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The 'what have some travellers somewhere done this time? thread

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    #812
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Now now we have to be mindful of their 'unique culture' and bend over backwards to facilitate it at all costs

    Exactly! Lets make them a bespoke set of laws while we're at it. Apparently our current laws hold no water for them.


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    #813
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    I'm sure they would find ways to break those too after a while lol


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    #814
    hawkelady
    Registered Users Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    I was in a circle K today when a car pulls up , 3 traveller teens pop in and start taking chocolate , ice cream and other snacks then just stroll back out and into the car and off they go .. I was next at the till and we were just looking at this go on , the lad behind the counter tells me that this happens about twice a week and he’s just instructed to take down the reg. He said the cops must do nothing cause it’s been going on for months now !! Vermin


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    #815
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    hawkelady wrote: »
    I was in a circle K today when a car pulls up , 3 traveller teens pop in and start taking chocolate , ice cream and other snacks then just stroll back out and into the car and off they go .. I was next at the till and we were just looking at this go on , the lad behind the counter tells me that this happens about twice a week and he’s just instructed to take down the reg. He said the cops must do nothing cause it’s been going on for months now !! Vermin


    Wonder if traveller theft insurance is now a thing for traders?


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    #816
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    How is this vile allowed to continue, nothing but open racist hatred of travellers,
    I know some kind caring traveling families imagine the hurt they feel reading these comments.
    Travelers contribute greatly to Irish society through sport music and business.
    The are committed to their families and their faith


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    #817
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,188 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    hawkelady wrote: »
    I was in a circle K today when a car pulls up , 3 traveller teens pop in and start taking chocolate , ice cream and other snacks then just stroll back out and into the car and off they go .. I was next at the till and we were just looking at this go on , the lad behind the counter tells me that this happens about twice a week and he’s just instructed to take down the reg. He said the cops must do nothing cause it’s been going on for months now !! Vermin


    The company should put the CCTV up on social media and see what response it gets.


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    #818
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Not being contrarian but needed work done to my house, brick repointing, chimney capping, guttering, etc, bloke came round to do the job, his origins only sank in after mulling over his accent, surname and connection to a large Midlands town, anyway, him and his colleagues were perfect gentlemen, didn't overcharge and did a sterling job. They can't all be the spawn of Satan.


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    #819
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    dd973 wrote: »
    Not being contrarian but needed work done to my house, brick repointing, chimney capping, guttering, etc, bloke came round to do the job, his origins only sank in after mulling over his accent, surname and connection to a large Midlands town, anyway, him and his colleagues were perfect gentlemen, didn't overcharge and did a sterling job. They can't all be the spawn of Satan.
    Your experience is the same interactions people have everyday with 99% of Travelers.
    For some reason people use the bad apple's or the 1% of Travelers to discredit all Travelers


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    #820
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    How is this vile allowed to continue, nothing but open racist hatred of travellers,
    I know some kind caring traveling families imagine the hurt they feel reading these comments.
    Travelers contribute greatly to Irish society through sport music and business.
    The are committed to their families and their faith

    I've spotted others accusing you of being a WUM on Boards.

    Add me to the list.


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    #821
    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,301 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Your experience is the same interactions people have everyday with 99% of Travelers.
    For some reason people use the bad apple's or the 1% of Travelers to discredit all Travelers

    Have you got a source for this 99% versus 1% nonsense?

    #notalltravellers


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    #822
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    fullstop wrote: »
    Have you got a source for this 99% versus 1% nonsense?

    #notalltravellers

    Yes personal experience and that of most of my family and friends


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    #823
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Yes personal experience and that of most of my family and friends

    Funny. I have personal experience and find it's the opposite.


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    #824
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Charles your stories are hilarious.... I spat out my tea....


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    #825
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Yes personal experience and that of most of my family and friends

    Right. So why are they so over-represented in prisons then? Is it that they are no good at committing crime and keep getting caught?


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    #826
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    pablo128 wrote: »
    Right. So why are they so over-represented in prisons then? Is it that they are no good at committing crime and keep getting caught?

    Same reason in America prisons are full of African Americans, systemic racism


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    #827
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Same reason in America prisons are full of African Americans, systemic racism

    Or they just commit more crime


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    #828
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Same reason in America prisons are full of African Americans, systemic racism

    But you can't lock someone up if they haven't committed a crime. So how does such a high percentage of travellers get caught committing crimes?

    After all it was you who claimed 99% are decent and its the 1% who drag them down.


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    #829
    Oxter
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭Oxter


    fullstop wrote: »
    Have you got a source for this 99% versus 1% nonsense?

    #notalltravellers

    Its closer to 1% vs 99%.


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    #830
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Or they just commit more crime

    Black people commit more crimes that white people, definition of stereotypical racism


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    #831
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Same reason in America prisons are full of African Americans, systemic racism

    Complete and utter bollocks man. How can you be so ignorant to absolute facts.


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    #832
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Complete and utter bollocks man. How can you be so ignorant to absolute facts.

    Which facts?
    Look all over the world, indigenous and marginalized people are over represented in prisons.


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    #833
    Oxter
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭Oxter


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Which facts?
    Look all over the world, indigenous and marginalized people are over represented in prisons.


    Looking at the Anglo bank trials, white collar workers are under represented in prisons.


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    #834
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Which facts?
    Look all over the world, indigenous and marginalized people are over represented in prisons.

    If you don't commit a crime you don't get locked up. These people are criminals. Anyone who has been caught enough times to warrant a prison sentence is a criminal.


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    #835
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    pablo128 wrote: »
    If you don't commit a crime you don't get locked up. These people are criminals. Anyone who has been caught enough times to warrant a prison sentence is a criminal.

    Or targeted systemic police profiling


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    #836
    Oxter
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭Oxter


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Or targeted systemic police profiling


    Which is necessary to stop the marauding traveller gangs terrorising the countryside.


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    #837
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Same reason in America prisons are full of African Americans, systemic racism

    You might be interested in following broadcaster pat o mahony on twitter, he regularly accuses the guards of racial profiling and how this explains the high incarceration rate amongst the traveller community


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    #838
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    You might be interested in following broadcaster pat o mahony on twitter, he regularly accuses the guards of racial profiling and how this explains the high incarceration rate amongst the traveller community

    Happens all over the work , marginalised ethnic minorities forced into poverty


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    #839
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Happens all over the work , marginalised ethnic minorities forced into poverty

    O mahony seems convinced that this is behind the high imprisonment rates

    If you can't trust a liberal from the world of broadcasting, who can you trust


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    #840
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    You might be interested in following broadcaster pat o mahony on twitter, he regularly accuses the guards of racial profiling and how this explains the high incarceration rate amongst the traveller community

    So should the guards not bother chasing down these criminals because it would upset Mr O Mahony


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    #841
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    O mahony seems convinced that this is behind the high imprisonment rates

    If you can't trust a liberal from the world of broadcasting, who can you trust

    Well I'd be inclined to believe that.
    How else when we see it replicated with indigenous people all over the world


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