Maybe they come from here......?
Also, where we are now, a similar thing happened - house left derelict - but instead of squatters moving in, the owner got a seemingly permanent group of live-in builders...from the South of France.

One night, we smelt gas. It got realy strong, and seemed to be coming from outside, so we went to investigate. Out in the garden, we looked over to next door and could hear a gentle hissing sound. We called someone in asap and then all broke in (very carefully) to next door. The house was being pumped full of gas because one of the builders had cut the mains pipe wide open, and had just left it. In rural France they didn't usually have piped gas, it came from canisters so he'd probably reckoned it would just run out at some point! If anything had sparked, the amount of gas present would really have blown up half the street...we didn't sleep much that night.

Our neighbors now are quite nice, even though the eldest on one side is now doing porridge for transporting illegal immigrants in his truck ("It's ironic" says his mum "'cos he hates immigrants, he's practically a member of the BNP!") and the third son is now on the streets and has an ASBO

I feel so normal!
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Sun 28 Aug 2005, 9:33, Reply)