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Speaker 1: You may have seen the reports that on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: will investigations are ongoing after a man was injured during

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Speaker 1: a stray dog attack. So this stray dog in Nightcliffe.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about what happened is the Nightcliff Shopping

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Speaker 1: Center manager Peter Paniers. Good morning to you, Peter.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I was Cody. How are you today? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Not too bad, Peter. It sounds like a terrible situation

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Speaker 1: with this stray dog coming into the car park area.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm really distressed actually, because I've been looking at

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Speaker 2: the footage since yesterday trying to determine if this animal

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Speaker 2: has ever been to the shopping center before, trying to

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Speaker 2: find out if somebody has actually walked in with this dog.

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Speaker 2: But from what I can see at the moment, a

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Speaker 2: gentleman that comes to the shopping center quite regularly has

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Speaker 2: a very beautiful dog, a female, and I've watched it

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Speaker 2: grow up over a course of time. He did his shopping,

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Speaker 2: came outside, picked up the dog that was tied up

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Speaker 2: in the front of the shopping center, was walking towards

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Speaker 2: dick Ward Drive and a dog appeared in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the car park saw the man walking with his

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Speaker 2: large quite a large pub and just went straight across

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Speaker 2: the car park and attacked this dog instantly. Now, this

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Speaker 2: poor guy I think was shot. So he's still trying

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Speaker 2: to hold onto his dog. He's holding onto shopping, shopping

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Speaker 2: has gone everywhere. He falls over. There is blood everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Full on attack, I'm talking about. What Anyway, his dog

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Speaker 2: gets off the off the lead. People are trying to help.

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Speaker 2: His dog runs off, and so does the the straight dog. Now,

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Speaker 2: just to get it right, the straight dog is a

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Speaker 2: big male and he attacked, which is very very unusual.

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Speaker 2: He attacked a female you know, pup. Now she's quite large,

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Speaker 2: but she's puppy up because I've seen her grows and

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Speaker 2: she's just the most well behaved, most beautiful animal, you know. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this mongrel dog just comes across cross the car park. Oh,

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Speaker 2: gentleman is running, you know, on his hands and knees,

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Speaker 2: really trying to get his dog who's just got off

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Speaker 2: the lead. Now, in the meantime, I didn't seal this,

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Speaker 2: of course till the footage, but I was just driving

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Speaker 2: to the center and I saw that there was an

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Speaker 2: outside of the Big Wall Drive, and I thought there

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Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, oh gosh, you know, sometimes we have

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Speaker 2: complaints and this poor man lying down there were ambulance

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Speaker 2: offices around him. Anyway, when I came to the center,

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Speaker 2: there were police cars here. There was a dog that

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Speaker 2: was sort of as as it was mentioned, a hog

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Speaker 2: tied on the ground. My security guy was there, the

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Speaker 2: Wolves manager was there. I was told straight away that

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Speaker 2: you know, a man was attacked. There is blood all

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Speaker 2: over the pavement. I mean, it's just terrible, and all

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Speaker 2: you can think about is what if it's a child

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Speaker 2: walking with his mom? What is it's a child holding

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Speaker 2: a little puppy while while his mum or dad are

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Speaker 2: doing some shopping or something, you know, Like, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's just yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. It's you sound shaken by it, old Peter,

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Speaker 1: and I can understand why.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I've just been watching it now on the

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Speaker 2: on my screen and I just cannot believe. I just

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Speaker 2: can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh mate, it is. It's an incredibly frightening situation.

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Speaker 1: Has the so did the council come and apprehend or

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Speaker 1: come and pick up that dog.

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Speaker 2: What did they do? The council came. The council came

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Speaker 2: straight after the police did, and they put the dog

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Speaker 2: they congratulated the security and there was basically they picked

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Speaker 2: the poor gentleman that I believe had an episode, you know,

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Speaker 2: like a health issue anyway. But what the worst thing

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Speaker 2: was when his dog ran off. This we'll call it

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Speaker 2: the mungol dog, chased after it and then looking at

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Speaker 2: this footage today, it came back. So the man's pop.

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Speaker 2: The female dog came running back to the front of

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Speaker 2: a lady who just walked to the front of the

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Speaker 2: this dog, attacking two dogs as well. Oh, there was

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Speaker 2: a you know, a guy is trying to sort of

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Speaker 2: the his hair or something and held onto him until

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Speaker 1: You know, so paid up by all accounts.

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Speaker 2: The footage, well I just got off the screen now

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Speaker 2: it's just like it's amazing, Like it's just no cole

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so by all accounts, it's it is a

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Speaker 1: stray dog by the sounds of things, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: nobody knows who owns it.

