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Local father Luke Roe explains how his family have been impacted after having their car stolen · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We did learn on Friday about a family who had
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  Speaker 1: their car stolen which contained a number of items, as
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  Speaker 1: I understand it for their son who does have special needs.
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  Speaker 1: Now I understand that they have since been recovered or
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle has since been recovered, but it has indeed
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  Speaker 1: been damaged. Now joining me on the line right now
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  Speaker 1: is is Luke.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Luke.
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  Speaker 3: Hell okay, Loke.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that it was your vehicle that was stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was stolin. So we had the intruder coming
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  Speaker 3: to our home and steal the keys and take the
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  Speaker 3: car from our house in Jingerly, and they cut all
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  Speaker 3: of the sort of straps on my son's special needs
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  Speaker 3: seat and dumped those on the side of the road
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  Speaker 3: and then took the car. And it was like hated.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to some some sort of tip off to the
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  Speaker 3: police from some members of Palmistan after hearing I guess
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  Speaker 3: your message on Friday and also some Facebook messages, so
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  Speaker 3: the community that helped the police retrieve the car. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the equipment inside it was sort of damaged, and also
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  Speaker 3: the car itself had all of the seat belts cart oh,
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  Speaker 3: so unusable at the moment, we're just it's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mate, I'm so sorry to hear that, because some
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  Speaker 1: one of our cour one of our listeners had called
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  Speaker 1: through to let us know what had happened, and immediately,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we read that message out and I just thought, I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was really hoped that you'd be able
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  Speaker 1: to get your vehicle back, and I had hoped that.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be able to get it back without it being damaged.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds as though that's not the case in terms
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  Speaker 1: of that damage.
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  Speaker 2: How tough is it going to be for you to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get this stuff fixed.
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  Speaker 3: It's sort of all very specialized equipment, so we're in
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  Speaker 3: discussions with the sort of the special needs to supply
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  Speaker 3: is now to see what wait times and everything. But
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  Speaker 3: it was six months to get the chair in general,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully it's not that long without it. So at
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  Speaker 3: this stage, I'm not sure how long it's going to
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  Speaker 3: take to get it repaired. The car has been detailed
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  Speaker 3: and the filth that was inside it has been cleaned
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  Speaker 3: out by detailer over the weekend, so we got that
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  Speaker 3: done pretty quickly. But yeah, the damage to the car
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  Speaker 3: seat belts and the child restraints, we're not sure how
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  Speaker 3: long it's going to take, hopefully quick, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, can you just talk us through what that means
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  Speaker 1: for your young fellow.
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  Speaker 2: How old is he?
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  Speaker 3: He's five and a half, so yeah, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: use that car to take him to and from school
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  Speaker 3: in at Memelak School in Alowa. So without that, we're
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  Speaker 3: sort of putting him in car seats that aren't quite
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  Speaker 3: suitable for him. And it requires a lot more physical
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  Speaker 3: lifting from myself. So I need to take a bit
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  Speaker 3: more time off work to do that lifting because it's, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's not as easy to get him in and out
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  Speaker 3: of a standard child's booster seat. So yeah, for the
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  Speaker 3: length of time we don't have the seat, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to have to be taking a lot more time off
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  Speaker 3: my work. And then yeah, he's also not yeah, not
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  Speaker 3: a comfort ball in the seat. So oh, it's pretty
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  Speaker 3: distressing to not have that, you know, to not have
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  Speaker 3: that seat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a bloody stress on your like, it's
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  Speaker 1: a stress on the whole family and a totally unnecessary
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  Speaker 1: stress that is out of your control. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have got no control over that. Someone's pinched your
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  Speaker 1: car and you know to then to then cut the seatbelt,
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  Speaker 1: particularly on that special chair, is just beyond comprehendible.
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  Speaker 3: Really, it truly is. Yeah, once you've already nixed someone's car,
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  Speaker 3: you think that's enough. But yeah, to leave them then return, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: return it. But yeah, for us to get it back
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  Speaker 3: and find that it was damaged in that way, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: pretty distressing. And like I said, it was, it was
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  Speaker 3: left in a pretty gross way inside too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just yeah, and it's like it's not on.
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  Speaker 1: It's not on for so many reasons. But it makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel really sad that your little families had to
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  Speaker 1: go through that, and particularly the young fella. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're obviously needing to take that extra time off work,
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  Speaker 1: and you're a good dad. That's what wonderful good dads do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we all step up to the plate when
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  Speaker 1: we have to. But the fact that none of this
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  Speaker 1: has been in your control I find really disappointing. Luke,
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  Speaker 1: do you have any idea how like, how much any
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  Speaker 1: of this is going to cost you?
