Helen Pitt

It was like a complete getaway vehicle.

Now...

I cannot reveal the name of these people because to this day they do not want to be known.

Really?

They unloaded their loot on the green at the University of New South Wales.

The poor old student union that was actually the one overseeing the scavenger hunt then has to reveal the fact that they are the ones in possession of these teeth when it's on the front pages of the newspapers and leading the TV bulletins.

And one of the guys whose mother came to visit him from Wollongong, she comes and sits on the bed and goes, did you hear that they've stolen Luna Park's teeth?

And he goes, Mum, you're sitting on one of them.

It's under my bed.

So he had to fess up.

Although the poor old union were the ones that returned it, the actual culprits ended up becoming some of the best medicos in New South Wales, not only doctors but dentists, and it was perhaps the first and last tooth extraction they ever performed for free.

They wouldn't have told me otherwise.

Exactly.

Things were pretty bad.

You know, I interviewed firemen that were there that night, the surviving boy from Waverley College who was there that night, four boys from Waverley College and a father with his two young sons were killed in this fire.

It went up like tinderbox because obviously it was paper mache and old school wood and it just burnt extraordinarily quickly.

And no matter how many...

fire brigades that came from all over Sydney.

There were about 12.

They couldn't get the water pressure to stop the fire.