Toronto cafe owner boards up windows after repeated smashings he calls 'targeted' Toronto
has been the target of multiple window smashings over the past few years, and owner Joseph Balloutine says the headaches and costs of constantly replacing his cafe's windows have"become too much," opting to end the cycle of smashings by replacing his windows with boarding.
Balloutine tells blogTO that he has operated the business for nine years, and past break-ins would come through a side door and focus on stealing beer, tablets, or whatever thieves could carry out."The guy that's coming the last few times and broken like six windows, he's on rollerblades, he's wearing a facemask, he's got a crowbar. So it's a totally different situation," says Balloutine.
He says that due to inflation and the rising costs of window replacement, he is being asked to fork over $12,000 to replace three windows — a difficult cost to justify when this window smasher is still at large and targeting the business.
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