On 13 Jan 2007 07:26:55 -0800, "John B" wrote:

John Rowland wrote:
Tony Martin is a hero who killed a pikey scumbag in
the dark and who shouldn't have been on his property.

And who cares about the ethnic
origin of the child he killed? (well, racists might, I suppose).

Is pikey a race? I thought it was a behaviour pattern.

The primary meaning of "pikey" is "Irish traveller",

Was. These days it's interchangeable with the more common "chav".