(sorry could’nt resist) :) Gipsy rider havoc in pub A COUNCIL has shut down a pub after gipsies rode FIVE HORSES into the bar - causing mayhem among locals.  More than 100 travellers descended on the Cross Keys pub in Erith, Kent, on August 15, and five of them simply rode their horses through the bar doors in a bid to get a drink. Police licensing officer PC Eddy Boston showed CCTV ev More..idence of female gipsy riding her horse into the pub at an earlier incident in June, saying it had become a 'regular occurrence'. He said that there had been reports of horses being ridden into the pub in April, June and July, but that in August FIVE horses were ridden in as the travellers congregated at the pub. He told Bexley Council's licensing sub-committee - which decides whether pubs keep their licences - last Friday that the travellers had also caused chaos on the roads outside the pub by racing ponies and traps along the High Street. The council committee decided to revoke the licence from landlord Derek McKenzie, who told the panel that he felt he had 'the situation under control'. Mr McKenzie, 68, said that the horses were in the pub for 'a matter of seconds' before he shooed them out and told the riders not to ride into his pub 'like a cowboy'. But bosses on the council - after being shown CCTV footage of a female traveller riding into the pub - ordered that his licence was revoked because he 'could not control the situation'. PC Boston said problems with the council's CCTV system prevented him showing the incident on August 15 which led to the pub's closure, but showed film of a similar situation at the pub in June, where a woman is seen riding a horse into the pub. PC Boston said that he had asked the landlord is he needed help with the travellers in June, but was told by Mr McKenzie that he could 'handle the situation'. Asked why he had not ordered the 100 plus travellers to leave, Mr McKenzie said he was worried they would 'smash hi...