An indoor trampoline park at North Wollongong has been targeted by thieves for the second time in less than a year.
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The owner has appealed to the public to help catch the offenders, who he estimates did about $5000 worth of damage during the latest break-in.
Flip Out North Wollongong was broken into between 7pm Monday and 7am on Tuesday.
Co-owner Dave Jarman said the thieves took two point of sale devices and two iPads.
They also "completely destroyed" a $2000 safe, only to discover there was no money inside.
"We clear out the safe on a daily basis (after the previous incident)," Mr Jarman said.
"We don't keep money on-site any more, we bank it every day.
"But they've caused damage as they're going around to break-in.
"They've broken in through a fence, and then broken in through the glass doors.
"It's more about the inconvenience. It's just really disappointing. We're a small business, we're a family-run business, and every time this happens it comes straight out of our pockets."
Mr Jarman said the business had previously been broken into last October.
Mr Jarman said the extent of the damage from this week's incident was still to be determined, but estimated it would be about $5000.
"Last time it was closer to $11,000," he said.
Mr Jarman suspected the business had been targeted by the same group of thieves who had committed the previous break-in.
"Last time when they came in it was a lot messier because they didn't know where everything was," he told the Mercury.
"So they literally destroyed cupboards over there, cupboards in the kitchen.
"They destroyed a door, they put a hole in the fence and they put holes in the wall because they were looking for everything.
"Whereas this time around they knew exactly where to go.
"They just went for the low hanging fruit. They got into the safe, but there was nothing in there."
He also believed the thieves were the same group who recently broke into Flip Out at Caringbah.
Mr Jarman said they would now be putting further security measures in place, but admitted "if they want to get in, they'll get in".
"These guys, whoever they are, they haven't been caught, and I want to appeal to the public for help," he said. "They're hurting local Wollongong families, family-run businesses and the local community."
Inspector Geoff Olsen from Wollongong Police District said investigations into the latest incident were ongoing.