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Member For Goyder Kezia Purick Urges The Rural Area To Stay Vigilant · 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 bit more about what's going on out in
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  Speaker 1: the rural area and some concerning behavior that's been seen
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  Speaker 1: out in the rural area. Is Kesier Puic, the independent
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  Speaker 1: member for Goida. Good morning, Kezier, morning, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's a good morning given rule there,
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  Speaker 2: but at least it's morning and that's a bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kesier, tell us exactly what has happened, because I
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  Speaker 1: saw you post on social media there's a property on
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  Speaker 1: gull Their Road and people outside with a massive knife.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct, Katie, and I stakenly said it was last night,
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  Speaker 2: but it was the night before, so for the people
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  Speaker 2: who are listening from the rule area. But it's indicative
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  Speaker 2: of a bigger problem. It could have been last night.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that we haven't heard about it. What happened
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  Speaker 2: not before is between two thirty in the morning about
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  Speaker 2: five o'clock these two in the photo on my social media,
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  Speaker 2: possibly others. What are going down Gunmere Road, the road
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  Speaker 2: and Levy Roads and going into properties trying to check
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  Speaker 2: on sheds, looking into cars, doors are open. If they
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  Speaker 2: took anything, I haven't heard. But the more serious part
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  Speaker 2: of it is they one of them was carrying a
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  Speaker 2: knife out, so that's nothing. There's nothing to suggest that
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  Speaker 2: the other low life skim bag didn't have some kind
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  Speaker 2: of weapon on him as well. They were well clad,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, they had hoods on. I couldn't see
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  Speaker 2: in the photos if they have gloves, but they are
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  Speaker 2: clearly organized. Now this matter has been reported to the police,
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  Speaker 2: and the police are well and truly onto it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: hoping that they can be caught sooner than later because
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  Speaker 2: this is just not acceenuble. The photos of that on
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  Speaker 2: my media from this home and gun their road is
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  Speaker 2: a family. They have two young teenagers and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: send the video, couldn't put the video on. They've seen
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  Speaker 2: checking the doors. They're checking the doors of the bedrooms
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  Speaker 2: of the children. Now imagine if child or adult woke
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  Speaker 2: up these people in their bedroom with a knife. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: apart from the fact that you know, you'd just be
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  Speaker 2: so shocked. Anything could have happened, you know, anything. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're carrying a weapon, I always maintain you intend
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  Speaker 2: to use it. If you're carrying a gun, you intend
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  Speaker 2: to use it. You're carrying a knife, you intend to
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  Speaker 2: use a Jemmy bar broken bottle. You're carrying it because
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  Speaker 2: you intend to use it for whatever reason, usually for harm.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a serious situation that's confronting people in
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  Speaker 2: the Ruin. I know elsewhere there's been a problem else casin,
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  Speaker 2: but Rule Air we I like to think we're a
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  Speaker 2: little bit insulated for lots of different reasons. And so
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  Speaker 2: I've written to the minister this morning first up, after
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  Speaker 2: I got this information, to ask for more patrols urgently
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  Speaker 2: into the Rule Air such that we can apprehend these two,
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  Speaker 2: if not more, criminals, because that's what they are. They're criminals.
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  Speaker 2: They're carrying a sharp long knife in public, yeshing to
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  Speaker 2: do something with.
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  Speaker 3: It tasier do you know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not that it makes it any better, But
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  Speaker 1: do you know if these criminals have been able to
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  Speaker 1: get into any of the homes of those out in
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  Speaker 1: the rural area and if items have been stolen?
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I don't know that. I do know
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  Speaker 2: they did open cars, and yes they were into cars
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  Speaker 2: and maybe took things out of cars that are in cars.
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  Speaker 2: Rural people do tend to have more dogs and larger
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  Speaker 2: dogs in town people. I believe perhaps they were scared
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  Speaker 2: of and also sense the lights and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: But this property in question, the sense of light came
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  Speaker 2: on for the garage area, they didn't even flinch. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't even worried about, you know, a sense of light.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously knowing they'd be CCTV footage, they just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: care in their thinking there were no consequences one for
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  Speaker 2: doing what they're doing, carrying an offensive and a nasty
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  Speaker 2: weapon too that they're being viewed and filmed on footage.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't care. Because I think I heard on
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  Speaker 2: some news stories were caught somewhere and they both had
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  Speaker 2: ankle bracelets on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've read a message out about that just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago or a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 1: last hour about the buff club being broken into again.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, you know, that's the concern people have got keasier.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is because it's not. It should be, And
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  Speaker 2: I know the government's talking about changing some more bits
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  Speaker 2: of the bail looks and adding bits to offensive and
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  Speaker 2: prohibitive weapons. Any weapon, any item that's been used as
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  Speaker 2: a weapon should be a presumption against bail, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a broken bottle, a tomahawk, a machete, a lumper wood.
