Being almost housebound has it good side of life because it gives you time to read and see more of the TV,
Ive been tune in to the police traffic programs and i was shocked to see the Police chase a car & caravan both taken off a driveway and driven in a police chase to a travellers camp park,
The driver ran out of the car and into a caravan on the site, the police we’re met by a large crowd of these park people and threats made to them, the young kids started to smash three police car window’s with bricks etc, When the one driver of the car was arrested the police had to get back-up,
The court gave this young lad (who had no Insurance or Licence) a really stupid sentence and the cost of the damage to the police cars (now two cars) was thousand’s of pounds but no payment to be made by those who caused the damage,
It’s said that crime dos’nt pay???
Do you think crime and punishment are right?
Do you think any council should be providing Land for these people to park on ?
Police have a hard job to perform, there are some jobs they should not be performing. Interactions between the police and a mentally ill person usually result in the ill person being shot.
Personally I abhor the pollie’s “get tough on crime” stance which leads to draconian and unnecessary laws. As an example the new hate speech laws enacted in a panic after the criminal caravan hoax.
I suspect that anyone who has direct and up close experience of such travelling people (actually, back in the 70’s we just called them Irish tinks) does not have a good opinion of them. They appear to use their travelling status as a way to avoid regulation, taxes and to hide illegal activity. This is surely wrong and not justified.
I had direct experience when in the 90’s I lived in the town of Ironbridge in Shropshire. In fact my house was over the river from the main town, and down by the river near the bridge itself. The council had build a large carpark up by the bridge - effectively up a steep embankment behind our house. We had a couple of reserved parking spaces up there. One day I got back from work and tried to get to my parking spaces but the whole carpark was full of traveller caravans, vans and lorries. They have broken the max height barrier and rapidly moved in. I had to find a space down by my house, rush back to the carpark to retrieve my wife’s car and carefully force my way out through all these traveller vehicles. We were lucky, they only stayed the weekend. Once they left we saw the mess and damage they’d done - rubbish dumped everywhere, broken fences and seats, trashed public toilet, defecation everywhere.
I think it is fair to say that my opinion of travelling people changed that weekend.
