Why do some travellers insist on being vile??

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Trying to make the title as uninflammatory as possible is bloody hard!!

So, another local news report of travellers sh*tting in local youth sports area

This isn't a pitchforks at dawn type thread, a genuine bafflement - why do they do that??

I know not all do etc, but the ones that come here seem to a lot.

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind it?

I know....

*Crying....oh, now that was amusing

at fio's post!

We have travellers all over our small town at the mo as there's a horse fair in next town. They are EVERYWHERE and they do cause a lot of trouble. Fighting in the pubs, things being stolen from houses/sheds etc (although a mate told me that some locals do it too, so the travellers will get the blame )

We have a travellers site 2 minutes up the the road from us. It is clean and well managed and we have had no extra crime in the area.

At the beginning of May just after the bank holiday the chain on the gate to our local grassed amenity area was cut and 2 caravans moved on to it. By the time they were moved off on the Friday before the last bank holiday there were about 30 vans of varying shapes and sizes on there. When they had been moved on the field was covered in rubbish, broken glass, broken toys, gas bottles, syringes and all sorts of other unplesant things. The line of trees along the edge of the field had been used as a toilet and stunk to high heaven. The rate of crime in our area shot up while they were there. The council had to get a specialist cleaning crew in to clean the area so that our children could use the field again, which cost a fortune.

So it's not all Travellers but there are a few who give the rest a bad name.

exasctly UrbanDryad - ''Travllers leave field as they found it'' does not make a good headline...

Come on, stop the generalising folks, and just accept that in every group of society there are good eggs and bad eggs.

Personally my prejudices are against people who show no respect to their surroundings - regardless of their colour, race, creed, hair colour, class or name of their children!

Hear, hear!

just keeping thinking of the gardening gloves folks...

I did say some in the title!

Certainly not all, or even most, just some. Its an annual thing here - they come, different spots each time and they wreck where they have been (normally a children's place - the worst being when they destroyed the cycling training centre ).

MissGolightly - one of my friend's brothers once went out with a mate and killed a swan to take home to cook. An apparently nice, middle class lad - bizarre.

Apparently swans mate for life and the one left alone often pines to death

Awwwww

I remember the news story with the swan - huge thread kicked off as I recall

Gawd, Fio, that's almost as good as your 'Then they can go and shit somewhere else' line.

I remember being on the Ferry to Ireland one year. I was about 7 yo. As the Ferry docked we all stood near the doors waiting to disembark. There was a family in front of us and the young lad of about 5 yo wanted the toilet. His mother didn't want to lose her place so told him to squat there where he stood and do his business - a steaming turd for all to see. I remember no-one saying a thing . I bet it got trodden on a few times on the way off though [vomit]

Someone once crapped in a geography teachers cupboard when I was in school. They called all the boys into the hall and demanded that the guilty one confess! How did they know it was a boy???

Not that long ago some kid crapped in the middle of the floor of the toilet* in the school I work in. Which is a MS secondary school.

now swans are nasty viciuous bastard birds. We watched in horror last wekend as a swan ripped the head off goslings (we were on wrong side of river to do anything, plus we didn't fancy getting attatcked ourselves TBH.)

Besides, if the queen is allowed to eat swans, why shouldn't we?

My sister had a phantom crapper at her dance school.Someone left a turd in the sinks every week.The CO/OP am/dram group shared the premises & she suspected it was one of them & even staked out the loos,but never caught the culprit.

People who allow their dogs to crap all over a children's playing field are VILE too.