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  Speaker 2: If you've used something to cause harm to someone else
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  Speaker 2: and do cause harm, no bail, Yeah, the jails get fuller. Well,
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  Speaker 2: tough pities, so jails get fuller, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 2: an uncomfortable life, which it should be, so you don't
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  Speaker 2: just keep poking around the edges with this bail stuff,
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister, it's not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: Well and Keizia, no doubt. We'll talk more about that
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow during the week. That was as well after the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Ministry, given that bit of a time frame earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week. But it sounds like it's also a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a warning to our mates out in the
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  Speaker 1: rural area that you're going to need to take some
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  Speaker 1: extra care if you've got people out there loitering around
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  Speaker 1: trying to get in and they're armed with knives.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct, Katy. This happened about two years ago. There
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  Speaker 2: was a group of people who were going around the
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  Speaker 2: Best Creek, I guess because it's the closest to sort
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  Speaker 2: of you know, pool linga kind of area, and they
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  Speaker 2: did leave knives around in driveways where they are looking
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  Speaker 2: to steal stuff out of cars, and you know, weever
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  Speaker 2: sheds or whatever. So yes, so people listening, do lock
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  Speaker 2: your house and take the keys out of your car,
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  Speaker 2: and make sure if you've got dogs and you hear
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  Speaker 2: any kind of noise, let them out, let them out
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  Speaker 2: and scare them off, and turn on your lights on.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I've said, turn all your outside lights on
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  Speaker 2: and then straight away ring the police, ring the police, everyone,
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  Speaker 2: because we have to get the data to show this
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  Speaker 2: government that there is a serious problem in our town.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you call the police, we won't get the data.
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  Speaker 2: So people could do that, Ring the police, ring triple zero.
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  Speaker 2: You are scared there's an intruder with a knife, for example.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, well this is the thing and on keys here.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be reported to the police. They need
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  Speaker 1: to know exactly what's going on, they need to know
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  Speaker 1: where they need to send their resources. But also it
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  Speaker 1: has to be included in those crime statistics.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got to see some change here.
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  Speaker 1: We you know, the last thing that we want is
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  Speaker 1: people getting around with bloody knives.
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  Speaker 2: That is frightening, Katie, and I know people have talked
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  Speaker 2: about this. They did change the laws in England and
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  Speaker 2: also Scotland and probably elsewhere where carrying a knife in
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  Speaker 2: public was an offense. Now people raise the issue about
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  Speaker 2: pocket knives and things about nature which are used in
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  Speaker 2: you know, bush people and come to people of parstal people.
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  Speaker 2: You can get exemptions, of course, you can get exemptions
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  Speaker 2: to any law. So I think the government, I think
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about this previously, the government seriously needs to
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  Speaker 2: look at changing whichever legislation it is to have the
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  Speaker 2: carrying of a weapon such as a knife or a
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  Speaker 2: shitty in public an offense and a serious offense, not
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  Speaker 2: just that, oh you're a naughty person, you shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: had that. A serious offense, punishable byte, I don't know what. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to stop. There got to be some strong
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  Speaker 2: laws and strong penalties for these for these people who
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  Speaker 2: are just running rampant across our town and our rural area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing. And Kes, look, I think
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  Speaker 1: you know they's you. You're potentially putting yourself at risk
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  Speaker 1: out in the rural area too, because I know people
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  Speaker 1: have got bloody big dogs out there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's other things we've got in the rural are Katie,
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  Speaker 2: which I won't go into, but i'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: People come onto my bloody properly with my parents and
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  Speaker 2: my mum and my other sisters. I said, they'll get
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  Speaker 2: what's coming for them, that's for sure. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: suggesting we should do anything illy.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely not.
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  Speaker 2: But you come, you come and looking to harm my family.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and bloody stop you. That's
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  Speaker 2: all I'm going to say, Katie. And I think people
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  Speaker 2: should be very vigilant and make sure you just lock
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  Speaker 2: and look look after everything on your property and animals
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  Speaker 2: and humans, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, well, Kesier Puric, We'll see you tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 1: for the week that was.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks very much. Good on you, Keasier, and.
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  Speaker 1: Good to catch up with Keesy Epuric there to find
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  Speaker 1: out exactly what is going on in the rural area.
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  Speaker 1: I know that plenty of you listen out in the
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  Speaker 1: rural area, and you know this is the thing. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure that we're safe, no matter where
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  Speaker 1: we live, no matter what.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the territory we live.
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  Speaker 1: But absolutely mortifying to see that there are people getting
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  Speaker 1: around with knives, snooping around houses out in the rural area.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's like the worrying part here is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that people are armed with weapons. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about butter knives, but even if we are,
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  Speaker 1: they can cause serious harm. We need to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that there is some really serious change when it comes to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this issue that we've got with knives being
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  Speaker 1: used and the Chief Minister's timeline that she provided earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week.
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  Speaker 3: I know, to so many of you it is just
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  Speaker 3: not good enough now.
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  Speaker 1: Greg in Parapi's message through and said, Kezi Epuric is
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  Speaker 1: a legend.
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  Speaker 3: I wish she was my sister.
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  Speaker 1: I met her niece actually on Friday night and she
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  Speaker 1: was a legend as well. So we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a break coming your way very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually going to be speaking to Melanderie McCarthy
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  Speaker 3: Lyndon Jonesie Jones, and Amanda Lave