http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=newzealand
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http://www.crime.co.nz/displaynews.asp?id=71053
"Napier police still looking for explosives"
9 March 2007
"Napier police continue the hunt for explosives stolen from car before being used to blow up letterbox at the weekend"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The police hunt for a cache of explosives stolen from a car in Napier continues."
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http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3725001&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
"TOP STORY: Stolen explosives a threat say police"
08.03.2007
"Enough explosives to blow up several houses are somewhere in Hawke's Bay."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Napier police have been approached by an 18-year-old farm worker who said he had a box of plastic explosives, detonators and wiring stolen from his car.
The teenager contacted Napier CIB detective Emmet Lynch after reading about the attempted destruction of a Church Road, Taradale, letterbox last Saturday night.
Police found a golf-ball sized chunk of plastic explosive and a detonator in the cactus-inspired letterbox of Harry Ziebe.
But the youth's approach to police reveals now that the amount found was the tip of an explosive iceberg.
The teenager said he had five 25cm sticks of "Powergel" explosive (about the length of a pet food roll) five detonators and electrical wiring stored in a box in his car.
Mr Lynch said the teenager was not being linked with the attack on the letterbox and had told police he had taken the items from a rural property in northern Hawke's Bay to "show off" to some people.
The farm owner had been contacted and told police the explosives had been safely stored on the property. He was upset they had been taken. The teenager had worked there and had legitimate access to the property.
"This is a lot of explosives to be missing," Mr Lynch said. "They are out there somewhere, in a huge quantity and in the wrong hands. Our real concern is if they fall into the hands of serious criminals.""
Thanks, Cindy
I shall monitor this issue and report back as any news arises: it seems to have escaped my attention.
That said, kids are always blowing up letterboxes here: it is a dumb prank that is actually extremely dangerous. Normally homemade explosives are used (FREEPmail me if you want to know the specific methodology they use: I don't want to give Yankee kids any stupid ideas from their Kiwi cousins...)
The use of commercial explosives here is therefore novel and suggests something quite a bit more sinister...
Cheers
*DieHard*