This is not the first time they've been in your street....you mentioned it once before.....couldn't the council somehow put post up around your green/park area so a car/caravan would be stopped from getting off the road onto that area....I know that sounds simple without knowing the lay-out......I assume your road is a cul-de-sac and not a through road.....gated entrance so only residents can get in....at the councils expense of course....but it's a lot of hassle for something that happens only say once a year.......change of the law so once they have been evicted they cannot return within 10 years....the penalty being confiscation of their property and an automatic jail sentence....but what happens to their families whilst they are in jail.....you the tax payer will be looking after them of course.....they could be repatriated to their ancestral home.....somewhere in eastern Europe then the EU can look after them.
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It's a full size park so fencing the whole of it isn't really an option. This is the third time in roughly the last 5 years. The Council built a bank alongside the road all the way to the top to stop caravans being able to be driven onto the grass. There has been work done by the Water People over the last 6 months and it is them who left the post out and ruined park of the bank without repairing it. Easy to be wise after the event but this has been borne out by residents checking now. Never thought to do it before. So thanks Water Company who removed their Plant quicker than you could blink when the Travellers turned up. Anyway the process has started to remove so nothing else to be done until it is complete. Still fuming though although the comments to residents appear to have be exhausted. None of these Travellers are Eastern European or even Irish. They are without exception white English. I did have to laugh this afternoon when one of the caravans had religious songs belting out of it. When you hear the language used by a lot of them you wouldn't think any of them even knew any God existed. They certainly don't have any good will to fellow men that's for sure.
Update on the caravan park. Most of them seem to have just moved on. That isn't normal so waiting for something to happen to fill the park up again. Around 15 of them pulled out either last night or today leaving 5 families behind. They seem to think they have to make noise to keep up appearances so that nobody notices the bulk of them have gone. The vehicle movement on the park is almost the same as when they were all here. I think they pay their kids to cry and shout all day long again to disguise the absents of numbers and dogs bark constantly. A young girl sat in her family car today and put a radio on full belt. I was tempted to get a load of beer in and put a sign up at the end of the road saying "GLASTONBURY" , open a bar and make a few quid out of it. In defence I did see one family picking up litter and putting it in a bin today. This evening they lit the usual bonfire for the kids. No lack of entertainment yet. We had a visit from a Community PC on day one. Absolutely nothing from the Council at all. Since then there has been a Police car that has turned up in the street twice. It drove up both times, turned in the carpark and then drove out of the street. Didn't stop and the combined total of their visits has been roughly 90 seconds. Makes me proud to pay my taxes and Council Tax. I bet if I caused a scene at the Traveller site they would be here quicker than you could blink and I would be escorted to the station. One of my neighbours saw something illegal going on and tried calling 101 which the Community PC advised on her initial visit day one. They were on their phone for 90 minutes on hold and got no answer. They didn't wait any longer as the music was rubbish. This is why places like Casualty are in a mess. People try to do the right thing by going down the non emergency route for something, get no joy at all from it so in their desperation they either ring 999 or take whatever emergency route they can. Sort it out Boris...............
101 is a waste of money. As you say, the phones aren't answered. If you try to use the online reporting tool, you have to wade through dozens of questions as to whether the matter is some kind of hate crime (including against travellers!), domestic violence and on and on and on. If you were for example reporting you car had been stolen, it would be in South Africa before the message got through. If 999 is to be for life or death emergencies, then 101 needs to be 1000% times better.
No further movement today so still the 5 remain. Last night at around midnight the disco music started again in full volume. It carried on until nearly 3am. Not a Policeman to be seen anywhere. The Police were here this evening when one of my neighbours came home from somewhere. I think he must have said something to Mr Plod as he passed because it got very heated. He was told by one of them that if he didn't go away or into his house they would nick him. He pointed to the park and said if I was living out there you wouldn't even be warning me. He did however go in. It's far more entertaining than the TV that's for sure.
I'd have to find something interesting to even turn it on first let alone turn it off. It's all gone very very quiet out there at the minute. Think something must be brewing.
No but my neighbour has a Chelsea Taxi BMW. I am surprised he still parks it outside and not in another street.
Of course it's only the nice friendly travellers who bother with the four bricks.....as long as you give them back their four bricks later.
I forgot that Argyle were playing Swansea today in all the excitement. Yippee the Travelling Citizens have left the arena. It was a bit of a surprise late this morning when the remaining caravans got hitched to the wagons and they rolled out of the park. They left behind a whole load of rubbish strewn around, several piles of sundry bits of tent, bike, toys, plastic sheeting and bedding. Also there is a stream on the far side of the park. It was full of used nappies and other stuff. In the top of the park there was several piles of human excretion where presumably they emptied their toilets. Last but not least among the broken bottles and cans was a car which had been stripped of anything worth stripping. And they wonder why they aren't particularly welcome. A Councillor turned up and spoke to several of us and promised to get a clean up as soon as was possible. Within an hour of this a whole team turned up with lorries and mechanical sweepers alongside a number of litter pickers with bin liners. Despite the heat they worked hard and cleared anything in site except the Car. This apparently had to be treated differently as it was a vehicle potentially with an owner. I suggested to the Councillor that the Fire Brigade be asked for advice due to the petrol still in the tank and it being in a kids park. She said it might not have any but I suggested it might. Within 2 hours of that conversation before the kids left school it was on the back of a truck and gone. The Clean up Boss was driving out of the street when he was flagged down by one of my neighbours. He asked if the human remains had been cleaned. Boss admitted he hadn't seen any but had not gone to the top of the park because none of the Travellers had camped there. He did an about turn and investigated. The boys in special suits will be sorting. All in all a good day.
