Re: gypsys
 

thank you for your support - i understand and think what you saying is correct. there is good in bad in everyone.

whilst some travvellers may travel and some be pulled at sites and others in houses. they are travellers because of their cultutre not whether they move about or not.

i just believe every individual deserves a chance no matter what race colour creed or culture.

xxx

Re: gypsys
 

Many many years ago, I sold cars for a living, one August in the mid 90's we had a Traveller/Gypsy come in to our showroom. He was in his mid 20's and decided to buy a £60,000.00 Mercedes Benz SL280. We had to de-badge it and replace the badges with SL600 and V12 decals.

The night before he collected it, he asked me to organise fitting his stereo (in those days Mercedes did not fit one as standard), I told him we would try and he brought in several large boxes containing Sub Woofer, speakers and the unit itself, being 4.40pm I told him that we could drop the head unit in, but if he wanted the rest he would have to do a deal with the mechanic, he offered him £20.00 to do the lot. Our mechanic politely declined, the customer was not very happy, I did mention if he was prepared to give our lad a few £100, then he would happily work into the night, the customer was amazed at that!

Anyway the next day he and his girlfriend arrive, very scruffily dressed, she in white high heels, and two Tesco Bags full of £10.00 notes.
Our accountant was not happy at having to count £59,000.00 cash, (he had left £1000.00 deposit in used £10.00 notes as well), still it was interesting.

The gentleman and his girl spent most of the day playing with the roof of the car and trying to persuade the mechanics to fit his stereo for nothing.

This guy and his fellow travellers, did not pay any taxes, everything was in cash. Interesting culture.

Re: gypsys
 

Fifty Nine thousand in readys? I wonder how much lead off how many church roofs that equates to?

Re: gypsys
 

Ha ha quite a funny story :)

Yes some pay tax some dont but tbh the ones who dont dont tend to use public services anyway

And plenty of 'us' dont pay taxes either! we all see the stories in the paper lol xx

Re: gypsys
 

may I also comment that a few months ago the some travellers pulled up on their way back from appleby at church traffic lights. I think there were 3 or 4 trailers plus vans and cars.

It was interesting to see that when tey shifted there was not one piece of rubbish left or litter. and all their belongings had been taken, and their neatly bagged garbage was left with the car parts business at the side.

Very respectful I thought. And proves a lot of people wrong.

Re: gypsys
 

Bet you couldnt do that nowadays.

Suppose it shows dont judge a book by its cover.

Re: gypsys
 

Na he'd pay ya in lead these days:D:D

Re: gypsys
 

you'd be suprised!

Re: gypsys
 

Not really:rolleyes:

Re: gypsys
 

Or Copper.:D

I was more refering to paying for something with that amount of cash.

Questions should be asked where the money come from.

Re: gypsys
 

Majority of them from working hard and spending little. its a lot cheaper to live in a trailer than a house

Re: gypsys
 

But not all, we've all got our black sheep haven't we ?

BBC News - Roma rights campaigner jailed for £2.9m benefits scam

Re: gypsys
 

Its not That I think they wouldnt have the money.

Its more the way having that money(In cash) is looked upon now by business.

HM Revenue & Customs: How to report a suspicious transaction or activity

Re: gypsys
 

Well they dont tend to use banks (unless their businesses are huge) as they dont really trust them plus as some have stated before some dont pay taxes. but what they dont pay in taxes probably covers the publics services they dont bother to use so not much impact or affect on us.

Re: gypsys
 

yep naughty naughty theres black sheep everywhere lols xx