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Car break ins · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: I got some crime statistics I want to share with
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Speaker 1: you out of DC the week before the Trump federalization
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Speaker 1: of law enforcement and the week after, according to the
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Speaker 1: DC Police Union, you may find that you're a bit surprised,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's wonderful news as far as I'm concerned.
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Speaker 1: First though, a bit of minutia, if you will. This
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Speaker 1: is one of those stupid little things I just thought
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Speaker 1: about today and we ought to fix it. What I
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Speaker 1: am speaking of is receipts. Receipts as in those things
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Speaker 1: you get when you buy something at the store and
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Speaker 1: that comes out of the cash register. Any idea what
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Speaker 1: I'm going to gripe about on this? You have any
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Speaker 1: idea you know where I'm going? Any thoughts, any.
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Speaker 2: Cool looking aptore No, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: If you need your receipts, if you keep receipts, tax purposes, deductions,
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Speaker 1: proof of whatever, these disappearing ink laser paper receipts need
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Speaker 1: to be outlawed.
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Speaker 2: Oh they do, kind of just because I've found them
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Speaker 2: in my drawer, like old receipts and they're just kind
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Speaker 2: of white with they kind of disappear the ink on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't read them after, you know, The reason
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Speaker 1: I say this is because I had a couple in
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Speaker 1: the in the car that I want to use at
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Speaker 1: the end of the year, and I can't even tell
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Speaker 1: you what the numbers are.
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Speaker 3: Then why are you keeping receipts for like three bodis?
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Speaker 1: They're thermals and no, they were a little more than that,
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Speaker 1: but you know it's thermal paper. It's like the old
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties thermofacts paper and uh, and they they fade away.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to use receipts to prove expenses or
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Speaker 1: whatever tax deduction and stuff, they should last.
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Speaker 2: They you know, you're gonna have to start getting cases
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Speaker 2: and like put them under certain lighting and temperatures to
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Speaker 2: make them last longer than a couple of months.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there should be something some way to know that,
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Speaker 1: you know, Okay, the print on the papers at least
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Speaker 1: going to last a year now, you know. Back in
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Speaker 1: I can find you a big bear receipt from a
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Speaker 1: mom's grocery trip in nineteen seventy five. I can still
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Speaker 1: tell you what she bought and what it cost her.
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Speaker 1: But stuff that I bought two weeks ago, I can't
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Speaker 1: tell you what's on the receipt, And I just as
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Speaker 1: silly as it sounds, it just occurred to me today
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Speaker 1: there really needs to be some uniformity there, especially when
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Speaker 1: those receipts are something you might be using for an
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Speaker 1: official government purpose, like filing your taxes.
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Speaker 2: I could totally see like a mega corporation selling you
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Speaker 2: things and charging you like an extra seventy five cents
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Speaker 2: for good receipts.
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Speaker 1: There were what do you call them scanners out there,
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Speaker 1: and I haven't seen. They advertised him for a while
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Speaker 1: pretty heavily, and then they stopped where you could just
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Speaker 1: put the receipt through and it would automatically, it would
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Speaker 1: scan the receipt and automatically take the information from the
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Speaker 1: receipt and put it in the appropriate folder, so that
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Speaker 1: you could say, Okay, food expenses, call them up, gas expenses,
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Speaker 1: call them up, and get your it's a great idea.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if those just flopped because nobody wanted them.
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Speaker 1: They were rather expensive. I do recall that, and that's
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Speaker 1: a great thing. And people go, well, just take a
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Speaker 1: picture of the receipt. Then you got to sort through
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Speaker 1: the pictures and put them in the cloud or put
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Speaker 1: them in a folder on your phone, and then hope
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Speaker 1: you don't lose your phone or drop it in the
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Speaker 1: toilet like microw or something like that. It just wouldn't
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Speaker 1: it be easier just to do it right the first
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Speaker 1: time instead of coming up with ways to fix the
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Speaker 1: fact that it wasn't done right the first time. It
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Speaker 1: can't be that big of a deal. There are other
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Speaker 1: stores out there, little corner carryouts that are still using
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Speaker 1: your old style paper with a blue print on it
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Speaker 1: to show you what you bought, Little mom and pop
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Speaker 1: pleases that are still doing that. So it can't be
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Speaker 1: a matter of cost. If they can do it. The
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Speaker 1: big companies can do it, The big box stores can
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Speaker 1: do it, the gas stations can do it. And I
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Speaker 1: know it sounds silly with you know, all the other
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Speaker 1: things in the world that we have to worry about
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Speaker 1: to consider to fix too, But but it popped into
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Speaker 1: my head this afternoon as I pulled those receipts out
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Speaker 1: and thought, this is stupid. I needed both of these
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Speaker 1: and now I can't see. There's no numbers on here.
