Gipsies. What do you know about them.

Romas/Romani are completely different than Pikeys/Travelers ...but there are good and bad in each group, making the two groups somewhat close in dealings with people. They good ones do drive around jobs, kind of like the Amish, they'll do anything, and do it well. The bad ones do the same thing, but you don't know until its too late that they did a crap job and then cleaned out your tool shed or garage at the same time or the next night after casing it

I don't know about in the US but in the UK/Eire anytime a dog goes missing (usually working dog types, but sometimes other "regular" breeds as well), the owner/advert poster always says "Travelers were seen in the area prior to theft", But then we don't have the dog thief problems that the UK does. One of the dogs my husband brought over with him was a barking snapping witch if she didn't know you and he wasn't around, and he encouraged it because of how bad the dog thieving was in his area.

an old friend is from a Roma family that is high up in the Roma heirarchy in the UK, and if you ever need anything done or a dog found, his dad is the man to go see. Most Romas and Travelers also tend to have an incredible amount of money on hand at all times ... the bets I've heard placed on horses and dogs would boggle the mind. I am talking an average bet can be 10k pounds on a 2 dog 3 hare run, 30k pounds on a horse race, and those are just done out on a field or road in the middle of nowhere. Cash on the barrel, right there and then, no sweat, I've been at a few. Not that the dogs are better than others out there, just they can put the money where their glib mouths are

watch the movie Snatch and you will see a pretty good rendition of the typical hard dealing, bareknuckle fighting, drinking Irish Travelers ... Brad Pitt is the main man, looking fit and pretty nice You probably have to watch it on DVD with Subtitles unless you can understand pikey, which not many can

When I lived in AZ we worked for the Gypsies. Two different families that owned trailer parks. They were actually very good to us, but you do have to watch your "dealings" with them. I don't know about now but in those days they would turn back the odometer before selling there trucks.

There is a hilarious Brad Pitt movie about gypsies/Pikeys. It's called Snatch. It's not for suitable for the young'uns, but is worth watching anyway. It's hard to tell much difference between the thievin' Pikeys and everyone else in the film, which may be the real lesson in the long run.

Still, I'd keep an eye on things if you've had people coming round asking questions.

Here is an interesting tidbit that I heard on our local Christian radio station a while back. They were interviewing a gypsy woman who had been born again, and the question was brought up about their reputation for stealing. She passed on the story that was told to her as a child, goes something like this.

While Christ was on the cross, the Roman soldiers had some extra nails laying there, and were talking about pounding them into his body to further torture Him. A gypsy man was nearby and overheard the soldiers talking, so he stole the nails so that the soldiers couldn't do them. God was so greatful that he told the gypsy that from that point on the gypsies could steal whatever they needed.

I was in Deerborn,Michigan one time.Stopped and asked a girl for directions.She takes me to her Mom.Seems they were Gypsies.Well before it was all said and done I was out $20 and the Woman still put a curse on me And I still didn't get directions.

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I noticed a new pickup truck with SC plates parked at a local country store last summer. There was a lot of used motor oil in the back. The inside of the bed was really slopped up. Inside the store I saw a man who wasn't from around here. I asked him if he was a contractor. He said he did driveway sealing. I wished him luck. A few minutes later I called the sheriff and gave him the license number.

I haven't heard about them around here for quite a while, but they used to blow into town every summer and pillage the JCPenney where my aunt worked.