Hours after a 17-year-old posted photo of a large sum of cash on Facebook, a gang of masked men, armed with knives and clubs, broke into the home of the girl's mother in the country town of Bundanoon, south-eastern Australia.
According to the police, the thieves, who had probably "liked" the picture on Facebook, came to the house of the girl's mother.
They wore dark-colored clothing, gloves and had their faces covered. They said they wanted to speak to the girl about the cash on her Facebook page.
But the girl's mother told them they had broken into the wrong house.
The girl was not living with her mother. She had taken the photo at her grandmother's house in Sydney the same day.
The girl posted on her Facebook page, a picture of a "large sum of cash" she had helped her 72-year-old grandmother count in her home in Sydney, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north-east of Bundanoon.
The Australian reports the men, unwilling to believe the girl's mother, searched the house and took some cash and a few personal belongings before they left.
12/05/2012
Woman blows herself up and 2 officials after they forced her to sign for demolition of her house
CHINA -- A woman has blown herself up in protest over the demolition of her house in southern China, killing two people and injuring 14.
The suicide blast took place Thursday morning near Zhaotong, a small city in China's remote Yunnan province.
The woman had been meeting with a small group of low-level community officials to sign an agreement over her the demolition of her home and the compensation.
This incident is a reminder of the tensions in China over the country's rapid development where home owners are forced to make way for development.
Local governments often demolish houses - or confiscate land - but offer little or no compensation to those affected, while officials resell their land to companies for huge prices.
Home demolitions are a frequent occurrence throughout the country, as urban areas expand and land developers move quickly to snatch land from rural areas. Although all demolitions and new developments are supposed to be subject to government review, and farmers are guaranteed fair compensation for land by law, numerous examples also demonstrate corruption and collusion of local administrators with property developers, sometimes backed by local thugs.
Opposition to relocation and home destruction by residents, who sometimes refuse to leave homes even in the face of physical intimidation.
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