My brother married a Welch and when you get their trust they're fine people on the whole.
My Daughter's boyfriend, (S) works for a company that builds and fits the backs to commercial vehicles. He deals with a lot of travellers and gets on well with them. One day he took a call from this bloke complaining that the back of his truck was all distorted, and demanding a hefty refund.
S asks the guy what he'd been using his truck for and the man says 'tarmacing.'
S says he's sorry but the type of truck you bought is no good for tarmacing - too heavy and too much heat etc. He explains that if he'd ordered a tarmacing truck they would have used 5mm steel instead of 3mm and it would have been a different design etc.
After a bit of heated toing and froing the guy says 'ok, if you don't get me a refund I'll be down there tomorrow and it'll be me and you, shirts off on the car park.' and ends the call. The girls in the office are worried and persuade S not to meet him so instead he phones one of his regular customers - another traveller - and explains the situation to him.
Traveller. 'What's his name?'
S. tells him the bloke's name.
T. 'never, f***in heard of him, you sure he's a f***in traveller?'
S. 'Definitely mate.'
T. 'What's his number'
S. Gives him the phone number.
T. 'Leave it with me.'
S gets on with his work and later that day his office phone rings. He picks it up and a voice on the other end just says 'he's not coming.'
And he didn't.