Phil Conahan

And I just built a new padlock system for it.

And that was the best I could do.

And...

Cops got there and looked everything over and took the report, and that was it.

It wasn't maybe two or three Sundays after that, I got there and found out that the door was smashed in again, and more of my equipment was gone.

Oh, sure.

Oh, yeah.

I thought, you know, a one-time deal.

But, you know, it was just the start of many.

After about the second or the third, I got used to it, you know.

I didn't know what to do.

I can't remember how many times they came through that back door until I finally rebuilt the door.

And then I put sheet metal there.

And then I backed it up with more wood.

And the next time I got there to work, he had taken a hatchet or an axe or a claw hammer or something and tried to break in, and he absolutely just shattered the wooden door until he came to that piece of metal.

And he didn't have any way to get through that metal.

The place was so off the beaten path that

They just couldn't seem to get a patrol car to go down in there and check the place.

They were too busy where there was business and people and cars and so forth, you know.

But he was incredible.