Posted on 09/28/2012 11:52:49 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Well, there was a time when their visits were highly welcome and there was less of a downside. Good metalworkers. Of course, nowadays people just throw their broken and dulled stuff away...
Some of that renown European tolerance Obama wants for the USA.
Yes they will steal most anything but they do murder and kill. The Roma are very tribal and have codes of contact within the clan but regarding non-Roma anything goes. The Tene Bimbo clan killed at least 8 elderly people in San Francisco between 1984 to 1993. Its known as the Foxglove murders. To claim Roma do not murder and kill is an urban myth probably perpetuated by the Roma themselves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/17/theobserver2
From the story, I surmise that the residents who disbursed the Roma and burnt their camp must have been North African.
From the story, I surmise that the residents who disbursed the Roma and burnt their camp must have been North African.
You are correct.
I believe they are known as the Travelers here in the US. Mostly scam artists.
true story..i always carry an empty wallet in my back pocket while travelling abroad, I got surounded by a pack of gypsy kids in Florence and they got my wallet and vanished, about a minute later a kid comes running out and throws my wallet at me shouting “bastardo” and takes off
The Roma in France are rag-tag, poor and pathetic. In Great Britain they have become masters of scamming the system and the welfare system and have become skilled at setting up encampments that are very hard to dislodge. They set them up in Gov’t green zones. Neutral parkland. The ones in Britain are motorized with trucks, campers, trailers etc
H/T Army Air Corps
The Gypsies, now known as “ les Roms” in PC land have been a plague on Europe for hundreds of years. Also known as “ traveling people” they are rootless, living kn caravans, setting up their camps, then moving on.
They plague the economies of European cities by not working, and being on the public dole. They train their children, often as young as three, to steal, and work in teams to distract unwitting victims. They are always under the age of arrest, and are caught and let go.
They are “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” They do not respect local laws, and are violent trouble makers.
I have no idea what religion they are. Having come from India originally, and dabbling in fortune telling and other forms if separating a man from his money, my guess would be pagan.
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Yes, a young girl/woman, 13 or so, tried to unzip my husband’s pack, right on the front side of his body. He grabbed her wrist and told her NO, and she got off the Metro. In Paris, that is.
The Gypsies will also drug their babies, toss them at tourists, and then, when you catch them and your hands are full, they’ll pick your pockets. Catching a baby is innate - tossing, not so much.
My mom was a Social Worker here in Los Angeles. The Gypsy families would come in when they were in town, activate their welfare cases, and collect. They were not poor, just knew how to work the system.
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