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  Speaker 3: Not at the moment. Yeah, I mean, obviously we can.
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  Speaker 3: There was a there was a baby car seat, so
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  Speaker 3: that's easy to sort of get replaced. And yeah, they're
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  Speaker 3: sort of in the six to seven hundred dollar range.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the repair on the rest of the car,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the detailing six hundred dollars the car seat
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  Speaker 3: belt and that. Yeah, I don't know just yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, early day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, please keep in contact with us and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I do let us know how you know, how it
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  Speaker 1: all progresses. Mate, Is this the first time that your
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  Speaker 1: family has sort of been, you know, victims of crime.
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  Speaker 3: I mean on a long territory and we have been
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  Speaker 3: broken into in the past. And yeah, and also more recently,
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  Speaker 3: my brother in law's grandmother has been assaulted in Nightcliff
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  Speaker 3: who has been on the news. She's ninety five years
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  Speaker 3: old and was sort of assaulted in her own home.
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  Speaker 3: Someone came in to steal her purse. So yeah, close.
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  Speaker 3: Just recently, in the last week, there's been a bit
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  Speaker 3: of yeah, oh that's bloody terrible amongst our amongst our
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  Speaker 3: close family and Dawn here and yeah, always unfortunately, never
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  Speaker 3: too far from in the territory, but yeah, just especially
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  Speaker 3: in the last week week and a half, it's been
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  Speaker 3: pretty close to our family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did. I saw.
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  Speaker 1: The ninety five year old will your brother in law's grandma.
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  Speaker 1: I saw her in the paper, and she seemed like
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  Speaker 1: such a tough old stick.
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  Speaker 2: She seemed like a wonderful woman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's she's always sort of been coming up
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  Speaker 3: to the territory during the cooler months. Just recently, in
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  Speaker 3: the last year and a half has moved up here
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  Speaker 3: to get a bit more support from her son, my
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  Speaker 3: brother in law's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, mate, it's not a good welcome to the territory
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  Speaker 3: for her. It's not sort of a good sort of
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  Speaker 3: welcome to Jingly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I really feel for you, and you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a huge amount that I can do to help.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, if there is, please do tell me.
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  Speaker 1: But every week I do give out our territory and
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  Speaker 1: of the Week. Now I know it's only Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a very early call for me, But mate,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to give you our territory and of
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  Speaker 1: the week because it sounds as though you could use
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a luck change and it is. It
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  Speaker 1: is a beautiful fifty dollars voucher for Malone's Butchery out
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  Speaker 1: there at Gateway. They're a wonderful butcher and they do
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic job. So I know it's only a small gesture,
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  Speaker 1: but one which I hope that you and your family
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  Speaker 1: are able to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: So I do want to make you our territory and
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  Speaker 2: of the week.
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  Speaker 1: Mate.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, Luke. Well, let me let me keep
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  Speaker 2: you on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make sure that we've got your details so that
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  Speaker 1: you are able to go out there and collect that voucher.
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  Speaker 2: But please keep us up to date.
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  Speaker 1: As to how things progress with the vehicle as well.
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  Speaker 1: And if there is any way that you know, me
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  Speaker 1: or any of our listeners are able to help do
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  Speaker 1: let us know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, thank you again for just putting it out
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  Speaker 3: there because that's that community involvement. As how we got
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  Speaker 3: the car back, Yeah, that was damaged that it could
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  Speaker 3: have been a lot worse if they held on to
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  Speaker 3: it for a longer period of time. So thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much as well.
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  Speaker 2: No worries at all.
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  Speaker 1: And look, I always think, you know, for the bad
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  Speaker 1: things that we talk about, you know, for the bad
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  Speaker 1: situations that some of us go through, like the one
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  Speaker 1: that you've just gone through, the thing that always makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel you know, all this makes me feel better
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  Speaker 1: and certainly brings a smile on my face is the
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  Speaker 1: way that the community rallies together. And and you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I think when people heard that the vehicle had
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  Speaker 1: been stolen and the impact that it was going to
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  Speaker 1: have on your little boy, a lot of people probably
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  Speaker 1: wanted to try their best to help however they could.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luke, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time this morning, mate, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for having a chat with me.
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  Speaker 3: You too, thank you, thank you.