This is the most bizarrely terrifying thing. Someone attached a bomb to this 18 yr old girl at 2.30 this afternoon. Nine hours later, the police bomb squad are still trying to work out how to disarm it. There may or not be some kind of ransom note involved. The police have evacuated her house, and the neighbouring houses. She is with 4 police officers. I can’t imagine how scared and freaked out she must be. I have never heard of something like this: someone breaking into a house and attaching explosives to someone.
Apparently it’s over:
Teenager safe and well after ten-hour bomb ordeal August 4, 2011 - 12:16AM
.An 18-year-old Sydney schoolgirl is safe and well after a ten-hour bomb ordeal in her Mosman home.
Police are appealing for help and anyone who noticed suspicious activity around the home or on Burrawong Avenue this afternoon should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
It all sounds very scary and not a little strange.
Was it ever proven that Wells was involved? He was dead after all and had no opportunity to defend himself. My understanding is that the basis for believing he was involved was the testimony of the robbers after they were caught - and they would have reason to try to mitigate their guilt by claiming Wells was also guilty rather than admitting they killed an innocent man.
They are saying it was an extortion attempt to do with the dad’s business. How was that supposed to work? Could the extortionist set the bomb off remotely? Was he going to come and remove it if they complied with the demand?
The police are still not sure if it was actually a bomb. They are saying it was ‘extremely well-made’, which means they have no clue.
I hadn’t heard about the Brian Wells case. That is also very weird, like the plot for a bad movie.
I know one of the teachers at the girl’s school. She emailed me a few minutes ago to say that it’s farily chaotic there this morning. All the staff and girls have just been briefed on what’s been going on. There are journalists milling around at every gate to the school. And the HSC trial exams have all been suspended until further notice.
As my friend said “it certainly isn’t your average schoolday here at the moment”.
Fear of blowing her and themselves up? It’s not like they could do the normal bomb disposal thing and just stick her bomb and all in the middle of a field and blow her up.
This is what happens when you have a liberal immigration policy and don’t allow the police to do their job and profile as is obviously necessary. The Mosman community should be thoroughly watched at all times and infiltrated because this is just the kind of actions one would expect from them.
And everybody was wondering if you had some inside information to indicate that it was a bad one. Other than the publicly-available fact that it stars Jesse Eisenberg.