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Last night was at yard on my own, drove past some travellers with dogs down the lane so rushed to yard, shut gate from inside and switched all the lights on...

Could then see their torches coming down the lane and across the back fields - there is a public footpath across the back field...

Some have come into the yard before when i've been there so i was a little worried, am i just a wimp?

I did manage to be brave enough to get Blue in and do a bit on him though of course i didn't achieve much as was too busy looking across the fields
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yes! lol! are you sure they wern't carol singers. we went last night and got some odd looks! but yes that would freak me too, would get the dog and a heavy object and hide behind the door!
 
I think you are being a bit paranoid, do you think all travellers are murderers and rapists ? Yes, there are plenty that are very rough and very light fingered, but I don't believe they go around attacking people or stealing en mass.
 
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I think you are being a bit paranoid, do you think all travellers are murderers and rapists ? Yes, there are plenty that are very rough and very light fingered, but I don't believe they go around attacking people or stealing en mass.

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agree very much
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Haha no i know!

They were not any travellers that i recognised though and i was on my own and therefore very outnumbered hence why i was worried!

Think they were actually out rabbiting with the dogs, but they don't ever seem to get many rabbits...
 
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I think you are being a bit paranoid, do you think all travellers are murderers and rapists ? Yes, there are plenty that are very rough and very light fingered, but I don't believe they go around attacking people or stealing en mass.

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I should have seen a comment like that coming! I think there are two very different types of traveller, the traditional gypsies who you see with horses & the modern traveller who usually comes complete with a 4x4 or pick up truck. I don't mind the traditional gypsey as usually they are pretty harmless & friendly, I am wary of the modern traveller as I have had bad personal experience with them.

I'm too close to the Stow Horse Fair site & see what happens up there around horse fair time which makes me cautious but doesn't mean all travellers are bad people. I also wouldn't be worried about violence myself but if I had any type of traveller parked up close to my stable yard I would stick a few extra padlocks out to make sure - better to be cautious than be sorry! I would however do exactly the same thing if there were any reports of strange people hanging around or thefts in the area - not just gypsies.
 
Id be terrified!
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I had the willies last night in my yard last night in the dark, there was nothing there! There are no lights and the smallest noise makes me jump!

Beware there have been lots of break-ins near me, and our hay stash keeps growing legs and wondering off too!
 
Really?
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To be completely honest ANYBODY walking across the fields in the dark scares me! Especially if i am on my own! Hence why i insist on having the horses in the front fields during the winter months...
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Have also jumped out my skin when somebody has walked past the yard gate down the lane in the dark and i hadn't seen them!
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I do seem to get the fear in the dark....
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Really?
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To be completely honest ANYBODY walking across the fields in the dark scares me! Especially if i am on my own! Hence why i insist on having the horses in the front fields during the winter months...
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Have also jumped out my skin when somebody has walked past the yard gate down the lane in the dark and i hadn't seen them!
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I do seem to get the fear in the dark....
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You have now used the word "Anybody" so why did you have to use the word "travellers" in your original post? Mairi.
PS, I tend to see people as harmless til proven otherwise.
 
Well, I see you in Kent, and depending on whereabouts yes, it might freak me out a lot. There are areas and yards in Kent that have constant problems with travellers. They are travellers by the way, and obviously the ones that come over the fields and steal stuff aren't the nice travellers.
 
One night about 3am, all alone in the house, I heard one of my stable door's being opened (the stables are just outside the house and my bedroom window was open).

I leapt out of bed, hauled on my dressing gown, wellies and went roaring outside shouting my head off. Whoever was there legged it and after I checked everything I went back inside. Then started to think....what the hell was I doing going out there?? On my own, weighing 8 stone and not very tall, nearest house quite a way away, nearest police station a good 20 mins away and I hadnt rung them anyway...... Then again I probably looked like a total mad woman and almost certainly scared the living daylights out of them! Never had anyone come back again (touches wood now!!). They probably drive the long way round to avoid my house in case the mad woman is on the prowl!!
 
Did they have dogs with them, they might of been doing a bit of rabbiting or something perhaps?
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I'd just keep your guard up and make sure there is good security on your yard, its not always who you see, it can be who they speak to, agree not all travellers are theives but every traveller knows one!
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I used travellers because thats who they were...

The only people who are likely to be out round fields and lanes in a group that time of night in the dark with torches and dogs are travellers, some we know and some we don't and these were some i didn't know!
 
[quote I tend to see people as harmless til proven otherwise.

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IMO, if my horse's safety was at risk, and i was alone at the yard in the dark, i'd tend to think the opposite, regardless of who it was- travellers or not!
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Might be me being overly distrustful, but as i think has been said above (sorry!) i'd much rather be safe than sorry.
Molly
 
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