Pizza shops, service stations and hardware stores around Alice Springs sell different goods, but share the same story.
They’ve all been robbed or ransacked in recent months.
David Moore from the BP truck stop said the crime spree was the worst he’d ever seen.
The service station was broken into over the weekend and spare car keys were stolen, meaning all staff cars must be locked in the yard during the day.
But that still hasn’t stopped damage being done, with rocks being hurled over the fence and smashing truck windows. Fuel pumps have also been damaged.
“There are drunks on the street, there’s fighting on the street that wasn’t happening before,” Moore told AAP, in reference to the mandatory alcohol bans ending six months ago….