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Speaker 1: We've heard that three boys have been arrested over a

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Speaker 1: weekend crime spree in Palmerston, Crystal covering this in her

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Speaker 1: local news just a little while ago. It is alleged

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Speaker 1: that they tried to steal a car from a home

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Speaker 1: in Zicoli and threw something at a residence who confronted

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Speaker 1: them before fleeing. Police were then alluded to an injured

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Speaker 1: thirty five year old man who'd been hit in the

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Speaker 1: head with a rock after trying to stop youths from

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Speaker 1: stealing his car at another home nearby. Now the trio

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Speaker 1: also allegedly threatened a worker at a caravan park and

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Speaker 1: stole a work vehicle. The boys are further accused of

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Speaker 1: ram rating Camping World and Complete Angler and stealing a

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Speaker 1: number of compound bows and arrows. Joining me now on

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Speaker 1: the line is the owner of Complete Angler and Camping World,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Thomas. Good morning, Kevin, y good mate. Lovely to

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Speaker 1: have you on the show. It's a shame, it's under

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Speaker 1: not very nice circumstances, mate, Yeah, talk me through what

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Speaker 1: happened on the weekend, So.

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Speaker 2: That for fifteen am on Saturday morning, we've got a

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Speaker 2: notification from our security company that we had motion and

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Speaker 2: multiple detection of arms going off in the building, and

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Speaker 2: we went to our vision and saw we saw three,

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Speaker 2: but I suspect they might have been four that had

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Speaker 2: broken into our building and basically come through a six

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Speaker 2: foot high fence, rem rated the gate, remraated the roller door,

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Speaker 2: smashed through our front doors, and then proceeded to steal

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Speaker 2: our four compound boats and scenarrows.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, may I mean it sounds like that would have

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Speaker 1: caused quite a bit of damage. Was that damage extensive? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Look, our rear gates will have to be replaced, obviously,

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Speaker 2: a rolled all be replaced, and we had to get

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Speaker 2: an emergency call out for glass on the weekend. So

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Speaker 2: we I'm estimating somewhere around a fifteen thousand plus dollar.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, that is insane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, all for nothing really, but look, as

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Speaker 2: you know that the coppers, the pol police tried and forensics,

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Speaker 2: those guys, they are absolutely doing an absolute magnificent job.

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Speaker 2: They were so good, they were see here so quickly.

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Speaker 2: They've kept me up to date on everything's been happening.

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Speaker 2: They they've done a magnificent job. Now judiciary needs to

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Speaker 2: step up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, you know that triedent team, the dogps,

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Speaker 1: all of them. They work so bloody hard to try

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Speaker 1: and help territorians. After this kind of thing happens. keV

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Speaker 1: tell us in terms of so they were they were

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Speaker 1: tell us exactly what was stolen? Compound crossbows? Was that right?

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Speaker 2: We don't we don't have those crossbow We de stopped

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Speaker 2: doctor Crossbow's after our last episodes a few years ago,

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Speaker 2: and we just went to the recreational compound bow, which is,

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Speaker 2: while there's still a pretty substantial weapon, they're not as

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Speaker 2: easy to use as a crossbow or loose as a crossbow.

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Speaker 2: So in between firing I suppose has reduced time. But

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: I've now destopped. I've instructed my staff to remove anything

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Speaker 2: archer related from my store. I apologize to our customers

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Speaker 2: who buy archery gear off us, but unfortunately I'm sick

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Speaker 2: of being a target. Like most people with this sort

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Speaker 2: of stuff. You know, we're we're doing nothing illegal, We're

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Speaker 2: securing as best we can, you know, behind three lock

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Speaker 2: lockdate lock rollidor and lock front doors. Yet we still

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Speaker 2: get done. And the keyboard Warrior is a hammer and

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Speaker 2: so on that sort of stuff, So you know, you

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Speaker 2: need to just back off a little bit. We're not

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Speaker 2: even break the law here, right.

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Speaker 1: You're literally you're securing stuff, you know, like you've said,

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Speaker 1: behind all these different locks. And it's a situation where

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Speaker 1: you know, when people are trying to get their hands

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Speaker 1: on something, they will do whatever they need to do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've ripped your bloody gates off, for God's sake.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we go, I'll steal a forward rather and

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Speaker 2: roll it from the gates and the roller. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: don't know how you stop that. You know, I've got

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Speaker 2: more CCTV here than Channeling Agency combined. And it's it's

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Speaker 2: just we've this a third time in probably five years

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Speaker 2: we've been done. But yeah, and each time we've been

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Speaker 2: the target of archery. So that's now gone from their shops,

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Speaker 2: which is a real shame.

