Albion fans collide with Reading travellers.

[Chief Wiggum]

Just been reading how the riot police turned up to a peaceful rave in South London. Maybe the Crown Plaza should have said the travellers were New Age travellers. That would have spurred the plod into action. Either that or said they were black? Both would have got a better response.

Some local residents would appear to disagree with you on that one http://www.thebattleforwaterloo.org/nightmare-on-whitgift-street/

 

[Dick Head]

Shouldn't this thread be moved to The Other Stuff / Archive?

 

[tinycowboy]

Bloke's a ****, as you say. I use Prem Inns about 40 nights a year, and have never once 'exercised the guarantee'. To my mind you can only legitimately do so, in the morning, if you've given the staff the opportunity to rectify whatever the issue is at the time? In your ****'s instance, did he call down to reception at 2am and complain that his room was too hot?

(I never would because having someone come round to sort, or moving room at 2am would wreck my night's sleep way more than the duvet being too thick!).

Premier Inns are easily as good as hotels twice the price that do not regard themselves as "budget". IMO. Travel Lodge is a different kettle of fish though - my in-laws got a nasty rash from the one in Brighton.....

 

[Megazone]

Shouldn't this thread be moved to The Other Stuff / Archive?

Agreed.

This is getting boring and predictable.

 

[SAC]

Shouldn't this thread be moved to The Other Stuff / Archive?

Yes. Albion fans collide with Reading travellers was a fairly misleading thread title too, I was expecting to read about a mass brawl in the Reading 'Spoons.

 

[melias shoes]

Its because the old bill sh*t themselves with pikeys, if that was football fans doing that can you imagine what they'd have done

Aint that the truth.

 

[melias shoes]

Bodie and Doyle would have kicked their arse the coppers nowadays are pussies that don't want the paper work.

It's not just the paper work they don't want. they pussy foot around them for fear of being called racist.

 

[melias shoes]

Would that be the peaceful rave that was illegal, unlicensed and where the attendees had petrol bombs?

That's the one.

 

[sir albion]

Have been to 51 different away grounds following the Albion but this trip was the weirdest of all. Four of us decided to make a weekend of it, with us men going to the football and the wives going shopping in the Oracle. We booked the 4* Crowne Plaza by the Thames for Friday and Saturday nights.
The trip started with our tickets not turning up in the post which meant picking them up at the stadium before the match.
Anyway, we arrived at the hotel and decided to eat there on Friday evening. We ordered the food and some nice wine and settled down for an enjoyable night. First course came and went, very enjoyable. Dessert had just arrived and we thought "what the hell is going on?"
Little kids began to charge around the restaurant climbing over low walls and making one hell of a racket. Then older kids came into the restaurant with takeaways and promptly started requisitioning plates and cutlery from behind the counters. The waiters were completely gobsmacked and sent all the kids packing.
We then noticed that the bar, which we could see, had filled up with the roughest looking people (beyond chav) who had taken over the whole bar.
The decibels rose and the kids were running around more manic. It ruined our meal and I strode off to speak to the manager. It appeared that 5 travellers had booked rooms in the hotel (unknown to the staff) and a lot more in the Premier Inn down the road. That had no bar so they all arranged to meet in our hotel.
Eventually there were about sixty of them in the bar and some of the younger blokes starting fighting in the bar which also spilled into the entrance. The manager was horrified as he could see his core guests were getting angry. Eventually he gave his non traveller guests the key to the executive bar, with free drinks, and called the police. Three cop cars turned up followed by another two. They were useless. After gently talking to the travellers they shook hands with the packs leaders and left. Of course, this meant they carried on as usual.
Some of the guests in the executive lounge got nervous and checked out to another hotel.
The police were called again. We decided to go to bed but to get into the lift or door to stairs you needed your room key. As we opened the door about 5 teenage travellers tried to pass through with us. We tried to stop them until the manager and cops came to our aid but 2 got through and ran up the stairs. The copper came through and we said to him "If the police had clamped down on the first visit these problems wouldn't have re- occurred". Of course, the copper thought we were wrong to complain and that a few people running shouting through hotel corridors was nothing to moan about.
The 5 who had booked rooms were trying to get others without rooms to doss down with them, free of charge.
We went to bed but at 3am a group of their youngsters, who had been clubbing, turned up demanding to be let in. Fights broke out, again, and the police were called again. At 5am those travellers who managed to get in the rooms were running up and down the corridors banging doors, waking all the guests. The whole lot of them, including those in the Premier Inn, were off to fly to Ireland for a funeral.

