Bizarre details emerge in Australia teen's neck bomb hoax horror!

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msnbc.com staff and news service reports / updated 8/4/2011 7:16:17 PM ET.

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Madeleine Pulver, 18, had a suspected bomb attached to her after a masked man entered her family's home in Sydney on Wednesday.

SYDNEY — A bizarre ransom note bearing the name of a fictional character was left by a ski-mask-clad man who broke into a suburban Sydney home and chained a fake bomb to the 18-year-old daughter of a wealthy Australia businessman, officials close to the case said Thursday.

The man apparently was spotted running away from the home in the suburb of Mosman by a neighbor and her driver, who told police he leapt into a car driven by a woman who had been "driving up and down the street, looking nervous," sources told the Daily Telegraph.   

After telling police the car sped away, the neighbor, champion racehorse trainer Gai Waterhouse, took to her blog to chastise the "crazy person" who sparked a 10-hour ordeal Wednesday as police removed the bomb-like device from Madeleine Pulver.

"Some crazy person had supposedly tied a bomb to young girl who lives down the street. What is our world coming to, if people can't feel safe in their own homes," Waterhouse wrote. "This young lady could easily be affected for life by this horrendous experience. How dare someone violate the privacy that she and her family are entitled to, not to mention the unimaginable terror and strain they were put under, the boot should be put on the other foot."

Story: Police: Neck bomb hoax was a 'very serious' extortion plot

Police on Thursday revealed the name on the ransom note that contained a threat to detonate the device was Dirk Struan, the lead character in the 1966 novel "Tai-Pan," by author James Clavell and set during the time of the 1842 Opium War. The plot involves two businessmen who set out to destroy each other. It contains a passage in chapter 12 in which Struan is told there is a price on the heads of his mistress and children.

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Australia’s Collar-Bomb Hoax

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David Leser, thedailybeast.com / Aug 4, 2011 2:11 AM EDT.

Police and family members at the scene of Mosman home where an 18-year old girl is believed to have had a bomb strapped to her earlier today, on August 3, 2011 in Mosman, Australia. , The Sydney Morning Herald / Getty Images.

Sydney authorities worked for 10 hours to free Madeleine Pulver, 18, from a device suspected of being a collar bomb—but turned out to be fake. David Leser on the teenager’s ordeal.

The elegant Sydney Harbor suburb of Mosman was the scene Wednesday of a horrifying hostage bomb scare after an 18-year-old young woman had a suspected explosive device strapped to her neck by a balaclava-wearing intruder.

For 10 hours Wednesday, Sydney time, schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver sat terrified and transfixed in her family home as police and bomb disposal experts worked to free her from what they believed was “a collar bomb,” never before seen in Australia.

Police said they faced an unprecedented situation, both “extremely complex and stressful,” given that the device was thought to be a remotely detonated bomb, or one capable of being activated by a trembler switch. The trembler switch has been used by the Provisional IRA and other terrorist groups to detonate car bombs from safe distances. They can be set off when the explosive device is tilted beyond a certain angle.

At midnight last night, the device was found to be “a very, very elaborate hoax,” possibly part of an extortion against the young woman’s family.

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Police try to defuse bomb 'strapped to teenage girl' in Sydney

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By Bonnie Malkin, Sydney / telegraph.co.uk /11:37AM BST 03 Aug 2011.

A teenage girl is at the centre of an unfolding drama in one of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs after she was found by police in her home with a bomb strapped around her neck.

Reports suggested the 18 year old girl has been at the property in Mosman, on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, when an intruder broke in and fitted her with the device against her will at about 2.40pm. Once the intruder left the property she rang police for help.

Police have refused to confirm reports that she was also left with a ransom note.

However, she is understood to be the daughter of a wealthy Sydney businessman and Australian media have suggested that the extraordinary incident might be part of an extortion attempt.

Police, bomb squads and negotiators were on the scene, attempting to determine if the bomb was live or could be controlled remotely.

Assistant police commissioner Mark Murdoch told the assembled media that police were trying to “work out what it is and more importantly what it isn’t.”

More than 7 hours after police arrived at the house, Mr Murdoch said the woman was “doing pretty well” and remained calm.

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