1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: If you were listening to the show a little bit 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: earlier this morning, you would have heard Crystal Gordon, our 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 1: news director, covering off on the fact that there was 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: car stolen in Palmerston yesterday and well a seven year 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: old had been in that vehicle and jumped out of 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: the car. 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: Luckily before this. 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: Well it's unclear whether it was a twelve or thirteen 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: year old who ended up stealing that car. But we 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: spoke about a little bit earlier and a witness has 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: given us a call and William joins us on the 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: line right now. 13 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: Good morning William, Good morning mate. How are you not 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: too bad? What happened yesterday? 15 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 3: Yes, I was a fear old ordeal. We sort of 16 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 3: parked up at the Bakewell shops there, heading towards the Chemist. 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: We saw the little girl just running across for the screaming, 18 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: we didn't for the thinkinging of it. Still, the month 19 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 3: sort of ran out of the Chemist towards the car. 20 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 3: Really branded. I saw that turned and was watching what 21 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: she was doing, just running towards the car. So I 22 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: started running sort of towards it. But then next second 23 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 3: car just to golf locker rocket. 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: Bloody hell. 25 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: So you were right there obviously as this was unfolding. 26 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was sort of fairly sort of close by. 27 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: It sort of happened really sort of quickly. That the 28 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,839 Speaker 3: biggest thing was just making sure that you know that 29 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: the little girls were were okay, and sort of no 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 3: one else was in the car. That was there big concern? 31 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: Oh wow, William, So was there one little girl? More? 32 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: There was two girls. One was in the shop with 33 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 3: the mum already and there was just the other girl 34 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: sort of sitting in the car waiting. 35 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: Oh was that little one okay? 36 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty shaken up. We sort of went and bought 37 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 3: some lollies and stuff just to try let their spirits 38 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: and try to take their mind off the ordeal that happened. 39 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: They took him a bit for the sort of calm down, 40 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 3: but yeah, everything sort of simmered down and sort of 41 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: came good. 42 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: How was that. 43 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 3: Mum really distraught? Really really distraught? Obviously during the incidents, 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 3: she sort of lost her phone, so straight away we're 45 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: on the phone the police getting that sorted. She was 46 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 3: really distraught and you couldn't understand she was just absolutely devastated. 47 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 3: So we stayed there well after till the police wrapped 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: up to make sure she was okay and nothing else 49 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 3: was sort of happened. 50 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: She must have been absolutely beside herself. You know, you'd 51 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: be your first thought would be making sure that your 52 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: children are okay, and then thinking, oh, my goodness, what 53 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: has unfolded here, and realizing that your car's gone. 54 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 3: One hundred percent. It happened so quick, like a blink 55 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 3: of an eye, and the individual was off to find out. 56 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 3: I'm not a parent or anything, but I really I 57 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: was horrified to myself, you know, just such a thinking 58 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: you're doing just a quick, simple task and all of 59 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 3: a sudden that could have gone south very quickly, very badly. Yeah. 60 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: And you know, William, we've had a couple of people 61 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: message in this morning and say, you know, you wouldn't 62 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: leave your seven year old in the car. I'm going 63 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,839 Speaker 1: to be really honest here and say that I have 64 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: left both of my kids in. 65 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: The car with it locked, but with it on. They're 66 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 2: a little bit older. 67 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: But you know, very often you've got a situation where 68 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: you might have a child that's sick in this case 69 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: without you know, like without knowing anything about it. I thought, 70 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: I wonder if that mum's going into the chemist to actually, 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: you know, to get something for a sick child. And 72 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: you think I'm just going to race in and get 73 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: what I need and then race out, and to have 74 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: something like this happen is unbelievable. 75 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: Well, why should I have to lock my car? You 76 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like it's getting disgusting. You know, 77 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 3: I can understand, you know, the mother going in there 78 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: seven years old, you know, just a quick trip, and 79 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: then twenty seconds later this sort was I felt so 80 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: sorrowfal Yeah, it's pretty scary that this sort of happened 81 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 3: broad daylight. It wasn't like it was three in the morning, you. 82 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 2: Know, like. 83 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: That's you know, that is the thing that I found 84 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: most mortifying is I thought exactly the same you know 85 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: you're talking about, Like I think it was five forty 86 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: or something. They had told us the police at there, 87 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's early in the afternoon. I've 88 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: got friends that live just near there. It's their regular supermarket. 89 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: It's an area where you would think that it would 90 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: be okay, Like I know that we all worry about 91 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: these issues with crime, and then to find out that 92 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: the police ended up apprehending at twelve and thirteen year 93 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 1: old who were allegedly chroming in that car at the 94 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: golf course. 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: It's mortifying. 96 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 3: It's pretty disgusting to think. The biggest issue is there's 97 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 3: no consequences. Nothing's going to happen, so nothing's going to 98 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 3: stop it from happening again. Yeah, someone, someone's going to 99 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: get killed, someone's going to die, and then who's going 100 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: to blame her? Everyone's going to be pointing figures and 101 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 3: the same routine, William. 102 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: Mate, you and your partner have done the right thing. 103 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Hey, you and your wife, it sounds like you've done 104 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: exactly the right thing helping this poor mum and her kids. Yeah, mate, 105 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: I know you haven't contacted us for this, but we 106 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: want to make you our territory and of the week 107 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: for being good bloke. And you know, like at the 108 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: end of the day, when I hear stories like this, 109 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: and when you hear this news start to flow through 110 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: in the morning, you start to feel really upset, thinking 111 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: what's happening to this place? And then I hear from 112 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: someone like you, and I think, do you know what, 113 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: for every bad situation that we have, there's someone really 114 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: bloody good out there doing the right thing, and that's 115 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: you and your wife. 116 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 3: My big thing is what happens theref was my wife, 117 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 3: my child, you know what I mean. That's why we 118 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 3: stood there and just and waited for the police to 119 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: rock up, made sure she was comfortable, and just sort 120 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: of did everything to keep the kids sort of their 121 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 3: mind off it, because they are obviously pretty shaken by 122 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 3: the whole ordeal, and so was the mum. So it's 123 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,559 Speaker 3: just what you do, isn't it to be a decent human? 124 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: You spot on, mate, You are spot on, but you're 125 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,239 Speaker 1: still our territory and of the week this week. Thank you, William. 126 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: Hang on the line for us, let us get your details. 127 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,559 Speaker 1: I really appreciate you getting in contact with us today 128 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: as well. 129 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: Now that thanks Thanks William.