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Birthday girl hides after 1,500 Facebook users turn up for party

A German teenager fled from her own birthday party after more than 1,500 guests turned up, shortly followed by 100 police officers.

The girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding after forgetting to set her party as 'private' on Facebook meaning she got a lot more than she bargained for.

Eleven people were temporarily detained by officers and one policeman was injured.

Despite public announcements across the city that the party had been cancelled, 1,500 teens and young adults still turned up on the street in front of Thessa's home.

Mr Streiber said: 'We had cordoned off the house, some 100 police were on the ground, four of them on horses - but that did not keep the kids from celebrating.'

Some of the party-goers held signs asking 'Where is Thessa?' chanting 'Thessa, celebrating a birthday is not a crime', while others brought birthday presents and home-made cupcakes.

One police officer was slightly injured when he tried to stop a party reveller from breaking the Mercedes-Benz logo from his patrol car.

Thessa, however, was nowhere to be seen and police confirmed she 'was not at home that night' and she is believed to have celebrated quietly at her grandparents' house.


Now transplating of heads!

If you are having problems in your head such as some screws loosened, there is hope for you.

You can transplant your head and get a new one!

You might wonder what this news is and may think it may be a scene from a horror film where Dr, Frankenstein creates a monster by transplanting components from human bodies including the brain.

But this is for real as Doctor Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Meuromodulation Group outlines a medical procedure which he says will successfully connect a brain to a spinal chord.

Writing in the Surgical Neurology International Journal he says "It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage".

And according to Dr. Canavero this operation would cost about 15 million dollars.

Dr Canavero says his procedure is derived from successful head transplants of animals from experiments dating back to the 1970s.

The head of a rhesus monkey was transplanted to the body of another in 1970 in an experimental procedure.

The head was quickly cooled to about 12C and transferred to a chilled new body.

Once the head was reconnected to the circulatory system, the body's heart was restarted and work initiated to connect the nervous system. Dr Canavero also says that a "clean cut" by an ultra-sharp cutting implement was the key to success as it would allow the severed nerve cells to fuse with each other.

Recently, scientists at Case Western Reserve University proved they could now restore some neural connectivity in the spinal cords of rats.

Perhaps all those people who have had their heads cryogenically frozen weren't out of their minds after all.

Any way just forget the cost and be happy that you are getting a new head and a brand new life for that matter!


Story of the stolen house

Stealing a house! Can you steal a house? Yes, it happened in Dundalk, Ontario, north-west of Toronto,Canada.

When the owner came home his 10-year-old mobile home was missing.

He alerted police who located the "45-foot, double-wide" prefabricated building worth an estimated CAN$30,000 on a rural property "a relatively short distance from where it was taken," Ontario Provincial Police Constable Dave Myers said.

45-year-old Jeffrey LaForest was charged with theft and mischief, and using forged documents to try to convince police that he owned the building.

Authorities could not explain how the home was stolen.

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