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Darwin 24/7 Superstore's Usman Mughal says his business has been targeted by thieves multiple times this week · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now to tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more about what has happened over
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  Speaker 1: the last week or so, and I believe last night
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  Speaker 1: as well, from the twenty four to seven superstore. I
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  Speaker 1: believe I've got Usman on the line. Good morning to
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  Speaker 1: you Usman. Good morning now, Osmond. I know that there
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  Speaker 1: has been well i've certainly seen some CCTV footage of
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  Speaker 1: a group targeting your shop. Firstly, was that you or
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  Speaker 1: the staff member?
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  Speaker 2: No, there were the two staff members in the shop
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  Speaker 2: at that time, now, Osmond.
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  Speaker 1: Well, firstly, can I also ask as well? I know
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  Speaker 1: that there's been a number of incidents over the last week,
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  Speaker 1: but were you guys targeted last night as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And last night it was worst. They came with
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  Speaker 2: the knives, with the pocket knife and some cutters. You
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  Speaker 2: know you used the cutters to cut the boxes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two kids, Yeah, Oh my goodness, Osman, tell me
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  Speaker 1: what happened last night.
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  Speaker 2: There were two boys working last night. It was about
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  Speaker 2: it was in evening, about eight o'clock, eight point five,
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  Speaker 2: and some kids just came in the shop with the
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  Speaker 2: cutters and they just point the knife at the that
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  Speaker 2: cutter thing on on one of our employed and they
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  Speaker 2: just get shot, what's what's what's going on here? And
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  Speaker 2: then they just ran away, you know, they just get
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  Speaker 2: them scared. And then because they were very young kids
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  Speaker 2: like eleven years old or twelve years old, and there
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  Speaker 2: was two boys and two girls inside and two girls
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  Speaker 2: and one boy stayed outside the door.
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  Speaker 1: My god.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's getting worst and worst every day. It's
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  Speaker 2: very it's getting very hard to do business in Darwin
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  Speaker 2: like this because all the employers getting scared, so they say,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to work.
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  Speaker 1: Here, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: This is not a good place this and that, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you know there's already a shortage of stuff in
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  Speaker 2: all over Australia, so it's getting harder and harder now.
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  Speaker 1: Well and Osmond, you know, I watched that vision from
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  Speaker 1: last night and also some of the vision from earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week, and I thought to myself, the staff
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  Speaker 1: must feel really scared.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they.
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  Speaker 1: Are, mate. I you know, I really feel for you,
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  Speaker 1: same as you know, like anybody that is having to
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  Speaker 1: deal with this in your business and when you go
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  Speaker 1: to work. Now, what was the response. I'm assuming that
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  Speaker 1: you know that obviously last night when this well Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: what did they steal?
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  Speaker 2: They didn't steal anything. They just came in. There are
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  Speaker 2: some money and stuff. Yeah and yeah, but and so
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  Speaker 2: last night, but luckily the employees are yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well that yeah, exactly right. So did they did they
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  Speaker 1: end up getting any money or didn't get any in the.
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  Speaker 2: End, No, because they get because they were very small kids,
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  Speaker 2: like very young, So the employers get them scared, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like they were big boys. So so they just ran
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  Speaker 2: away and we just called the police immediately and we
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  Speaker 2: give them sciy with footage and stuff. Yeah and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah. It's getting worse, you know. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what happened. If tomorrow more kids come with
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  Speaker 2: a knife and stab someone other employees, Like, what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen? Who's responsible? You know, if they get one
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  Speaker 2: of us? So yeah, it's very nice. It's getting worse.
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  Speaker 2: Now we need something, We need protection, We need to
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  Speaker 2: do some police to do something for this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they should be banned from from from city, or they
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  Speaker 2: should get arrested. There should be something, but nothing's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. And osman, this is one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody's scratching their heads and asking at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time. I mean, if you've got a group
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  Speaker 1: of what sounds like seven kids, you know, they look
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  Speaker 1: incredibly young walking around the city. What of the night
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  Speaker 1: did this happen at.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening really between seven thirty, like after seven thirty,
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  Speaker 2: so the attack after seven thirty eight, after eight o'clock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that's you know, and.
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  Speaker 1: Like you think to yourself, why is a group of
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  Speaker 1: young kids walking around the streets anyway? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know that it's not late late at night, but it's
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  Speaker 1: still you know, it's still not not a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a school night. And then for them to be
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  Speaker 1: armed with a knife, and I think you mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming that you meet a Stanley knife, the ones that
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  Speaker 1: cut those boxes open. It's really it's dangerous, but it
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  Speaker 1: is also frightening for the staff.