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Speaker 1: I can see I can barely identify where they are from,
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Speaker 1: because I guess the heat in the car or whatever
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Speaker 1: takes the takes the print away. Anyway, that I had
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Speaker 1: to say that because it was one of those things Washington,
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Speaker 1: d C. It is on my mind. We were talking
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Speaker 1: to Brian Steele when I was in here with Mark
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Speaker 1: earlier about the the seventy five, seventy five cars that
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Speaker 1: were broken into down in the Grove City area right
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Speaker 1: on the fringe the northwestern fringe of Grove City, over
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Speaker 1: there by Central Crossing High School. Nice area. I've had
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Speaker 1: had friends that live over there. I've sold a couple
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Speaker 1: of houses in that community. It's a nice community. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would make sense because I mean, if you're going
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Speaker 1: to break into seventy five cars to steal stuff, you're
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Speaker 1: not going someplace where everybody drives. You know, a nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty four you go. You're going to go someplace where
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Speaker 1: there are nicer cars that may have nicer stuff worth stealing.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to take the risk, you want, you
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Speaker 1: want the bounty, so you know, it's it's not casting
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Speaker 1: aspersions on that community at all. I love Grove City.
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Speaker 1: I definitely love Grove City. But seventy five cars and
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Speaker 1: nobody heard anything. That's what gets me. Car windows were
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Speaker 1: broken out. You know that this had to be there
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Speaker 1: had to be at least ten people involved, I would think.
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Speaker 3: I mean seventy five cars. Yeah, boom boom boom boo
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Speaker 3: boom boom, so it has to be at least ten,
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Speaker 3: less than ten people.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't have time to go through the car to
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Speaker 1: find out if there's anything to steal. All you could
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Speaker 1: do is break the window out.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you had seventy five cars lined up
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Speaker 2: at night down like one road, maybe I could run
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Speaker 2: with a bat and I hit a window every time,
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Speaker 2: but you couldn't look for anything. It would take way
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Speaker 2: more than one or ten people to get anything of
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Speaker 2: value out of the car.
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Speaker 1: Right right, And as I said, we had Brian Steele
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Speaker 1: on I you know, inferred to him, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: seem to want to disagree. This is about guns. I
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Speaker 1: really believe it's about guns. One of my cars, the
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Speaker 1: old Beater that I drive all the time, I leave
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Speaker 1: it unlocked. There's nothing in there to steal. See, I've
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Speaker 1: got I've actually got a note in there that says, seriously,
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Speaker 1: if there was something worth stealing with the car, be unlocked.
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Speaker 1: Because you know, even now and then, the bad guys
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Speaker 1: are able to read. But every time somebody gets into
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Speaker 1: the car, the glove compartment is open. That's how I
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Speaker 1: know somebody's been in the car. They always go to
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Speaker 1: the glove compartment. They're looking for a gun. That's exactly
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Speaker 1: what they're doing because it's something that they can sell.
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Speaker 1: They know there's a demand for they can get rid
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Speaker 1: of it quick, make a little money, go buy their drugs.
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Speaker 1: So guns are what they're looking for. And I keep
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Speaker 1: discouraging you know, friends, family, anybody that'll listen to me.
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Speaker 1: If you're one of these people that you know, if
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Speaker 1: you have a weapon in the car, even if it's
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Speaker 1: in a gun safe, locked up under a mat, in
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Speaker 1: the locked glove compartment, in the locked car, whatever, if
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Speaker 1: they are inclined to believe there's a weapon in there,
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Speaker 1: some idiot's going to break into your vehicle. So if
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Speaker 1: you've got the you know, the NRA sticker on the
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Speaker 1: back window or PNI vega protected by schmidten wesh, you're
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Speaker 1: just saying, hey, please come break into my car.
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Speaker 3: You really are.
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Speaker 1: It's the same way I feel about the open carry.
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Speaker 1: I know it's legal, I know you can do it
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Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio. I just strongly disagree with
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Speaker 1: the concept for your personal safety If you're walking around
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Speaker 1: and you're carrying a weapon out in the open and
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Speaker 1: somebody wants to jump you while you're pumping gas some night,
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Speaker 1: what do you think they're going to do. First, They're
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Speaker 1: going to restrain that arm to make sure you cannot
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Speaker 1: reach the weapon, and they're going to take that weapon
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Speaker 1: when it's out in the open like that, you're painting
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Speaker 1: a target on yourself. Concealed is the way to carry
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Speaker 1: if you're going to carry, And it doesn't make sense
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Speaker 1: to advertise to the bad guys because, frankly, here's the problem.
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Speaker 1: It's not about you being scared of the bad guys.
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Speaker 1: It's about the bad guys not being scared of anything.