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Speaker 1: Like it's a real shame in the sense that there's

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Speaker 1: plenty of laura abiding citizens who you know, who are

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Speaker 1: who are using those things in a way that is

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Speaker 1: totally legal.

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Speaker 2: Yep. I agree, You're never You're never going to You're

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Speaker 2: not going to stop people who want to get their

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Speaker 2: hands on weapons.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, mate, are you ramping up security more at

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Speaker 1: the store. I mean, you guys have like you've got

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Speaker 1: a heap of security there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much I've got out of thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars with a CCTV here, I've had an electric sense,

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Speaker 2: I've got six foot high fences. I've got the whole

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Speaker 2: place lit up like Darlin Airport runway. We've got caretaker

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Speaker 2: on site, we've got movement detection, we've got everything on site,

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Speaker 2: and it just continues to happen. You know, we've had

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Speaker 2: visitors in the past six months who have tried, but

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Speaker 2: they've disappeared before we can get to them. Yeah, cut

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Speaker 2: fences and that sort of stuff. But this is this

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Speaker 2: is his next level. Like most businesses in the territory,

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Speaker 2: now I just start to question whether this is worth it.

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Speaker 1: Well, And this is the thing, right, We've got so

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Speaker 1: many wonderful businesses in the Northern Territories, so many wonderful

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Speaker 1: people like yourself and your family running great businesses, and

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Speaker 1: we've all had a gutful of this kind of crime.

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Speaker 1: I mean, for a little while there it seemed to

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Speaker 1: quieten down a little bit, but you know, things, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, Yeah, you know, the current

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Speaker 2: government is the one when I was stirring up the

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Speaker 2: horness nested while back. The current government we're in opposition.

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Speaker 2: Leah was the head of the opposition on it with

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Speaker 2: her and I met with the other.

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Speaker 1: One, Gary Yeah yeah, Gary gets out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the only two that were in parliament, and they

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Speaker 2: were pretty strong worded at that point in time. But

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Speaker 2: now maybe that this government needs to needs to put

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Speaker 2: their money where theirs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well and.

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Speaker 2: Start start fixing or starting to help to fix this problem.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe communities these guys come from. I've got to

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Speaker 2: start having their funding taken off them, that money being

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Speaker 2: put into repairs in businesses like mine and those around

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Speaker 2: the territory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something's definitely got to change. And and you know,

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Speaker 1: and we we have to we we we can't continue

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Speaker 1: on like this. I mean, businesses can't continue on like this.

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Speaker 1: You can't have a situation with someone on the weekend

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Speaker 1: out and Zachola he's got a rock thrown at his head.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's disgusting behavior and we're all

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Speaker 1: over us.

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Speaker 2: We're all over it. I don't know what the answer is.

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Speaker 2: I've been instance line sixty nine, lived in the territory

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Speaker 2: and so just sing as the last fifteen plus years

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Speaker 2: as become of just really unbearable. We're not as bad

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Speaker 2: as our springs yet, but it's coming that way.

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Speaker 1: Well. Look, I hope not. I hope not, Kevin. I

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Speaker 1: do hope that you know that we start to see

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Speaker 1: things turn around. Mate. I'm really sorry to hear what

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Speaker 1: happened to you guys on the weekend. I know you

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Speaker 1: said how expensive those those gates are going to be

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Speaker 1: to fix? How all up? How much damage do you

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Speaker 1: think has been caused here?

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Speaker 2: It's the mating. I haven't got the final quotes in yet,

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Speaker 2: but we're estimating somewhere in yeah bus the stop has disappeared.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: I think the guys from Try and Drop one crossover

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Speaker 2: I once saw not cross the compound bow back this morning.

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Speaker 2: But the anti police they're just they're on point there

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Speaker 2: right across it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, Kevin, mate, thank you so much for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us this morning. Like I say, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: it's on such ordinary circumstances, but thank you for taking

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Speaker 1: the time to have it out with me. All the

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Speaker 1: best to you, to your world, to everybody out there. Mate,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks so much,