Saturday, January 26, 2008

Brazil bandits cut off woman's 1.5-metre-long hair with machete

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Two men on a motorcycle grabbed a woman as she walked to church, pulled out a machete and cut off the waist-length hair she had been growing for two decades.

Police in Brazil say the woman - a homemaker 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 that the woman told authorities she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years.

He said the robbers cut the woman's hair - nearly a metre and half long - apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.

A hairpiece that size could cost you as much as $550.

Similar attacks have occurred in other Brazilian cities, where the demand for human hair is high.

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