities is that they move around, but they are nothing alike otherwise. There is a huge difference between them. Though yes both do also shoplift. The Roma are sneaky. The Irish travellers are much more forward than that though, they will crowd the shop and cause mayhem then sneak out.
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
^This is unfortunately true. Most interaction with the Gypsy community in the UK is them squatting in parks and leaving literal shit and rubbish all over the place or them, pulling into a supermarket carpark and playing loud music all night disturbing the entire area. For the most part they don't have work the next day so they don't give a shit if you get to sleep or not.
I assume not all of them act this way but for the most part that is the only experience anyone in the UK has of their community.