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Speaker 2: At the moment. Look, what I'm trying to do is

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to go through all the footage and I've

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Speaker 2: been doing it, you know, since earlier this morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and basically at about eight twenty two yesterday morning. You

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Speaker 2: see there's a couple of people sort of walking to

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Speaker 2: the center from the Cord Drive and then straight after

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Speaker 2: that a dog's come. A dog comes from what looks

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Speaker 2: comes into the center and comes into the center of

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Speaker 2: the car park basically I think looking for its owner.

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Speaker 2: That it looks to me I've always had like large,

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Speaker 2: large dogs, but this one here has never I don't

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Speaker 2: think he's ever had any form of looking after a

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Speaker 2: training or anything. Was arge dog saw the it's very,

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Speaker 2: very unusual for a large male dog to actually attack

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Speaker 2: a small female pub a smaller female.

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Speaker 1: Pop. Yeah, it sounds like it was bloody, frightening Peter,

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Speaker 1: any word, Yeah, is there any word at this point

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Speaker 1: in time? How the gentleman is going whose dog was attacked?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I believe that he had to go to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's still there or not. But

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Speaker 2: when I after I realized that somebody was attacked, not

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Speaker 2: knowing how bad it was, I took off from a

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Speaker 2: they were busy with this guy who looked like he

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Speaker 2: was having you know. To me, he looked like he

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Speaker 2: was having a serious medical sort of you know episode.

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Speaker 2: But because he was there with the ambulance, I left

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Speaker 2: straight away, came back to the shopping center, and I

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Speaker 2: had to go straight onto the footage to try and

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Speaker 2: work out see if I could find out who owned

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Speaker 2: this bloody dog. You know, Oh, Peter, amazing fight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is frightening. And mate, I know you've like

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Speaker 1: you've had that shopping center for such a long time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, something like these happening must be quite frightening

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Speaker 2: Well, look, talking about thoughts. I've never seen this in

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Speaker 2: thirteen years. I've never seen this at the shopping center.

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Speaker 2: Not even a dog fight. I haven't people sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 2: they wandering and they the dogs have following them. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've had a session where excuse me, now, you can't

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Speaker 2: come in here with a dog. Some people take it

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Speaker 2: very nicely, but I'm used to people telling me to

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Speaker 2: go and get you know, okay, because we have other

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Speaker 2: issues the shopping center as well, every shopping center does.

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Speaker 2: Now a person comes in sometimes I have a little

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Speaker 2: dog in a trolley, you know, I mean, well, or

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Speaker 2: he might be a kid dog, you know, which is okay.

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Speaker 2: We have a person that comes to here it from

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Speaker 2: the RETNU Foundation, his guide dog. I mean, why not,

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Speaker 2: you know, but most people, yeah, ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 2: people are really responsible. They come here, they tied the

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Speaker 2: dog up outside. They come into the shopping nice nice

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Speaker 2: little dogs, big dogs as well, you know, and believe

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Speaker 2: never any problem. This one here was just something else. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this was just something else.

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Speaker 1: How incredibly frightening. Well, Peter, I really appreciate you having

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Speaker 1: a chat to us this morning. It sounds like you

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Speaker 1: are doing your level best to work out exactly, you know,

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Speaker 1: where the dogs come from, and to help the police

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Speaker 1: and the authorities. And it is, you know, a Nightcliff's

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Speaker 1: a lovely shopping center. You know. I was there the

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Speaker 1: day before at around about that time with my daughter

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Speaker 1: doing my shopping, and it is somewhere where you feel safe.

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Speaker 1: There's security around the place, so I'm pleased as well,

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Speaker 1: you know, by the sounds of things, everybody rushed to

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Speaker 1: help this poor bloke as quickly.

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Speaker 2: It's possible. We had such pride in the shopping center.

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Speaker 2: The children that owns that, you know, left me here

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Speaker 2: for a little while thirteen years ago and I'm still

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Speaker 2: here and he's never come back. And he was the

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Speaker 2: Australian of the Year, the Senior Citizen of the Year

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Speaker 2: for good reason, and his his concentration is so genuine,

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Speaker 2: you know, and keeping the shopping center as safe as

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Speaker 2: it can be enough everyone, And what happened yesterday is

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Speaker 2: just I just can't get over. It's just like seeing

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Speaker 2: this poor bloke on the ground, you know, like, wow,

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Speaker 2: I wish I could find out, well, the person that

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Speaker 2: actually owns this dog, they must know what this dog is. Like, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I reckon this didn't just this didn't just happen, you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's it, and it should never bloody be out,

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Speaker 1: you know, out on the streets when you've got a

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Speaker 1: dangerous dog. Peter, thank you so very much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. I really appreciate it. Thank you, by

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Speaker 1: the way, thank you, Thanks Peter, I appreciate it. Thanks. Mate,