Byrner
01-25-2008, 11:00 AM
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Two men on a motorcycle grabbed a housewife, pulled out a machete and cut off the hair she had been growing for two decades, police in northeastern Brazil said Thursday.
The woman, whose name was not released, told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted late Tuesday, police officer Antonio Williams da Silva said by telephone from the northeastern city of Aracaju.
"She was an evangelical and said she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years," da Silva said. "It must have been nearly a meter and half (more than four feet) long."
The robbers cut the woman's hair above her shoulders, he said, apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.
"A hairpiece that size could cost you as much as $555," da Silva said.
The woman filed a complaint with police and said she had received anonymous threats. She was not injured, but her assailants could be charged with battery if caught.
Da Silva said it was the second recent case of hair robbery in Aracaju.
Similar attacks have occurred in other Brazilian cities, where the demand for human hair is high.
Last year, bandits wielding scissors boarded a bus in Rio de Janeiro and cut off the hair that 22-year-old Mirna Marchet had been growing for four years.
Source: (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080124/D8UCGN6G1.html)
The woman, whose name was not released, told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted late Tuesday, police officer Antonio Williams da Silva said by telephone from the northeastern city of Aracaju.
"She was an evangelical and said she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years," da Silva said. "It must have been nearly a meter and half (more than four feet) long."
The robbers cut the woman's hair above her shoulders, he said, apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.
"A hairpiece that size could cost you as much as $555," da Silva said.
The woman filed a complaint with police and said she had received anonymous threats. She was not injured, but her assailants could be charged with battery if caught.
Da Silva said it was the second recent case of hair robbery in Aracaju.
Similar attacks have occurred in other Brazilian cities, where the demand for human hair is high.
Last year, bandits wielding scissors boarded a bus in Rio de Janeiro and cut off the hair that 22-year-old Mirna Marchet had been growing for four years.
Source: (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080124/D8UCGN6G1.html)