An Australian police remanded a 35-year-old man from the country town of Castlemaine in Victoria for making an order of bomb-making equipment on eBay at an amount of $AU17,000.

Talking at the Bendigo Magistrates Court, Phillip Marsh explained that his aim was to “make fireworks” out of his purchased materials that included potassium nitrate, charcoal powder, sulphur, detonator cord, and military paraphernalia including anti-personnel mines.

Police didn’t agree with the fireworks theory but they still noted to the court that the man does not appear to be linked with any terrorist groups.

When having noticed a suspicious order eBay reported it to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Police told the magistrate the materials Marsh had collected could make “five kilograms of explosives” that could be “activated within 15 minutes”.