Saturday - November 05, 2011

no more squatter/gypsy/traveler stories … except for this.

For a few years now I have shared with some great frustration, the many stories about squatters, travellers and gypsies.  They all do basically the same thing and all pretty much cause havoc and great expense to innocent property owners.

It isn’t that the problem has gone away in the short time I was gone.  Trust me. It hasn’t.  But to be honest, I am bone tired of the story and I bet you are too. 

Damn if it isn’t reported so often (cos it happens so often) that you’d get the impression nothing else happens here except that subject.  So in the future, I am going to ignore (or will do my best to ignore) any more articles on that subject. 

I can report however that Parliament has met to discuss legislation to outlaw squatting.  I’m not clear on the traveller/gypsy thing though.  Whatever, I have discovered I’m brilliant because what I’ve been ranting about seems to have been said publicly by some politician who has said, that folks do things like squatting and taking property simply because they have faith that they will get away with it. Which is what I’ve been saying for so long.  So I guess maybe now I’m a rocket scientist er sompthin.  Jeesh.  Wouldn’t you think that was self evident?  Why has it taken these folks so damn long to discuss the topic in govt.? 

Anyway, I think the law will change but I don’t yet know when it will take effect.
Why not now?  What’s wrong with now?  Or first thing Monday morning. Why wait?
But I guess better late then not at all.

Posted by peiper     on 11/05/2011 at 12:32 PM   
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