Town mayor tries Country and Western to make gypsies say: Oh no, not that, anything but that!

Belgian town tries out music to drive out gipsies – Daily Telegraph 17 July 2014

T own mayor tries Country and Western to make gypsies say: Oh no, not that, anything but that!

No not really C&W. He slipped up on the genre. Elementary mistake.

There’s a serious problem in France, Belgium and Italy around the issue of gypsy camps. So not funny really.

Fuller report in Italian here: Here’s the Itinerant Bancomat – Il Messaggero, 17 July 2014. This report contains two Italian expressions I especially like, both in the penultimate para – ‘storcere il naso’ is to turn up the nose, but sounds much more expressive, and ‘twittato’ is the past perfect of the verb ‘twittare’, guess what: to twitter (or tweet, if you prefer).

The gypsies were eventually moved on to somewhere else, no one knows where, but it's really just pushing the problem around.