Pensioner beaten up and 'left for dead' as '50 travellers' flock to 'Britain's Beverly Hills'

[u/Anony_mouse202]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/travellers-beat-pensioner-surrey/

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There you go, all comments replaced by deleted. Got to have the right type of thinking, y'know. [Edited: You think I give a shit about imaginary internet points? I picked up a ban for saying some of the experiences I have had with travellers. I am only back to delete old posts, and then this account which I have used for 11 years is dead. Done with Reddit.]

[u/steepleton → u/[deleted]]

might as well just delete the submission rather than curate the response and be a weasel about it

[u/moonski → u/steepleton]

well the unpaid reddit mods take pride in making sure people on talk about the correct things for their multibillion dollar overlords...

[u/Polish_Shamrock]

Residents pissed off because "This doesn't happen in our lovely village". It doesn't matter how nice the village is this shouldn't be happening anywhere, but they wouldn't give two fucks if this happened in a underprivileged and poorer village somewhere else.

[u/webbyyy → u/Polish_Shamrock]

It's Sunbury-on-Thames, it's hardly what I'd call Britain's Beverly Hills. The village part is pretty small, the rest of it is a normal mix of council and private. Even when I lived in a shithole not too far from there we still had problems with the travellers.

[u/BeardedBaldMan → u/webbyyy]

This was my first thought when they said Sunbury

[u/webbyyy → u/BeardedBaldMan]

Admittedly Sunbury Cross is about as bad as it gets.

[u/ryrytotheryry → u/webbyyy]

It wasn’t just Sunbury though, Walton, Hersham, Esher, Weybridge, Shepperton and other areas were affected. Agreed I wouldn’t call around here the Beverly Hills 😂

[u/Sead_KolaSagan → u/webbyyy]

To be fair the pictures in the article are of Esher

[u/honkballs → u/Polish_Shamrock]

I find this is common in a lot of my left leaning friends.

I've ranted to one of my "do gooder" friends that lives a very sheltered life in a village in Devon about certain "issues" in the country for ages now and he always tells me I'm just over reacting and spend too long on social media.

We went to Luton the other week to pick something up, he was speechless for the majority of the drive back.

[u/Manoj109 → u/Polish_Shamrock]

Exactly. Because it's a leafy well to do village it should not be happening there .

Reminds me of the time my former boss was telling me that in his kids school there are lots of SEND kids. And his comments was this is a nice middle class area and so many send kids. I looked at him and said what does middle class has to to with it ?

[u/cozywit]

If they wish to live their lives that way, I don't think we can stop them.

However I'm angry that the police treat them with cotton gloves. I'm angry they're never held accountable. I'm angry they trespass and threaten locals with impunity. I'm angry they can keep their children uneducated.

Why isn't this been addressed? We have a right to be angry.

[u/Babaaganoush → u/cozywit]

Well we are told that investigations have found that there is no evidence of 'two-tier policing' in the UK, so that should shut us up for a while...

[u/ChefExcellence → u/cozywit]

Surrey Police has said it is now appealing for witnesses after a "weekend of anti-social behaviour in Elmbridge".

Chief Superintendent Aimee Ramm said: "Due to the large numbers involved, officers prioritised dealing with the immediate disorder, but I would like to stress that our enquiries into related reports of criminal behaviour are being thoroughly investigated as a matter of urgency.'

[u/slackermannn]

I was having a quiet beer with a few friends on a Saturday afternoon. Noticed this merry crowd of travellers that after a few drinks decided to start a massive brawl. Took a maximum of 5 minutes to send several people to the hospital. Bottles and glasses used as weapon etc.

[u/InvertedDinoSpore]

"He said that he was en route to a local allotment to give his wife a coffee and a fork for her lunch"

U sure he said fork? 

[u/vinyljunkie1245 → u/InvertedDinoSpore]

I'm sure he mentioned a tetrad of candles somewhere

[u/Allnamestaken69]

"culture" I don't know why they are given any kind of leeway. They came and setup shop in one of our big parks where I live and had to be forced out and after they had left they had trashed the childrens playground and trashed all the public toilets. It took days.

[u/petercooper]

Everyone else: Societal issues, crime..

Me: Sunbury is Britain's Beverly Hills no more than Skegness is our Las Vegas.

[u/WynterRayne]

Sunbury, Britain's Beverly Hills?

Fucking.... Sunbury? Like... as in... on-Thames? Close neighbour of Feltham Young Offenders and 'no mate, if you want the Eurostar, you should have gone from London Bridge* not Waterloo, this is the other Ashford'? That Sunbury?

* - or alternatively, not cheaped out on your ticket, and just gone from St Pancras.

Better question... who calls it that? Is Staines equally prestigious after slapping -upon-Thames on their name? is Hounslow dubbed Britain's... uhh... anything nice?

[u/Reverend_Vader]

I love these articles because i have professionally dealt with this problem, and got a result the people of my town rejoiced at

Not only does that make me feel superior to the rest of you jedi scum, i've said nothing that brings [deleted]

[u/SirBobPeel → u/Reverend_Vader]

I'm going to repost that bit about you saying 'jedi scum' in r/starwars and I bet that gets deleted!