# Bomb planted on girl in Sydney

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-planted-on-girl-in-sydney/591319>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-planted-on-girl-in-sydney/591319 "2011-08-03T13:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-planted-on-girl-in-sydney/591319/41 "2011-08-16T20:43:25Z")

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More info released on how they tracked this guy down.

[http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/08/16/7388277-sydney-to-kentucky-cracking-the-collar-bomb-case](http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/16/7388277-sydney-to-kentucky-cracking-the-collar-bomb-case)

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bomb-planted-on-girl-in-sydney/591319/42 "2011-08-16T22:54:30Z")

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> Dirk Straun is the name of a character in a novel by James Clavell, “Tai-Pan,” about a businessman’s attempt to destroy a competitor during the 1840s.

Uh, that’s Dirk Str_u_an.

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