whats going on with this country?

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Jabba

Unless they genuinely believe that they are paying rent to genuine landlord and have been scammed.

That was the impression I got from the comments they made at the bottom of that article. Seemed to genuinely believe they were entitled to be living their and had paid money to somebody to do so...

More in the Mail today. Just reading between the lines now...... :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-evicted.html

[yorkie_chris]

"Hows about you pay us £2000 and we'll make sure your kids don't accidentally catch fire" seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Then again I've no sympathy for squatters, it's just shoplifting writ large. And this is extortion. Especially gypsies, there's one turd floating in the gene pool that could do with a dose of disinfectant.

Funny actually, my Dads business had an infestation of pikeys on the car park once and the head scrote said to my Dad "pay us £600 and we'll go". They're scum who understand nothing but violence, since they ignored the legal "gerrof my land" papers served on them. Scum.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Jabba

Unless they genuinely believe that they are paying rent to genuine landlord and have been scammed.

Would you vacate a property for which rent had been paid just because a copper knocked on your door asking a few questions? Nah, you'd stay and make sure the facts were correct first, as would I.

Anything more in the Mail today?

Depends entirely on what was said to them, if a copper came round and said "sorry but your in someone elses house here's the proof you've been duped, who would have thought that random bloke in mcdonalds who didn't want to do business anywhere else but mcdonalds was fradulent? Anyway find somewhere before you're evicted."
Then the only real option is to find somewhere else.

Was just reading through the new article in the mail, thinking; definitely doesn't add up with this 'black man in mcdonald's', why on earth would they delete their landlord's number?!

then saw the concluding paragraph

Originally Posted by dailyfail

But what of the elusive Mr Winset and his tenancy agreement?

A Romanian official working in the Court Service told me: 'You can guarantee he doesn't exist. These so-called agreements are becoming quite common - squatters can flash them at anyone who asks and claim they have a legal contract.'
Last night the family turned down a council offer to have their 'housing needs' assessed - and the women left carrying blankets and possessions. Luminita made a one-finger gesture to photographers and told our interpreter they were 'going to stay with relatives'.
The Mosedales, both 45, said they were 'greatly relieved' and bore the families no ill feeling. But Mrs Mosedale added: 'We have been quite shocked by it all, and by how squatting laws make it so difficult for house owners to do anything about it. I just hope someone takes notice of what has happened and the law changes in future.'

[Spiderman]

i was all in favour of giving the romanians the benefit of the doubt on this one abot having been duped into paying for what they thought was a legit rental.

The fact they moved couple of hundred yards down the road so quickly, into a place with an estate agents board outside tho makes me worried that they are simply "professional" squatters who know the loopholes and understand they can stay pretty much anywhere rent and bills free until papers are served and then move on and do it somewhere else. Again and again and again.

[yorkie_chris]

The word "gypsy" in the article strongly suggests that

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

"Hows about you pay us £2000 and we'll make sure your kids don't accidentally catch fire" seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Then again I've no sympathy for squatters, it's just shoplifting writ large. And this is extortion. Especially gypsies, there's one turd floating in the gene pool that could do with a dose of disinfectant.

Funny actually, my Dads business had an infestation of pikeys on the car park once and the head scrote said to my Dad "pay us £600 and we'll go". They're scum who understand nothing but violence, since they ignored the legal "gerrof my land" papers served on them. Scum.

Everytime they break into the site where they are not allowed to stay, theres a spree of thefts from houses and business's. Dad's shop was nearly broken into. Everytime they stay at the site, extra locks and everything.
I can't disagree YC, scum.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

The word "gypsy" in the article strongly suggests that

Same word used round here for the Irish "travelling" community, many of who haven't moved off their Council-provided site in years (other than to nick metal from the local steelworks so conveniently localed adjacent to their site).

They are not gypsies and neither are these people.

[yorkie_chris]

Exactly, we had an infestation on a covered over landfill for a couple of weeks. 3 houses broken into on our road (a mile away from the site of the infection).

Should be legal to mortar the buggers if they set up within 81mm range of your house...

this is why your not allowed near things that go bang, unless you wish to blow up your own house .81mm lmao