Friday Ephemera (817)

You know you’re in a shit neighborhood when the restaurants have metal detectors.

And when even the people complaining about the metal detectors can’t stop saying motherfucker.

[ Tries to think of more household appliances to recommend. ]

Artificial feet.

That’s cool.

[Goes looking for hacksaw]

I’m just going to leave this here. Possibly as a warning. A cautionary tale.

That thing that never happens just got worse.

A REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDER, YOU SAY?

Imagine my surprise. I may need to sit down for a minute.

What’s with this “travellers” thing? 

We’ve touched on the subject of ‘travellers’ previously, more than once:

If your chosen lifestyle is rooted in parasitism and a belief that, having turned someone’s field or whatever into a litter-strewn biohazard, you can just move on and leave some other sucker to deal with it, then other antisocial tendencies are hardly surprising.

And the more that such behaviour is indulged and excused by councils, police, and leftist pundits, in the name of some supposed group victimhood, the more likely it is that those antisocial behaviours will be emboldened.

Contrary to a number of council websites, these are not wandering minstrels.

I know of several people for whom the arrival of ‘travellers’ was followed almost immediately by the mysterious disappearance of unguarded items, including a business owner who was in effect told that an offering should be made, to prevent anything more valuable going missing during the night.

Far from being put-upon and “marginalised,” the demographic in question seems all too confident, as if accustomed to being exempt from normal consequences.

It isn’t exactly difficult to find more vivid accounts.

There are of course ‘travellers’ who use council-designated sites and who may be a minimal inconvenience to nearby residents. Some may even pay council tax, at least in theory.

But it’s almost funny how local councils will fall over themselves to praise the “cultural traditions” of the ‘travellers’ while actively minimising acts of trespass, theft, and antisocial behaviour – “Crimes are committed by individuals not communities,” said one disingenuous council website – and while adopting a scolding tone towards any residents who don’t regard the arrival of such people as a joyous thing.

Julia has an extensive catalogue of ‘traveller’ criminality and antisocial behaviour.

Oh, and we mustn’t forget this encounter.