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JA: Tell me about the incident when someone brought an evacuation notice into your store?

HT: Oh, yes, yes, yes. Well, they put that thing against the wall --

JA: Tell me that a little more. What happened? Somebody came in with something?

HT: Just walked in and plastered it.

JA: And what was it?

HT: It was the evacuation notice telling us that we have to evacuate. They were putting it on the telephone pole, on the outside, naturally out in the street, and they came in and plastered it against the wall. Right at the entrance there on the left-hand side and just plastered it.

JA: Right in the restaurant?

HT: Right in the restaurant.

JA: Why there?

HT: Beg your pardon?

JA: Why would they put it there?

HT: Why? There's a million whys that happened at that time, I guess. Why? To this very day, there's so many whys, questions that I myself do have. But I guess if anybody was in the right, normal sense instead of being follow-the-sheep and had to use more common sense, I guess there would not have been a million whys, I guess. Yeah, why?

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