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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.

Climax

Climax

The climax came when [unclear: son] one finally discovered the [unclear: plas] bag inside the "body's" shirt. [unclear: T] hoax was exposed. Almost [unclear: 0] people had been properly [unclear: ha] Immediately the crowd [unclear: turr] nasty, and began to take it [unclear: t] the poor "body." Fortunately [unclear: e] police arrived just in time to event what was almost a public [unclear: oching]. The "body" and another [unclear: udent] were led away through [unclear: e] angry crowed by about half a [unclear: zen] burly policemen and placed [unclear: side] a patrol car. A group of [unclear: derly] gentlemen surrounded the [unclear: r] shaking their fists and telling [unclear: e] police that they knew how deal with students.

It took the police over a month decide what they were going do about the stunt. Eventually [unclear: ey] charged two students (the [unclear: ody]" and the student who fired [unclear: e] pistol) with disorderly behav[unclear: ur]. A magistrate ordered the [unclear: udents] to make a donation to [unclear: e] Wellington Free Ambulance, [unclear: d] left thing at that. The exec[unclear: tive] of the day thought the [unclear: rder]" was a great stunt and [unclear: s] only too happy to provide [unclear: e] students with a lawyer and to [unclear: ake] a donation to the Free [unclear: bulance].