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In Venezuela don't watch your back, watch your hair
They already endure staggering levels of street crime. Now, Venezuelans have something new to fear -- muggers who chop off their hair.
Members of the scissor-wielding street gangs are called piranas, after the flesh-eating fish.
The gangs sell the stolen hair to salons which fashion it into braids in this oil-rich and beauty-obsessed country.
Some disconsolate women have given up and had their long hair cut off preemptively to donate it to children who lose theirs to cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-dont-watch-back-watch-hair-103220451.html
Interesting -- if not too surprising -- response from Manuro.