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Speaker 1: I caught up with Kirk Spry in so Juna in

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Speaker 1: the main street. It's a couple of main streets, is

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Speaker 1: kind of a ninety degree angle where the ninety degree

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Speaker 1: corner where the shops are on both corners, both streets

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Speaker 1: going down a little way and that's essentially the center

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Speaker 1: of town and just another one hundred meters further ahead

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Speaker 1: is the foreshore and the jetty beyond that point, so

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Speaker 1: it's right there in the heart of it. Kirk runs

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Speaker 1: a sports store and we had a chat on Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning and this is what it was like, except it

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Speaker 1: won't play. Let's try again with Kirk and sports Power Sajun.

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Speaker 1: I've spoken with Kirk before on the radio regarding the

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Speaker 1: issues here. Kirk, I've got to say, in the what

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Speaker 1: twelve or a bit over that hours I've been in Sojuna. Now,

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Speaker 1: the most disturbing thing I've seen it's a traffic cone

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Speaker 1: chucked off the jetty in the water. It's pretty quiet, mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like I'm quiet week this week. It's

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Speaker 2: not not as bad as it has been. Earlier in

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Speaker 2: the week. It was court week, so that was a

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Speaker 2: little bit rough around this corner of the street. But

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Speaker 2: nothing too bad this week so far.

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Speaker 1: You were telling me before I fear about an incident

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Speaker 1: across the road at one of the welfare agencies where

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Speaker 1: police had to be called and there was a bit

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Speaker 1: of a scuffle going on with the volunteers working in

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Speaker 1: near the staff and crossed over into your business.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sort of a bit of action happening over

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Speaker 2: in the Red Cross building and the girls from the

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Speaker 2: surf shop went over there to sort of see what

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Speaker 2: was going on and that sort of got brought out

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Speaker 2: onto the street and end up in an altercation with

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Speaker 2: a man that I ended up having to wrestle a

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Speaker 2: little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the police.

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Speaker 2: Come very shortly after that, but it just seemed like

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Speaker 2: escalated quickly.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to be involved in stuff like that

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Speaker 1: as a business owner.

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Speaker 3: Should Now we're definitely trying not to.

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Speaker 1: How often would you call the police?

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Speaker 2: Probably twice a week, And I don't call them for

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Speaker 2: every single noise. I just call them for the big stuff,

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Speaker 2: for big stuff, if I think something's going down or

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Speaker 2: not not right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the big stuff? Like? Obviously that instident

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Speaker 1: is one you know, you've got to wrestle a.

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Speaker 2: Bloke mainly the fighting and the you know, people in danger.

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Speaker 2: I guess the weekend's always seem to get a bit

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Speaker 2: quieter and it's just the way it is on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: You've talked about having to spray down the footpath out

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Speaker 1: the front to clean the place up. Is that still happening.

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Speaker 2: The councer has sort of come back on board and

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Speaker 2: making sure the streets are cleaner, so that definitely the

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Speaker 2: council has picked up their cleaning a little bit, which

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Speaker 2: is good. We asked them to do it and they

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Speaker 2: have so in the last two months it's definitely improved.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't happen during just there's something during the day.

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Speaker 3: We could call them.

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Speaker 2: They've definitely come but not in the last few weeks

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Speaker 2: coming to work, there hasn't been as much mess.

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Speaker 1: The weather's been cooler. Is that a factor do you think?

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Speaker 3: Probably? I know I want to be home so step

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Speaker 3: cold nights.

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Speaker 1: We're too from here for the town. And I've got

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Speaker 1: to tell you too, I've spoken with business owners today

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Speaker 1: who are open already, who say, great place to bring

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Speaker 1: up kids. It's a great town. Everyone's friendly. The issues

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Speaker 1: will they happen everywhere? What do you say to that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just been on a bit of a tour

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Speaker 2: around Western Australia and definitely hadn't seen issues like we're

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Speaker 2: having in the morning, where you've you know, you don't

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Speaker 2: safet fulate you can walk to the bank because you

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Speaker 2: have money on your hands, and there's people on the

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Speaker 2: corners like you know, and having to walk through and

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Speaker 2: why they're arguing and all that as well. So I

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Speaker 2: definitely like a morning is a place to have a

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Speaker 2: look and see the difference between now and the n

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Speaker 2: type thing. But I've definitely been to other places and

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Speaker 2: don't have to go through that in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Not one hundred percent sure where we go.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard for me to describe because today might

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Speaker 2: be a beautiful day, it's sunny, it's you know, you

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Speaker 2: can't complain, but tomorrow would be different. You just don't

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Speaker 2: know and you don't expect what comes. And I have

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Speaker 2: we have had an incident this week with one young

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Speaker 2: man he's about forty five years old, and I end

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Speaker 2: up calling Triple zerre on that one because he was

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Speaker 2: pretty erratic.

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Speaker 1: Is that the man you wrestled?

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Speaker 3: No One?

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Speaker 2: So that the other incident was about three weeks ago

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Speaker 2: and this one was this week. What happened there, I

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Speaker 2: was walking to the bank and he was quite aggressive

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Speaker 2: on the corner. I was walking back from the bank

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Speaker 2: to the shop and he was pointing at me, yelling

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Speaker 2: at you. But he'd already been in the shop this

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Speaker 2: week and called my staff a sea word. On the footage,

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Speaker 2: you cots see she was quite rattled, and she had

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Speaker 2: a phone in the hand and she had a number

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Speaker 2: ready to dial. She just felt intimidated from that incident.

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Speaker 2: I was worried because for some reason.

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Speaker 3: He wanted me. I know of him, but I don't

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Speaker 3: know him.

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Speaker 2: And three days later, when he's coming back for me,

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Speaker 2: I was unsure.

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Speaker 3: Especially with his state.

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Speaker 2: So we actually locked tourists in the shop and locked

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Speaker 2: the doors and the court triple the area.

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Speaker 3: And that was this week.

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Speaker 2: I haven't really opened up and talked about that one

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Speaker 2: yet because that's a different incident. I don't feel like

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Speaker 2: that one's to do with people living on the streets

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Speaker 2: or anything. He's actually a well known local guy. There's

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Speaker 2: still another social issue that we're having.

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Speaker 3: Tough.

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Speaker 1: That's hard to run a business, hard to live your

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Speaker 1: life with that going on.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, it's like you're sort of in fear. You want

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Speaker 2: to protect your staff, which is the one thing we'd

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Speaker 2: probably try to do, is you know, especially like young girls,

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Speaker 2: like we have seventeen or younger girls working for us

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Speaker 2: and in the afternoons and some of the stuff they

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Speaker 2: have to see, it's not normal, it's disturbing. And like

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Speaker 2: I said, this today is beautiful and quiet, but earlier

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Speaker 2: last week was pretty horrible.

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Speaker 1: Good good luck with it. And at least you've got

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Speaker 1: police nearby and they come obviously.

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Speaker 3: Around the corner. They come.

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Speaker 2: They quite regularly are called out to have incidents, so

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Speaker 2: just even know the police station's there. They sometimes maybe

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Speaker 2: at Devonard or anywhere. But I find that they respond.

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Speaker 2: It depends on the manner that you're responding. So sometimes

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Speaker 2: if we have the one three one number, they'll respond gentler,

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Speaker 2: but definitely when I call triple zero, they were here

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Speaker 2: within a few minutes.

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Speaker 3: That's what you want. Kirk, good luck, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Kirk Spry, who runs Sports Power in so Juna,