Mr. Ballin

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On the morning of December 8th, 1995, a 41-year-old mother named Bonnie Sanborn set a box of cereal down on the dining room table inside of her home in Tucson, Arizona.

She then called for her three kids to come eat breakfast, and just a few seconds later, her youngest son, 10-year-old Brandon, came bombing into the room and sat down at the table.

Bonnie then poured herself a cup of coffee and carried it down the hallway to her 13-year-old daughter Candace's room.

Candace was busy putting on makeup, and when Bonnie reminded her that it was almost time to leave for school, she just rolled her eyes and said, you know, she'd be out in a minute.

Then Bonnie continued going down the hallway and knocked on the door of her 15-year-old son Bradley's room.

And when he didn't open the door, she shouted through the door that if he didn't get out of bed soon, she would come in there and literally drag him out.

But there was still no response after she did this, so Bonnie put her ear to the door and listened for movement.

She was hoping to hear sheets rustling or dresser drawers opening, but she didn't hear those sounds.

Instead, she heard a different sound.

It was like this weird clanking sound, like metal pounding against metal.

And so because this noise was so unusual, she just opened up the door and she found her son, Bradley, along with his friend, 18-year-old Jason Horbachevsky, squatting in the middle of the room, trying to pry open this big metal box with a crowbar and a hammer.

Bonnie stepped fully inside the room to get a better look, and she saw there was a phone receiver dangling off the side of this metal box.

It was clearly a payphone that Bradley and Jason had clearly stolen from somewhere out on the street, and now they were trying to, you know, steal the quarters out from inside of it.

Bonnie was so shocked that all she could think to do was just say, "'What are you doing?'

And Bradley, he looked at his mom and just seemed totally unphased that she was in there.

And he just said, what?

We're just trying to get the change out of this payphone.