1Thrills That Kill Shaun Brenner's family speak out about their grief after he became the first NZer to die from a so-called legal party drug one month ago. After months of warnings by medical professionals about the dangers of these drugs, why is it still legal to sell them? Correspondent: Janet McIntyre Producer: Melanie Jones It started one evening last month with a group of friends taking a legally available, mood-enhancing substance. They had done it before, they had been assured it was safe, safer, they had been told, than alcohol. Within hours one young man had fallen into a fatal coma, his girlfriend was fighting for her life. Shawn Brenner had taken a fatal dose of a drug that is easily accessible - and believed to be 1, 4b. It is a substance related to the party drug, Fantasy. Shawn's family talks exclusively to 60 Minutes reporter, Janet McIntyre. They want to warn all New Zealanders of the dangers posed by these substances and they want urgent action to have them banned before another life is lost. Carol Brenner is furious that New Zealand authorities haven't yet acted. In the past fifteen months Auckland Hospital alone has treated 90 cases of overdose related to this family of drugs. Had action been taken earlier she believes her son would be alive today. And, in an extraordinary meeting McIntyre confronts New Zealand's' major supplier of 1, 4 b. James McNee doesn't mind being called a drug dealer and feels no responsibility for Shawn's death. He went on to say business has never been better. [27/05/01]

2Sniper One step further than the armed offenders squad in the US are the snipers - officers who are trained to shoot to kill. They argue they save a life by taking a life, but their critics say they are judge, jury and executioner. Is this going too far? Correspondent: Jim Stewart In America, when you need help, you dial 911. Street cops in need of help call for the SWAT team. And when things get really ugly, the SWAT team turns to its sniper. The 'Sniper' has become the favourite secret weapon in more and more police departments. But some wonder whether simply having a sniper on the force makes a department more likely to use one. As more police forces augment their ranks with snipers, some wonder if their presence makes deadly shootings more likely. At Thunder Ranch in Mountain Home, Texas, a multi-purpose gun school, veteran police officers learn, in an intense five-day course, the deadly art of being a sniper. 60 Minutes investigates, starting at this sniper school. Correspondent Jim Stewart reports. [27/05/01]

3Golf Cross What do you get when you cross golf and rugby? The answer is a new game which its creator hopes will take the world by storm. Correspondent: John Hudson Producer: John Shanahan He's the creator of Bogor the dope smoking hedgehog, designer of the cellulite ski suit and the waterproof book and pen. Now Burton Silver the eccentric designer and lateral thinker has decided it would be nice to make up a new sport - and he's called it 'Golf Cross'. Silver thinks this game has the potential to change the way we all view golf. The golf clubs are the same, but the ball is radically different - shaped like a rugby ball. The idea is not to putt the ball into a hole but to hit it between goal posts and into a net. John Hudson talks with this fascinating inventor about how his new invention came into being, and what inspired him - considering he has only played three games of golf in his life. [27/05/01]

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