[Elliott Jackalope]

What are "Travellers"?

[Paul Atreides]

Gypsies. They must be like that lowlife woman who was beating her kid senseless in the SUV a few months ago.

[David Hunter]

"Traveller" is a politically correct term for a gypsy, although it applies more broadly to include new age travellers too.

[wideawake]

Travellers or Pikeys are groups of bums who go from place to place in groups stealing things and scamming people out of money. They're called Irish Travelers in the US and Tinkers in Ireland.

One of them was caught on tape last year savagely beating her child in a parking lot.

They speak their own slang, are generally related to one another and are kind of like white gypsies. Brad Pitt played one in the movie Snatch and Bill Paxton and Mark Wahlberg starred in a movie about the group called Traveller.

They're the scum of the earth.

[Murtyo]

I think these are Gypsies. Travellers, what the Brits sometimes call Pikies usually have Irish sounding names, these folks appear to have more exotic names!

[redheadtoo]

What are "Travellers"?

They are not gypsies, nor are they a politically correct name for gypsies. They are a seperate group. The Travelers are decended from British immigrants. They are divided into three main groups the Irish Travelers, the Scotish Travelers, and the English Travelers.

Like the gypsies they move about the country committing scams for money. Their favorite trick is home repair scams. They claim you need an expensive repair then don't do the work or do some slipshod work with inferior materials (i.e. they say they are going to repave your drive way and then just pour old motor oil all over it.)Of course they disappear quickly with your money.