Kylee Dennis
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's not a porn, like O-R-N.
I don't know how that would have worked with a high crime rate around, you know.
It was the first of its kind in Australia.
So we had four shops and
So the four regions, three operatives in each region, and we just opened up this daggy pawn shop on the side street because we had high incidence of break-and-enters, armed robbery, anything that was within the property fences, and it was out of control.
And I do believe it may have started in the UK on a smaller level, and whoever came up and said, well, here's a great initiative β
We will open up four pawn shops and we will collect everything.
And we did.
We collected everything that was legitimate and also stolen.
Yes.
Yep.
And because they would just talk to you.
Yeah.
Because you'd be sitting down with them and they'd come in a couple of times and some were legitimate people.
So, you know, you just said, oh, okay, I just want to, you know, put this for three months.
And we ran the business like a business.
Yeah.
So you still had to ticket everything.
So people still had to have their β if they wanted to just β
get a bit of a loan and we had to do the loan and everything.