Looks like the teenagers are following the likes of London gangs now....sad times. Two incidents this week were related apparently?
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Looks like the teenagers are following the likes of London gangs now....sad times. Two incidents this week were related apparently?
Think it's been around a while, through work I hear about a lot of stabbings that don't ever really get reported on, a friend also used to work on the trauma ward and she also felt it was often under reported.
It's not going to be as bad as London etc but it is there.
I don't get it though, such a cowardly act.
I was told that groups of young "travellers" were wandering around the centre on Saturday causing problems and then groups of youth from Llanrumney and St Mellons thought they'd sort them out. There was both a "travellers" convention and funeral of a well-known gypsy which is why so many arrived in CardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
youth gangs and knife culture dates back as far as the late 1700, however most prevalent in the UK was late 1800.
To be fair if it's only been an issue for an hour or so I think we're okQuote:
Originally Posted by OurManFlint II
Oh, you are good! :hehe::cry::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
One group was from grangetown and riverside I thought, the other Rumney/mellons? I guess this sort of inter suburb rivalry has always gone on, it was rife in the 80’s particularly between the Docks and Fairwater. A guy I knew from Pentrebane said he and his mates stopped following us as it was too much hassle. No knives back then mind, no cowardice.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomcat
Nothing to do with the Travellers,local youths with ongoing beef.Rumney and grangetown.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomcat
Not saying travellers were involved, but I know of 3 pubs and 1 McDonalds that shut early last Sunday 5.00pm, because of unruly travelling people.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
They would not obey the rules, caused mayhem on St Mary Street
Think that was a separate event....police earning their dosh last weekend heyQuote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
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Originally Posted by goats
Wasn’t Birdies Lane a traditional Ely/Fairwater battleground?
groups of young travelllers were fighting anybody they could in and around St Davids 2, know one of the security who said it was horrificQuote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
Was in the Borough last Monday a couple of us from work having a few quite beers towards the back of the pub, two gypos came in and sat opposite us, could tell immediately they were trying to bully us a bit, pulled out a rolex watch wanted 10k for it 🤣
Told them we live in the Valleys and can buy a house for that price, they knew they were getting nowhere and said good point and fecked off.
But we all said after that they were looking for trouble and wondered if they were involved or family were involved in all that shite a few days ago top end of Queen Street.
Cowardly is a strange choice of words. It's violent and vicious. I'm not saying it's the opposite of cowardly, but I wouldn't fancy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
I work at both gypsy camps on a regular basis, they're sound, never had a problem. Adamsdown is more scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Its been emotional
I've never met a decent Gypo. Also, they're are cruel as fcuk to their animals.
'Gypo' knock it on the head, will you.Quote:
Originally Posted by B. Oddie
My grandfather was a traveller, 90% of them are arseholes
And Tremorfa, more good than bad on the site for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Was on Penarth front in June [I think]. Lovely Sunday afternoon. About 100 travellers and their horse-and-cart things. Long queue in the Chippy. 4 or 5 of them walked in, straight in front of about 20 people queuing patiently. The two young lads behind the counter were sh*tting themselves as they took their orders. Nobody dared say a thing, just looked away.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomcat
Yup, they can be a bit abrasive, but that's how they communicate. I've never had an issue at either of the camps.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
That is how they are,i did clip a mirror of one of their vans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
He got out and said £40 pound for a new mirror i told him fcuk off there is moss growing in the cracks.
He just smiled and said fair game and walked away.
:hehe: :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
yeah pikey is the preferred termQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
That's such a cutting remark.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
They're gypo scum, plain and simple. I got to know several when I lived in Splott and drank in The Bertram. They are probably nice to you because they can get something out of you with regard to your occupationQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
and so it goes on tonight in cardiff city centre
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-...23#source=push
They get **** all out of me, believe me! I have more problems in my job in Pentrebane and Llanedeyrn, especially in the flats and a lovely place called lavender grove. Good and bad everywhere, the traveller community have always been fine with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68
I know Lavender Grove. not the best place in this city.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
It defeats me how councils can build places like this and honestly believe everything will be fine. It invariably isn't.
There are 'Lavender Groves' everywhere and the people who build them never learn.
Is that in Pentrebane where the lovely leather bottle pub used to be?:hide:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Fair enough. But perhaps it's because they see you on a regular basis, you've become familiar to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I used to like a Sunday drink in the Rompney Castle, Rumney, on a Sunday afternoon. They could behave like asseholes at times - flicking peanuts at people who were just having a quiet pint on their own and generally just being loud and obnoxious.
Same with the ones who used to frequent the Locomotive,Broadway, on a Friday/Saturday evening. Customers would patiently put their names up on the board to wait their turn to play a game of pool, all except these travellers. They'd just rack the balls up without giving a toss who was supposed to be on next.
Loud, obnoxious bullies! Yeah, I get it that some are okay, but just too many of them are not.
Fair enough, although i've experienced that from people who aren't Travellers, when they've behaved in that way their existence, culture and way of life isn't called into question like it is for Travellers. I know this may sound like bullshit, but people should challenge them when they behave like that, just do it in a reasonable manner. They're not all 'hard men' and they do back down. Problem is that people are scared of them and some of them know this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Challenge them? Simply not worth the trouble. People are scared of them for a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
They do thrive on the old adage that people are scared of them, they are untraceable, beyond the law bla bla....from what I have seen they like to play up in places they feel comfortable to do so where they know they will get away with it etc...they often come unstuck when they play up in places they don’t usually frequent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five