By the end of the night, none had been arrested, but the hotel was out of pocket as they had given all the legit guests free drinks and coffee and when we checked out this morning took the costs of our desserts off the bill.
Why are they allowed to get away with anti social behaviour for which the rest of us would be arrested.

They was probably Albion fans going by how scruffy many of our fans were at the match....Third world clothing is a compliment.
You got unlucky as that's a great hotel

 

[melias shoes]

They was probably Albion fans going by how scruffy many of our fans were at the match....Third world clothing is a compliment.
You got unlucky as that's a great hotel

I was turned out in my finest Primark clobber i tell you!

 

[dadams2k11]

I can hear cogs in Ernest's head working overtime on a future thread.

 

[sir albion]

I was turned out in my finest Primark clobber i tell you!

I applaud you
I just don't get how people can walk around looking like they do...I have seen homeless people who look smarter.

Facking embarrassment many of our supporters

 

[Hastings gull]

Unsurprising that the OB did absolutely nothing. When a bunch of "travellers" (not sure if I can say gippos) invaded Victoria Park last summer I asked if we could have a couple of PCSOs around to:-

1) Act as a deterrent so they were less inclined to commit crime and

2) Reassure local residents because of 1) above

Police refused because they didn't want to "inflame the situation"! No. Honestly. The rights of the workshy, tax-dodging "travellers" (not sure if I can say pikeys) put before the rights of working tax-paying residents.

And even the Council had to carry out a "welfare assessment" ie make sure they had everything they needed and were nicely tucked up every night before they would move them on.

And that's the sorry state of our country today.

This does not surprise me in the slightest.
When I returned from service in Germany to the UK and had to look for a GP, I was turned away from several locally, as they were apparently "full". I had to write to Lewes and they allocated me a practice at the other end of town. This was not a big deal and I thought nothing more of it. A few years later, I attended a meeting about the likely static venues that could be offered to travellers in Hastings. A rep.from the local Council got up and said that a huge advantage of such a site is that when they arrive, someone from the Council could meet them and direct them to the nearest surgery and school.
I have no objection to any human being treated for illness, and agree their children's welfare and education are paramount, but inevitably one reflects on the unfairness of the situation, made that shade worse by the suspicion that whilst I had paid into the pot for 35 years, the travellers had contributed, shall we say, considerably less.

 

[seagurn]

Some poeple can do as they likey...but the good majority like yourself put up with it and get little or no recognition at all for being decent but the tide is turning and a tipping point will be reached and god help the ********s of this world ... well done for keeping your cool .

 

[carlzeiss]

From todays Argus :-

A CLEAN-UP and the theft of two lawnmowers has left a bill of more than £35,000.

Two mowers worth £33,000 belonging to Brighton and City Council were reported stolen from a Cityparks depot.

The thefts were reported to Sussex Police after an unauthorised encampment of traveller vehicles left the site at the end of last month.

The mowers are covered on insurance - but the total clear-up and repair bill also included more than £2,500 to replace bollards and padlocks as well as the cost of clearing up human waste from the site.

More than a dozen vehicles broke through protective barriers to get on to the site off the A27 at Hove on October 13 and stayed for more than a week while the council pursued legal action to evict them.

Health and safety risks were raised over the presence of children and adults walking close to the entrance for the Cityparks depot meaning council workers were not able to use the site for several days.

Complaints were also made to councillors that children had scaled a high fence to nearby stables for up to 30 horses and used it as a toilet facility.

Human faeces was also found in wood chip piles and sand at the depot which cost more than £500 to clean up.


Dawn Barnett, Conservative councillor for Hangleton and Knoll, said: “I have no idea how they have got those lawn mowers out of there.

“The costs of this clear-up will again have to come out of the parks department budget and it’s just not fair.”

A Brighton and Hove City Council spokesman said: “Two lawn mowers were stolen from our depot at Hangleton Bottom in mid-October, around the time of the unauthorised traveller encampment there.

“The total replacement value of the mowers is around £33,000.

“Police have been informed and the matter is currently the subject of an insurance claim.

“Some damage to the Hangleton Bottom site occurred during the same period.

“Replacing two bollards cost us £1,920.

“New padlocks and keys cost us around £300, and there were further environmental clear-up costs of just