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Zakko wrote:
How often have you come across "pikeys" looking for scrap? Probably
once and maybe twice. That's hardly enough evidence to make a
racist-like slur here in public.

Oh c'mon. 'Pikey' these days is a description of a type of person rather
than a race or way of life, like travelling. Nor can you identify a
'pikey' by their god given appearance or anything else other than
behaviour.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On Sun, 04 May 2008 09:35:27 +0100, Zakko wrote:

On Sat 03 May 2008 13:14:40, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when
the drugs began to take hold. I remember Huge
saying something like:

I know criminals are stupid, but do you really think some pikey is
going to *syphon* heating oil out of a tank?


Of course not. They turn up in a Transit with a heating oil tank
in the back of it. A 2" petrol-powered pump, and Bob's yer
dodgily-moustachioed brother's auntie.

There's a real spate of heating oil thefts in rural areas and has
been for the past couple of years.

What proof is there to support your claim about a "real spate of
heating oil thefts in rural areas"?

Is it just your supposition based on overreaction to a couple of
news reports? Or are there facts to back up that claim?

"Heating oil thieves hit rural communities"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/27/2

"Heating oil thefts spark police warning"
http://www.dissexpress.co.uk/news/He...ice.3694026.jp

"Thieves in Londonderry use sophisticated equipment, including
tankers, to steal heating oil."
http://www.publicpolitics.net/module...le&sid= 91782

"Heating oil thefts - alert issued"
http://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk...ert.3994623.jp

"Warning after spate of oil thefts"
http://tinyurl.com/5dpx9s

"Thieves raid home heating fuel tanks to cash in on oil crisis" [May
2, 2008]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3864712.ece

and on...

....and on...

.... and on!

It is a VERY serious problem!

MM

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Zakko saying
something like:

How often have you come across "pikeys" looking for scrap? Probably
once and maybe twice. That's hardly enough evidence to make a
racist-like slur here in public.

Have a look at my headers. Assuming you know how to, that is.
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Dave