Hair Robbery Is The New Trend In Venezuela

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/hair-robbery-venezuela_n_3709707.html


Women in the city of Maracaibo in Venezuela should be careful when wearing their hair down. According to local news sources, a group known as “piranhas” are now stealing women’s hair -- and they prefer it straight.

The robbers will hold women at gunpoint in malls and tell them to tie their hair into a ponytail so that they can then cut it off and sell it to beauty salons as hair extensions, according to Venezuelan digital newspaper Informe 21.

Jhonatan Morales, a hair stylist in Venezuela, told Globovision news that the use of hair extensions has gone up by 30%, but that his salon “doesn’t buy from street vendors because we don’t know where that hair comes from.”

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Venezuela’s soaring crime rates have been an issue in recent years. Caracas, the country’s capital, is the third most violent city in the world, according to a study by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Wow. A new crime trend

that I don't have to worry about.