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  Speaker 2: It's so frightening. They're very scared. And we are suffering,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we have we don't have because we're
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  Speaker 2: thinking all the time about these kids, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: mean when we are home, when we are anywhere, we
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  Speaker 2: need to think about it. We need to go to
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  Speaker 2: the shop to look after the boys, to ask them
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  Speaker 2: what if they come or you know, we're very scared
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  Speaker 2: at them. We have families, We need to give time
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  Speaker 2: to families. We have other things that the businesses, you know,
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's getting worse for us. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: are getting a mental issues. You know. I mean if
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  Speaker 2: you say, like if you if you catch kids and
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  Speaker 2: do something, they will have mental issues. But what about us?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody thinks about us. You know, if one of us
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  Speaker 2: is gets skilled, so who's who? What about them? But
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  Speaker 2: nobody cares about us. They just care about their kids. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But what they're doing, that's not a kid thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a normal thing. But but before before they
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  Speaker 2: used to come, they still drinks and shape that's fine, right,
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  Speaker 2: like that was not a big thing. But now they
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  Speaker 2: start coming inside the inside in behind the counter, they
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  Speaker 2: jump the counters. They're coming with their knives. It's worse.
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  Speaker 2: This is a serious problem. This is not a normal thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, no you're sport on. Yeah, yeah, it's not normal.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. You know, the community cares
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  Speaker 1: about you guys. Everybody out there listening this morning is
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  Speaker 1: going to be thinking exactly what you are. That it
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  Speaker 1: is not normal, It is not okay, and something needs
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  Speaker 1: to bloody well change. It's you know, we cannot have
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  Speaker 1: a situation where there is kids running around the streets
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  Speaker 1: in our capital city with knives, threatening staff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a business like yours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and police should put some extra effort on this event,
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  Speaker 2: on these things, because I mean, I know the police is.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. Sometimes they're helpful, you know, they help as
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  Speaker 2: much as they can. But they should put they should
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  Speaker 2: put extra effort on this incidence, on these sort of incidents,
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  Speaker 2: on these people, on these kids, you know, because it's
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  Speaker 2: not normally I would say, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's most certainly not. Yeah, it's most certainly not. And
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  Speaker 1: look it's on top of obviously the other anti social
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  Speaker 1: behavior issues that we're seeing around the city as well.
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  Speaker 1: Osmond last night, it's my understanding that a few businesses
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  Speaker 1: were tormented by these kids the same as what yours were.
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  Speaker 1: Is that is that what you're being told? Yeah? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know? Yeah? Do you happen to know where else
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  Speaker 1: had had these kids go in and threatened staff as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, First they went to the down twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: seven store on the Mitchell Street, Then they came to
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  Speaker 2: the twenty four to seven shop on the Knacky Street,
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  Speaker 2: Then they went to the minim Nucky Street. There is
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  Speaker 2: another small shop opposite to our shop. And then they
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  Speaker 2: went to the vintage sellers, the bottle shop, and they
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  Speaker 2: still they just told to wine bottles and then they
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  Speaker 2: just run away.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Osmond, I know that you mentioned just a short
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  Speaker 1: time ago that you know, you feel as though the
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  Speaker 1: authorities that everybody needs to look at things a little
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  Speaker 1: bit differently. Maybe people need to be banned from the city.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those listening this morning, how big an impact
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  Speaker 1: is this having on you, your staff and being able
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  Speaker 1: to run a business in our city.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a huge it's it's a big problem now,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I mean, of course it's it's it's because
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  Speaker 2: we need to put extra people. Now, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: caused us extra money. Like a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 2: they came, they break the window and it cost us
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  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars and we're losing so much money and
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  Speaker 2: we are losing our employees. So yeah, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: getting harder and harder every day. Now. Yeah. We need
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  Speaker 2: we need, we need someone to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Osmond, I appreciate you speaking to me this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: know that it's not easy. Please pass on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to your employees that we hope that they are okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really sorry, you know, to hear that this has
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  Speaker 1: happened to you guys, and you're so right. Something has
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  Speaker 1: got to change. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, usband, keep in contact.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep in contact with you. I appreciate you speaking
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  Speaker 1: to me this morning. Thank you,