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Proof: 'Petrol station legend': Police seek man who pushed burning car away from pump

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T23:30:15Z","headline":"'Petrol station legend': Police seek man who pushed burning car away from pump","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bombay-petrol-station-fire-police-seek-mystery-hero-who-pushed-burning-car-from-pump/BFJASUOUFNAJ5MG7ZFU453GVAE/","v":1}

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c6656c5ef37ba46705d5e4fd919bf789638867ab1461d9fa21be8deecb49a19f

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970545, mined 2026-10-08 23:41 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 23:32 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 23:32 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-c6656c5ef37b.json prints c6656c5ef37ba46705d5e4fd919bf789638867ab1461d9fa21be8deecb49a19f. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-c6656c5ef37b.json and headline-c6656c5ef37b.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-c6656c5ef37b.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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