Johnny Bottles

This goes some way to explaining how the Rathkeale travellers can afford €185,000 cars. Johnny 'Bottles' Sheridan heads up up just one of about 20 crews doing tarmacadam scams all over Europe. The sales pitch starts with: "..we are working on a big motorway project and have some tarmacadam left over that's going to be dumped, but we can use it to surface your driveway for free..."

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