{"id":10169,"date":"2019-10-31T20:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2019-10-31T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:45:38","slug":"crocketile-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10169\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocketile Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_au\/partners\/audible-no-gangsters-in-paradise\/how-a-western-sydney-gang-got-hold-of-military-grade-rocket-launchers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This<\/a> is fun. Some background:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2001, Shane Della-Vedova, a military captain in the army explosives team, was asked to dispose of ten M72 shoulder-fired rocket launchers from an Australian Defence Force base. &#8230; Apparently, he overlooked ten rocket launchers that were still in the car boot\u2013\u2013driving away that day with them in the back of his car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which led to a sequence of events that included the best quote in Australian wiretapping history:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I sold the rocket launchers to my mate and he sold it to those fucking dickhead terrorists. Now it&#8217;s a fucking drama.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, this lot think Americans should be looking to them for advice on regulating handguns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun. Some background: In 2001, Shane Della-Vedova, a military captain in the army explosives team, was asked to dispose of ten M72 shoulder-fired rocket launchers from an Australian Defence Force base. &#8230; Apparently, he overlooked ten rocket launchers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10169\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10170,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}