THE boy who lost both hands in a golf ball bomb blast says he didn't know the device was deadly - and told how he wished it was a dream when he looked at his injuries.

Michael Boggan lost both of his hands on Friday afternoon after the device, understood to be a golf ball, exploded in the back yard of a house in Leichhardt, near Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

Police are still waiting to speak to Michael as he continues his recovery.

Michael underwent a nine-hour surgery on Friday night and faces more months of surgery and treatment.

The 15-year-old's mother Rebecca Boggan said the teen she believed to be the main perpetrator had been "on and off friends" with Michael over the years.

"He (Michael) is done with the friendship now, he's had enough," she said.

"I'd love to know what the other boy has to say for himself though."

She said Michael could not speak to police yet as he was heavily sedated.

Earlier, speaking from his Princess Alexandra Hospital, he said: "Tell the kids out there to tell your parents if you find anything unusual. Just don't pick it up at all."

"If you ever find anything with white powder in it with bearings in it, do not pick it up. It is a bomb."

"I had no idea it was a bomb. It just blew up in my face", Michael said.

"The tiniest powder, right, it goes into a huge flame. Right. And that was a golf ball, packed."

He said the blast happened after he went to a nearby house with friends.

"Basically we all went around there. My mate was sitting there he said 'Oh Michael, check this out - I wasn't lying - I found heroin in a golf ball'."

"He picks it out and puts it on this table and everyone was sitting there saying 'snort the shit Michael, I'll do it if you do it'."

"I was like 'no freaking way man, you do it, and then I'll probably do it'.'

"But none of them did it. What I usually could do is make them snort it and then I don't snort it or whatever."

"But they didn't snort it, neither did I luckily. He put it on the table and I walked over, picked it up, had a look at it.

"He goes: 'I'll sell it to you for $5'. Oh yeah, a smoke sorry. 'I'll sell it to you for a smoke' right.

"I roll him a smoke and I give it to him."

"He sold it to me. I was just sitting there playing with it. I was chucking it around and the next minute 'boom'."

"I was shaking it up a little bit. I didn't know it would blow up."

"I couldn't see for two seconds, and I couldn't hear for two seconds."

"And then I looked at my hands and I was like ‘tell me this is a dream, please tell me this is a dream’. "

“There was just all of this, hung down, and all of this skin."

He said he had known the other youth for “ages”.

His mother Rebecca Boggan said: "He has got a little finger on his left hand, that's it. And he has got a thumb on his right. They've managed to reconstruct and pin the index and the middle finger.

"The ring finger took a big swipe, I don't know how much of that is left. They don't know if the other two fingers are going to stay and not get infected. He's going in for surgery tomorrow morning.

"He's got shrapnel wounds all over his body.

"He's very up on medication at the moment.

"He's got holes in his legs, right down to his bones, from the ball bearings. He's got shrapnel wounds on his arms. And his hands are gone.

"I would like to see this boy charged with whatever offences.

"I know from a few other adult witnesses, that the main perpetrator was showing this golf ball around a few houses in Leichhardt in the morning.

"Michael believes (the other youth) he found it on the side of the road shortly before the incident happened. But we don't think that's true.

"He went out to play and I just keep thinking about the what-ifs. What if I made him stay home and do the house work he was supposed to do. What if I had done this If I had done that. It may not have happened.

"Apparently him and his friends were sitting at the table and the perpetrator came into the yard.

"He sat down at the table and said to Michael 'look at this it's full of drugs', and threw it at him.

"The first thing you do is catch something that is thrown at you - and it exploded.

"My son in a victim here."

Earlier

Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale this morning said the boy had spoken for the first time since the incident.



"He has just come out surgery and he has related he was sitting around the table with a few boys and some young boy ... who has always been a bully to him has thrown some sort of golf ball explosive device at him and it has exploded.



"All I'm saying is this person needs to have some consequences for his actions because what he has done has sort of destroyed a young 15-year-old boy's life."

Cr Pisasale said: "Michael said all the others (besides the one youth that threw the ball) are all innocent."

Stepdad Michael Clifton said Michael had been shopping earlier in the day before the tragedy and had bought a slow cooker as a present for Mother's Day.

"We were out doing shopping - we had just bought his mother a Mother's Day present.



"It's the last thing he'll ever carry."



Mr Clifton said he had been told another similar homemade device had been in the community previously.



He said Michael had been bullied in the neighbourhood for about three years.



"He would come home sometimes and he had been in fights with other kids and he's come home angry ... because no one liked him and they just kept treating him like crap.



"One of them didn't like him and this is what happens."



Mr Clifton said he did not know the 17-year-old accused of throwing the device and had not spoken to Michael's school about the bullying.



"We never thought it would come to this," he said.



Mr Clifton said there had been bullying on Facebook in the past "and we put a stop to it, straight up."



He said his son did not have the "wherewithal" to make a bomb.



"He never learnt anything about that and we monitor his Internet."



Mr Clifton said he was told people in the community knew about the homemade bomb earlier in the day.



"I'd just like to see justice done," he said.



"If he has done wrong punish him (the boy who allegedly threw the device).



"He has been in trouble with the law heaps of times before and they just don't punish these kids."



Michael - who today was in a stable condition in hospital - had just finished Mother's Day shopping with his stepfather yesterday when he went to visit a friend in Dampier St but ended up across the street in another home's backyard.

What followed, his family said, was a horrific incident that should never have happened.

"Some kids had been boasting about this golf ball all morning . . . then they threw it at him," his mother said.

"He wasn't involved, they weren't his friends."

Michael, 15, suffers from autism and Asperger syndrome and attends Ipswich High three days a week.

"He tries to make friends with these kids but gets bullied," the boy's mum Rebecca said.

Mr Clifton said he was still in shock.

"These teenagers have no moral compass," he said.

Michael underwent emergency surgery at the Princess Alexandra Hospital overnight in the hope of saving part of one of his hands.

Three other teens, aged between 15 and 18, were also hurt and taken to Ipswich hospital.

Police inspector Keith McDonald said those believed to be involved had not been "forthcoming" in providing information about the incident.

The family said they had been wanting to move from the area for years but could not afford to.

"There are needles in the playground, we don't let our daughter play there anymore," Michael's mum said.

They said their home on Light St had been egged and targeted by vandals, with gangs of teens running rampant and little police presence.

Describing the boy as having a "heart of gold", his family said they were horrified, unsure what to do next.

Police investigations are continuing.