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For 10 long hours, the teen sat still as a bomb squad gingerly worked to remove a suspicious device strapped around her neck.

It was Wednesday afternoon in the affluent Australian suburb of Mosman when a masked man entered the home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver. He forcibly fit a strange object around her neck and fled.

Attached to it -- a note with "serious" demands, officials said without elaborating.

Bomb squads, negotiators and detectives rushed to the leafy suburb on Sydney Harbor, where sports stars and celebrities live.

Homes were evacuated; streets closed.

From a distance, Pulver's distraught parents -- well-respected and well-connected members of Sydney high society -- watched while four officers sat with her, keeping her calm.

But when the ordeal ended early Thursday, police discovered that the contraption they thought was a bomb contained no explosives. It was a hoax -- "a very, very elaborate hoax," said Luke Moore, the Australian police superintendent. More at http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/australia.bomb.ordeal/inde
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