Calling Gypsies 'Pikey's' is a bit rough. That's like saying that everyone from Liverpool is a scouser with O-levels in fraud, benefit claims and dealing in dodgy goods.
Pikey's are the dross of mankind that no matter how hard you try to befriend them and develop trust in them, they will always revert to stealing, begging or even demanding money via threats.
They are the ones that seek a job like pruning your trees for £50 and then butcher the tree and demand [the agreed] £500.
My friend had them make camp next to his transport yard. He ran a water hose for them, gave them some scrap and even turned one of his yard floodlights around to light up there camp. They were there three months. When they left they broke into his yard and stole 1,200 gallons of diesel.
My 80 year old neighbor got bullied into having his yard tarmacked by pikey's. I turned up and found they were slapping down old tarmac that had been dumped because it had gone cold. They were mixing some diesel in to make it plyable. I ran them off by calling the police.got a few death threats as they drove off.
