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Speaker 1: You're joining me on the line right now is from

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Speaker 1: the Mitchell's Camping Store. It is Michael. Good morning to you, Michael.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Michael. I understand, well, earlier in the week we received

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Speaker 1: a message from you guys letting us know that there

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Speaker 1: had been a number of items stolen from one of

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Speaker 1: your stores. Tell us what happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, about six o'clock Monday morning, our gate got rammed

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Speaker 2: by a car again and then our front door was

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Speaker 2: smashed and try to open, and then about five lovely

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Speaker 2: people come running into our store grabbing every bow crossbow

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Speaker 2: that he could get a hold of.

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Speaker 1: Goodness me, So, Michael, what exactly was stolen?

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Speaker 2: I think it was about eight compound bows and four crossbows?

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Speaker 1: What exactly you know? For those of us listening who

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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what a compound boi is, what is it?

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Speaker 2: It's a bo that can go up to sixty five pounds,

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Speaker 2: so they can be used for hunting, so it's not

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Speaker 2: a recreation but it's actually a hunting boat. People do

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Speaker 2: use them for recreation as and just targeting as well.

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Speaker 1: So eight compound bows, how many crossbows are four? And

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that they also did they need to take, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, arrows please, I'm speaking, I'm speaking to you

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Speaker 1: like a layman who's got no idea how these things work.

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Speaker 1: But did they need did they need ammunition?

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Speaker 2: They did take arrows and bolts which are for the crossbows,

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Speaker 2: so they can use them.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, I guess you know. The concerning part here

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Speaker 1: is and we have certainly made contact with the police

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Speaker 1: to see if we're able to get some more information.

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Speaker 1: But the concerning party is that they're now have been

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Speaker 1: photos shared on social media of well out of the

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Speaker 1: community of w where it does appear as though there

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Speaker 1: are crossbows and I don't know it does it look

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Speaker 1: like those compound bows as well?

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Speaker 2: I believe so. I have seen the pictures as well.

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Speaker 2: They do look like and I can't really say because

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Speaker 2: the people at that way do actually buy these off

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Speaker 2: us for hunting purposes? Yep, I can't really say yes

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Speaker 2: or no if that's ours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess it's hard, you know, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to know anyway. That is something that I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Police will be will be investigating. Michael,

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Speaker 1: I know you guys have been pretty frustrated hoy with

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Speaker 1: these breaking entries. It's not the first one for you,

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Speaker 1: is it.

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Speaker 2: No, this is the second one in just under two weeks.

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Speaker 2: The one or two weeks ago was exactly the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Bows and crossbows taken again, plus the gate smashed and

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Speaker 2: windows smashed. See, it is very frustrating.

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Speaker 1: And well, it's frustrating for so many different reasons. It's

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Speaker 1: frustrating because presumably it costs you a heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot of money to dead get the building resecured again,

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Speaker 1: and disrupts your trade.

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Speaker 2: That it did, Like we couldn't trade it all Monday

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Speaker 2: because waiting for the police forensics. No one could fix

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Speaker 2: our door until forensic came, so it was pretty late

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Speaker 2: in the day when the guys came to fix our door.

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Speaker 2: But thankfully they did come and fix it so we

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Speaker 2: could secure the building up.

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Speaker 1: Michael, Is it a worry for you guys, like from

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Speaker 1: your perspective, you know, with the compound bows and obviously

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Speaker 1: those crossbows being stolen, is it a worry if they

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Speaker 1: get in the wrong hands.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do worry about it because when we actually

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Speaker 2: sell the bows of crossbows, you must be eighteen to

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Speaker 2: purchase these items. Where these people that stole it. We

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Speaker 2: don't think we're eighteen. Have you guys got have you

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Speaker 2: worried that they're in the hands of young young individuals?

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Speaker 2: Is the problem we have in our in our minds.

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Speaker 1: Have you guys, have you got security vision and you know,

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Speaker 1: have you been able to pass that on to police?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got cameras. They don't care about the cameras, KD.

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Speaker 3: They looked straight at them while they were stealing the stuff,

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Speaker 3: so half their faces won't covered. The police do have

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Speaker 3: all the footage plus fingerprints.

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Speaker 2: They it doesn't face them at all. With the alarms

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Speaker 2: going off, and like I said, this was six o'clock

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Speaker 2: in the morning, so there would have been a lot

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Speaker 2: of traffic going down the Stuart Highway, and they entered

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Speaker 2: the building about four times, so it was a good

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Speaker 2: ten minutes. They don't They just don't care anymore.

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Speaker 1: Oh your poor buggers. I mean, like it's just one

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Speaker 1: of these things that we talk about so often, you know,

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Speaker 1: these breaking entries. But like I you know, like I've

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Speaker 1: said before, it is so frustrating then when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to run a business and so something like this continues

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Speaker 1: to happen, I know, you know, look, Michael, there might

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Speaker 1: be some people listening this morning thinking is there more

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Speaker 1: that you can do to try and secure the building.

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Speaker 1: But you said they've gotten through a gate and then

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Speaker 1: gotten through the doors.

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Speaker 2: That's right. They know we're looking at getting more protection

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Speaker 2: of out front of our building, but it is just

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Speaker 2: phenomenal the cost to secure the building. They will get

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Speaker 2: through somewhere else if they need to. It doesn't matter what.

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Speaker 3: You can do.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can have dogs here, they don't care

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Speaker 2: about that. You can have crimsafe all the way around

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Speaker 2: the building. They will figure out a way of breaking in,

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Speaker 2: like a lot of businesses find in dar when they

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Speaker 2: have crim safe or roller doors, they just must them open.

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Speaker 2: What do business owners go?

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Speaker 1: And?

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Speaker 2: Do you know we've all had enough? You go to

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Speaker 2: bed every night worrying that your phone's going to ring

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Speaker 2: that your business has been broken into.

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Speaker 1: Mate, You know, I honestly I've reached a point with

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Speaker 1: you know, with business owners like yourself, where I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what to say to you anymore, because I

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Speaker 1: I you know, like I can't under I can't understand

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Speaker 1: why nothing's changing, But also I can't imagine how you

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Speaker 1: do feel then when you get that call. You find

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Speaker 1: out that you've been broken into in your case, and

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Speaker 1: you probably worry a lot about you know, the crossbows

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Speaker 1: ending up in the wrong hands and you know what

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Speaker 1: can potentially happen, but also the damage that's caused and

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Speaker 1: what you've then got to do through no fault of

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Speaker 1: your own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's mind boggling, Katie. Just the damage and

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Speaker 2: like a couple of months ago when we got brought

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Speaker 2: into that, they did more damage than what they stole,

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Speaker 2: and just the cost is the insurance goes up, the boss,

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Speaker 2: the owner of the actual business is thinking about not

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Speaker 2: even selling these anymore. Which the good people have done

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Speaker 2: that do be like to hunt and use these to

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Speaker 2: hunt with is going to affect them as well. So

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Speaker 2: it's not just you know, every person and it's the

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Speaker 2: good people out there that do the right thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're going to be affected as well, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Michael, I really appreciate your having a chat

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Speaker 1: with me this morning. I feel for you guys, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your having a chat with me this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. Not a problem, Katie, Thanks mate,

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Speaker 1: Thank you