Chav makes frontpage of New York Times

[Canidae]

"At Wit's End, a Town Dithers Over Its Millionaire Pest"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/inter ... to.html?hp

Mr. Carroll is an object of national fascination in part because of his apparently pathological criminality, and in part because he represents a kind of Briton known as a chav. Chavs, whether rich or poor, tend to favor gaudy jewelry and expensive-but-tacky clothes with big logos and to behave in a way that others find coarse or obnoxious.

Male chavs wear tracksuits and baseball caps; female chavs pull their hair tightly back in buns or ponytails, a style known as a "council house facelift," from the term for public housing.

Mr. Carroll has "King of Chavs" printed on his Mercedes, a car known in the newspapers as the Loutmobile (its license plate reads L111 OUT).

So are chavs taking over Britain or something?

Did you see that guys front yard? looked like something from near chernobyl.

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You cant move for it here, I think telford really is chav central TBH.

I'm driving to Stocton Grange in Norton in Telford on monday for a gig. I'll watch out for the chavs.