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Speaker 1: How many times if you're on these community forums on
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Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram or next door or whatever, how many
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Speaker 1: times do you see people posting videos from their security
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Speaker 1: camera of somebody coming up on their porch and stealing
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Speaker 1: their furniture or taking lawn equipment, or I've seen people
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Speaker 1: stealing plants off of porches and they look up, they'll
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Speaker 1: smile at the camera. It's like they're taking their senior picture.
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Speaker 1: They will smile at the camera. Why because there's no
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Speaker 1: repercussions for it. It's not like they're going to jail
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Speaker 1: or anything. If they happen to get caught by the police,
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Speaker 1: it's not because they stole your law and furniture. It's
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Speaker 1: because they got caught doing something else and they ran
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Speaker 1: them for Warrens and found out they had one. But
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Speaker 1: the police aren't going to go chase down somebody who
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Speaker 1: took the petunia basket off your porch. They do have,
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Speaker 1: you know, a few other things they have to handle,
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Speaker 1: and these people know that. They know that, so they
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Speaker 1: fear no repercussions. Therefore they keep doing what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: And you have a beautiful picture, beautiful video of them
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Speaker 1: doing it doesn't matter. It absolutely does not matter to them.
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Speaker 1: I I don't know if I'm mad, sad, or if
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Speaker 1: I'm just to the point where I'm completely disaffected by it.
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Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where if I could
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Speaker 1: wave a wand and fix it, I would. I just
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Speaker 1: I don't own that particular wand. Just a couple of
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Speaker 1: nights ago, somebody could going down the street where I live,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if they were together or not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not positive. I watched camera footage there was a
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Speaker 1: woman that looked like she was probably strung out on something,
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Speaker 1: and there was a guy following her, probably i'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say about thirty feet behind. They seemed to be in league.
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Speaker 1: I mean that thing, you know, that vibe was just
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Speaker 1: there and she is walking by, and she's walking by vehicles,
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Speaker 1: she's grabbing door handles. Now, the queen happened to be
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Speaker 1: sitting on the front porch in the dark, no porch
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Speaker 1: light on, and saw her come up to my car
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Speaker 1: and go toward the door handle with the handout and
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Speaker 1: ask rather abruptly and loudly from the darkness, are you stupid?
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at you. And the girl, you know,
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Speaker 1: staggered on down the road and the guy went behind her,
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Speaker 1: and they checked no more cars in that block.
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Speaker 3: No, because they knew somebody was looking.
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Speaker 2: Man, that sounds like some drug cartel smuggling drugs in
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Speaker 2: through a submarine type of operation.
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Speaker 3: Just highly advanced. Yeah, it's going on.
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Speaker 1: And you know you see people, you know, grown adult
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Speaker 1: men riding little boy's bicycles while pulling a lawnmower behind them,
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Speaker 1: or carrying somebody's weed whacker, and you're like, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just stole that or the guys who drive down
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Speaker 1: the road riding a bicycle while having another bicycle that
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Speaker 1: they're holding next to them pulling along with them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw some because I ride a bike sometimes
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Speaker 2: around my neighborhood. But I saw something like a meme
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Speaker 2: that said the only people who ride bikes anymore are
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Speaker 2: nine year olds and crackheaded men who steal things.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really, it's and it's an unfortunate thing. Now,
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Speaker 1: we do have a lot of bike riders in my
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Speaker 1: neighborhood that are, you know, nice, nice suburban normal people.
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Speaker 1: What I've noticed about them is there's this this trend
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody's on old bikes. Have you
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Speaker 1: noticed that in your neighborhood?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the old uh.
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Speaker 1: Though, you know Panama Jackson beach cruisers, that was the name.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if they remake them and people
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Speaker 2: sell them or.
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Speaker 1: Some of them are legitimately nineteen sixty five bikes. But
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Speaker 1: there are, you know, retro bikes out there being made now.
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Speaker 1: They seem to be very popular.
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Speaker 2: I have my BMX bike from nineteen ninety six, but
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Speaker 2: it's nothing like a nineteen fifty beach cruiser. Those things
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Speaker 2: are heavy too, aren't they for a bicycle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know why those are suddenly
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Speaker 1: popular again, but they are. But you know, the bad
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Speaker 1: guys are rarely on those. They're usually on, you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said, the twenty inch kids BMX bike.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I see a lot of high schoolers wearing
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Speaker 2: mullets now too, So no, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Really yeah, well there's something good coming in. I'm just saying. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: if you happen to see anybody checking your door handle,
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Speaker 1: you know, feel free to yell at them. Because it
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Speaker 1: worked at least for the Queen. Then again, now I
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Speaker 1: think about it, she is kind of scared.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna mess with her. I know that much.