07/30/2025
Meet 38-year-old Michael Robertson from Chatham.
It wasn’t hard to track him down — his record speaks for itself.
He’s a perfect example of why you shouldn’t do drugs — and what businesses like ours have to deal with as a result.
This individual, clearly under the influence, caused over $10,000 in damage to our car wash facility this past weekend.
Who pays for that and cleans up after him? We do. We have worked too hard to purchase, maintain and operate a car and dog wash, just to have it damaged by people like this.
What you’re seeing in this video is only the PG-13 version. We couldn’t show it all as his mini Costco sample-sized sausage was exposed in most of it. He ripped off hoses, shoved garbage up his butt, stood in our garbage pail before spreading it all over, stuck his feet inside the vending machine, bent our dog wash tub, and broke everything he could in less then 25 minutes there. He also spent the entire time inappropriately touching himself and smearing his hands on everything — to top it off, he smashed our vending machine before finally getting caught.
Chatham-Kent has a serious problem.
There should be ZERO sympathy for behavior like this.
If you’re one of those people saying, “We’ve failed them as a society,” or “They need love and compassion,” we invite you to open your backyard — let them set up camp there and see how long your sympathy lasts. Maybe when you run out of funds for repairs, have your insurance dropped from too many claims, or even worse — get hurt from them, you will understand that is not the answer.
The only way to help people like this is by giving them real consequences to their actions. “Crack Monkey Mike” here is not new to being charged — including again this weekend — and yet he keeps getting released.
Our justice system is broken. Our tax dollars should be going towards real solutions. Giving them clean needles, tents, supplies and being socially tolerant of them is not working. We need to ban open air encampments completely by offering supervised housing whether they are currently using or not (hopefully coming soon). We also need MANDATORY mental health / addiction treatment if they want to stay housed, more jail space for the ones who refuse, tougher sentencing, or better yet, castle doctrine laws, so people can defend themselves and their property without fear of being the ones thrown in jail. People like this would either learn fast from real consequences — or stop draining public resources altogether.
We have hours of footage of individuals like this trespassing, vandalizing, and damaging property. We monitor our cameras constantly, but we can’t catch everything. We’re incredibly thankful to our local police — they respond quickly and do all they legally can. The issue isn’t enforcement — it’s the justice system that keeps letting these people back out.
To the other business owners and residents dealing with this daily — we feel for you. Sadly, public exposure and humility like this is one of the few tools we have left to prevent them from coming to our property.
Let’s be honest based on our current legal system: if we had caught him in the act and handled it the way he deserved…
we’d be in jail. And he’d still be back out like he is now.
Our appreciation goes out to our customers for being patient while we make repairs. We are still open and thankful for your business and support.
Shoutout to the awesome crew at our supporting business, Walker Marine , for helping clean, repair, and maintain the car wash. We couldn’t do it without them! Visit them for your next Marine or RV purchase!
