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Katie Woolf spoke with Territorian of the Week William who helped a woman and her kids after her car was stolen · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you were listening to the show a little bit
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  Speaker 1: earlier this morning, you would have heard Crystal Gordon, our
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  Speaker 1: news director, covering off on the fact that there was
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  Speaker 1: car stolen in Palmerston yesterday and well a seven year
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  Speaker 1: old had been in that vehicle and jumped out of
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  Speaker 1: the car.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily before this.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's unclear whether it was a twelve or thirteen
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  Speaker 1: year old who ended up stealing that car. But we
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  Speaker 1: spoke about a little bit earlier and a witness has
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  Speaker 1: given us a call and William joins us on the
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  Speaker 1: line right now.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning William, Good morning mate. How are you not
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  Speaker 2: too bad? What happened yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was a fear old ordeal. We sort of
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  Speaker 3: parked up at the Bakewell shops there, heading towards the Chemist.
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  Speaker 3: We saw the little girl just running across for the screaming,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't for the thinkinging of it. Still, the month
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  Speaker 3: sort of ran out of the Chemist towards the car.
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  Speaker 3: Really branded. I saw that turned and was watching what
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  Speaker 3: she was doing, just running towards the car. So I
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  Speaker 3: started running sort of towards it. But then next second
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  Speaker 3: car just to golf locker rocket.
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  Speaker 2: Bloody hell.
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  Speaker 1: So you were right there obviously as this was unfolding.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was sort of fairly sort of close by.
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  Speaker 3: It sort of happened really sort of quickly. That the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing was just making sure that you know that
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  Speaker 3: the little girls were were okay, and sort of no
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  Speaker 3: one else was in the car. That was there big concern?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, William, So was there one little girl? More?
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  Speaker 3: There was two girls. One was in the shop with
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  Speaker 3: the mum already and there was just the other girl
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  Speaker 3: sort of sitting in the car waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh was that little one okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty shaken up. We sort of went and bought
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  Speaker 3: some lollies and stuff just to try let their spirits
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  Speaker 3: and try to take their mind off the ordeal that happened.
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  Speaker 3: They took him a bit for the sort of calm down,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, everything sort of simmered down and sort of
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  Speaker 3: came good.
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  Speaker 2: How was that.
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  Speaker 3: Mum really distraught? Really really distraught? Obviously during the incidents,
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  Speaker 3: she sort of lost her phone, so straight away we're
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  Speaker 3: on the phone the police getting that sorted. She was
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  Speaker 3: really distraught and you couldn't understand she was just absolutely devastated.
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  Speaker 3: So we stayed there well after till the police wrapped
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  Speaker 3: up to make sure she was okay and nothing else
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  Speaker 3: was sort of happened.
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  Speaker 1: She must have been absolutely beside herself. You know, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be your first thought would be making sure that your
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  Speaker 1: children are okay, and then thinking, oh, my goodness, what
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  Speaker 1: has unfolded here, and realizing that your car's gone.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent. It happened so quick, like a blink
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  Speaker 3: of an eye, and the individual was off to find out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a parent or anything, but I really I
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  Speaker 3: was horrified to myself, you know, just such a thinking
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  Speaker 3: you're doing just a quick, simple task and all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden that could have gone south very quickly, very badly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, William, we've had a couple of people
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  Speaker 1: message in this morning and say, you know, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: leave your seven year old in the car. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be really honest here and say that I have
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  Speaker 1: left both of my kids in.
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  Speaker 2: The car with it locked, but with it on. They're
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  Speaker 2: a little bit older.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, very often you've got a situation where
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  Speaker 1: you might have a child that's sick in this case
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  Speaker 1: without you know, like without knowing anything about it. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if that mum's going into the chemist to actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get something for a sick child. And
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  Speaker 1: you think I'm just going to race in and get
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  Speaker 1: what I need and then race out, and to have
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  Speaker 1: something like this happen is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, why should I have to lock my car? You
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like it's getting disgusting. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I can understand, you know, the mother going in there
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  Speaker 3: seven years old, you know, just a quick trip, and
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  Speaker 3: then twenty seconds later this sort was I felt so
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  Speaker 3: sorrowfal Yeah, it's pretty scary that this sort of happened
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  Speaker 3: broad daylight. It wasn't like it was three in the morning, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, like.
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  Speaker 1: That's you know, that is the thing that I found
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  Speaker 1: most mortifying is I thought exactly the same you know
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, Like I think it was five forty
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  Speaker 1: or something. They had told us the police at there,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's early in the afternoon. I've
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  Speaker 1: got friends that live just near there. It's their regular supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: It's an area where you would think that it would
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  Speaker 1: be okay, Like I know that we all worry about
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  Speaker 1: these issues with crime, and then to find out that
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  Speaker 1: the police ended up apprehending at twelve and thirteen year
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  Speaker 1: old who were allegedly chroming in that car at the
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  Speaker 1: golf course.
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  Speaker 2: It's mortifying.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty disgusting to think. The biggest issue is there's
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  Speaker 3: no consequences. Nothing's going to happen, so nothing's going to
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  Speaker 3: stop it from happening again. Yeah, someone, someone's going to
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  Speaker 3: get killed, someone's going to die, and then who's going
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  Speaker 3: to blame her? Everyone's going to be pointing figures and
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  Speaker 3: the same routine, William.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, you and your partner have done the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you and your wife, it sounds like you've done
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  Speaker 1: exactly the right thing helping this poor mum and her kids. Yeah, mate,
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  Speaker 1: I know you haven't contacted us for this, but we
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  Speaker 1: want to make you our territory and of the week
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  Speaker 1: for being good bloke. And you know, like at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, when I hear stories like this,
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  Speaker 1: and when you hear this news start to flow through
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, you start to feel really upset, thinking
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  Speaker 1: what's happening to this place? And then I hear from
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  Speaker 1: someone like you, and I think, do you know what,
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  Speaker 1: for every bad situation that we have, there's someone really
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  Speaker 1: bloody good out there doing the right thing, and that's
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  Speaker 1: you and your wife.
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  Speaker 3: My big thing is what happens theref was my wife,
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  Speaker 3: my child, you know what I mean. That's why we
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  Speaker 3: stood there and just and waited for the police to
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  Speaker 3: rock up, made sure she was comfortable, and just sort
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  Speaker 3: of did everything to keep the kids sort of their
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  Speaker 3: mind off it, because they are obviously pretty shaken by
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  Speaker 3: the whole ordeal, and so was the mum. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just what you do, isn't it to be a decent human?
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  Speaker 1: You spot on, mate, You are spot on, but you're
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  Speaker 1: still our territory and of the week this week. Thank you, William.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on the line for us, let us get your details.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you getting in contact with us today
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now that thanks Thanks William.