17-08-2019, 02:14 PM
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Re: Police officer killed
Originally Posted by Twink55
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Tara the word originates from......mid 19th century: from an old sense of pike, ‘a road on which a toll is collected’.
These are places where many travelers parked their caravans, and that is why travelers are called Pikeys.
In the urban dictionary it only became a bad term because it related to travelers behaviour.....
pikey
From the English "turnpike", the place where itinerent travellers and thieves would camp near a settlement.
Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose main sources of income are as follows:
Stealing cars, flogging roses in pubs for "childrens' charities", nicking lead off roofs, burgling garden sheds, blagging entry to old peoples house to rob them, doing dodgy tarmac jobs ("we've got some black stuff left over from a job up the road"), sometimes with mint imperials used as a substitute for white chippings, or, reportedly, using snow to lay slabs on when the sand ran out, stealing your bollocks if they weren't in a bag and anything else that's not nailed down and anything that is nailed down but will fit in the back of an untaxed Transit when nobody's looking.
Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch), a penchant for harecoursing, ketamine, lighter fuel, fighting in pubs and shopping at Lidl.
Best avoided.
17-08-2019, 04:02 PM
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Re: Police officer killed
In answer to the question why was only one policeman sent out.It transpires there were two sent to a burglary . The deceased officer went to question a getaway van and possibility tried to take the keys from this van and was dragged hundreds of yards along the road .
The other policeman who had remained in the car could only follow .
The poor man eventually fell and the van sped off .
There is much more to the incident I expect but what we know is shocking enough .
17-08-2019, 04:49 PM
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Re: Police officer killed
Originally Posted by Muddy
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In answer to the question why was only one policeman sent out.It transpires there were two sent to a burglary . The deceased officer went to question a getaway van and possibility tried to take the keys from this van and was dragged hundreds of yards along the road .
The other policeman who had remained in the car could only follow .
The poor man eventually fell and the van sped off .
There is much more to the incident I expect but what we know is shocking enough .
17-08-2019, 04:57 PM
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Re: Police officer killed
Originally Posted by Muddy
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In answer to the question why was only one policeman sent out.It transpires there were two sent to a burglary . The deceased officer went to question a getaway van and possibility tried to take the keys from this van and was dragged hundreds of yards along the road .
The other policeman who had remained in the car could only follow .
The poor man eventually fell and the van sped off .
There is much more to the incident I expect but what we know is shocking enough .
Ah, thanks for that Muddy.
I hadn't heard any of that.
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