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Speaker 1: We do know that there was a there's a situation

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Speaker 1: where another young Darwin man has had his car stolen

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Speaker 1: with the crime filmed and uploaded to social media.

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Speaker 2: The nineteen year old had dropped his toyo to High.

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Speaker 1: Lux at the Mechanic gets to get fixed when it

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Speaker 1: was stolen. His mother joins me on the line right now,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Lee.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: How are you really well?

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning, Lee. What

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Speaker 1: happened to your son's ute?

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Speaker 3: Look, he dropped it off mechanics two weeks ago, late

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Speaker 3: at night because there was some mechanical issues, so he

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Speaker 3: dropped it off and I mean obviously he didn't want

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Speaker 3: it to break down, so we're going to take the

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Speaker 3: keys around in the morning. And about three hours after

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Speaker 3: he dropped it off, they stolen the window and jump

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Speaker 3: started it.

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Speaker 2: What was this last weekly?

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Speaker 3: No, it was two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Yep, so two weeks ago. Now where did it end up?

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Speaker 3: Look, it was kind of all over the place.

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Speaker 4: It was at Daddy River and he contacted the police

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Speaker 4: and they said, yet, we're aware of that, but we

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Speaker 4: think it's on its way to Pepminardi and then back

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Speaker 4: to the Daily River. But there's someone on Facebook that

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Speaker 4: I don't have Facebook, that they it's a stolid car

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Speaker 4: Facebook site he founded and contacted him with some pictures

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Speaker 4: and they were live streaming on it and they said

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Speaker 4: it is your car, and he said it's definitely my

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Speaker 4: car because there's some things that he made on He

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Speaker 4: recognized it. Anyway, it doesn't matter, but live streaming and

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Speaker 4: that's trooping around in it.

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Speaker 1: Live streaming themselves in your son's car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's next level arrogant, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I'd love to say it's unbelievablely but it's

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Speaker 1: actually not anymore. Yeah, you know, that's the really disappointing part.

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Speaker 1: So where is he at in terms of trying to

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Speaker 1: get it back? Has he been able to get it back?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, they called up last oh look at somesor

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Speaker 3: I think it was Thursday night and I said, we've

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Speaker 3: just found it. It's at Daddy River. So that eight

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Speaker 3: o'clos at night, he hired a trailer, went out with

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Speaker 3: his mate and picked it up. But as you would expect,

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Speaker 3: it's in a pretty bad stay.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me a little bit about your son's car.

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Speaker 1: I imagine it was his pride and joy and something

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Speaker 1: that he worked pretty hard for.

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Speaker 3: Oh you know what, I was gutted for him. That

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Speaker 3: was the first car he brought, and he brought at eighteen,

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Speaker 3: and he paid, he paid cash for it. He'd saved

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Speaker 3: up that money. Yeah, it was it was his pride

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Speaker 3: and joy. Yeah, it's devastating. You know, that's a pretty

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Speaker 3: major asset for someone who's nineteen. He's just and he

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Speaker 3: was getting it fixed to salad. He's just moved out

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Speaker 3: of home. He's got bills to pay it this, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: pretty big asset to him. Not to have.

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Speaker 2: Lee is that you're going to be repairable?

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Speaker 3: Nah, I don't. I don't think so. I've taken the

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Speaker 3: tool boxes, the roof stand, the tray stands, they took

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Speaker 3: the battery of feelings. But look, you know what they

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Speaker 3: painted inside and out, there's a lot of I don't

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Speaker 3: think so. They haven't had a chance to look at

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Speaker 3: the luck, at the engine. But unlikely.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Now, what have police said to you at this point

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Speaker 1: in time, or what have they said to your son

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Speaker 3: No? Nothing, Look, I understand they're very understaffed, but we

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Speaker 3: know there's we've got the Instagram account for these people.

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Speaker 3: We've been following it. And the police said to they

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Speaker 3: said to him, we know them, we know who they are.

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Speaker 3: And when he comes like, well, can you just go

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Speaker 4: And you know, like they said, they're understaffed and disappealed

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Speaker 4: them and they've got a big area to cover.

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Speaker 3: But I just I just don't get it. We know

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Speaker 3: you have the tart, know who was in it live streaming.

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Speaker 4: I'm not no, nothing's happening.

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Speaker 2: Oh, your son must be absolutely gutted.

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Speaker 3: I really do feel for him when he caught up

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Speaker 3: because a mechanic caught up and said, did you drop

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Speaker 3: your car? Mate? You said he? He said, it's not

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Speaker 3: here and there smashed glass. So he's gotten some video

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Speaker 3: I just knew what statement if he ever looked that

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Speaker 1: Oh Lee, And so I mean, don't don't name it

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Speaker 1: for us on air, But there's an Instagram account where

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Speaker 1: they're sharing all these videos and photos of cars that

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Speaker 1: they're stealing.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and a live streamer and there are some pictures

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Speaker 3: of them, but they take them down, you know, not

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Speaker 3: long after they've done it, so it's a bit of here,

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Speaker 3: check this out, and then it's oho. There's no record

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Speaker 3: of an except that you can screenshot it.

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Speaker 1: I firmly, firmly believe that we need to get tougher

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Speaker 1: if there are people that are stealing cars, if they're

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Speaker 1: then they should be getting additional punishment to whatever punishment

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Speaker 1: is clear to me that I was going to say

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Speaker 1: a rude word, that they're trying to outdo each other.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yes, yeah, I agree, I agree something is

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Speaker 3: definitely something needs to be done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I understand as well that your son was saving

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Speaker 1: up to go to the Fink and a concert, So

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is he was obviously trying to sell

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Speaker 1: to the Fink Desert Race.

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Speaker 2: What's this going to mean? Lee?

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Speaker 3: Look, I feel like he's going to have to choose

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Speaker 3: because I mean, he's just needs out of home, so

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Speaker 3: obviously this expenses there he wasn't expecting, which is kind

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Speaker 3: of joyful as a power to watch Pulvagamut. That all

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Speaker 3: doesn't cost money, mate, But yeah, he was going to think,

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Speaker 3: and he's got tickets which he just about sold his

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Speaker 3: soul to get for the Luke Kum's. But I think

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Speaker 3: it is Luke comes.

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Speaker 2: He's my favorite as.

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Speaker 4: Well, So yeah, I'm not sure he's going to have

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Speaker 4: to but yeah, maybe you just have to pick one

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Speaker 3: It's really disappointing. It kind of wasn't Yeah, look, it

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Speaker 3: sucks and I feel quite angry as well. Yeah, who

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Speaker 3: hasn't experienced the impact of I've had this house.

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Speaker 4: Has broken ety twice and my daughter's had two cards

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Speaker 4: sole and it's just it's out of control.

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Speaker 1: It feels that way, doesn't it, Lee, And you know,

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Speaker 1: people like people are really fed up. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm banging my head against a wall, you know, trying

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Speaker 1: to make the government to understand just how Territorians are

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Speaker 1: feeling at this point, and it's frustrating.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're all living it, really, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we truly are.

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Speaker 3: Lee.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me, Katie, thank you,