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Kate Hawkesby: Who is going to take this smash and grab wave seriously?
I think they’re going to have to start offering danger money to work in a jewellery store these days.
These clowns in hoods and masks, they’re probably just teenagers trying it on, but they’re armed, they’re yelling at people as they smash up glass cases and demand jewellery, and that must be terrifying if you’re working in a mall not knowing how it could all end up.
Hamilton shoppers witnessed not just one, but two smash and grabs in one day at the weekend. Broad daylight, busy shopping areas, armed robbers these days do not care.
They don’t care how busy the mall is, how packed the shop…
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