Now People Are Stealing Human Hair?

[tawadi]

Now People Are Stealing Human Hair?

By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | September 13, 2011

Here’s a crime trend that’s as equally bizarre as the rise in dog kidnappings, though not as heart-wrenching: Thieves have increasingly been targeting salons and beauty supply stores around the country to steal wigs and weaves made with valuable hair imported from overseas. Stores are being ripped off of tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise in each human hair heist.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that thieves in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, San Diego, Houston, and Chicago have been employing smash-and-grab techniques and even ramming trucks into storefronts to steal high-end human hair. Hair has become a hot target for criminals largely because hair—and the long weaves, extensions, and wigs it’s used for—is hot among consumers, who pay $100 and up per bundle to try and reproduce the look popularized by reality star Kim Kardashian and others.

http://moneyland.time.com/2011/09/13/now-people-are-stealing-human-hair/

[gateley]

1. Desperate times. Sad. nt

[frazzled]

2. This is hardly about desperate times

Thieves have been around since the dawn of time, and they'll steal whatever is in hot demand--whether it's dogs, hair, or kidneys. These aren't starving people stealing a loaf of bread to stay alive, like Jean Valjean. This is just another news of the weird from the world of crime.

[emilyg]

5. ...... Correct.

[sam11111]

10. times get desperate long before starving

Rents overdue e g

Those inclined but inactive at theft will be pushed into it when times are merely rough....not starving.

Can't allow it but I see the causality.

Cure is to end all recessions. Wealth stuck at the top freezes up the economy...it collapses about every ten years. "The corporate cycle"

[provis99]

12. when their world is ending, they'll steal anything.

people with no hope steal FREE bicycles in Portland, fer chrissakes.
http://articles.sfgate.com/1997-09-26/news/28574316_1

[guitar man]

3. Well at least I'm safe

God knows I've got nothing worth stealing on this ol bald head :P

[JaneQPublic]

4. Apparently I have a goldmine in my shower drain. (nt)

[jberryhill]

6. They've been pilfering mine slowly for years

They must come at night, but they've managed to leave a bare spot on my head!

[KT2000]

9. LOL!!

Yeah - that's it! They come at night and paint my brown hair grey!!
Arrest them I say.

[EFerrari]

7. Do they buy it by the foot? I want to evaluate my assets.

lol

/oops

[kittykitty]

8. "Hair India" an Indian documentary about the hair trade in India - was on Link TV and

Follows a family from a village who travel to a special temple to have their heads shaved the hair is sold to brokers, and the film shows t being processes dyed and sent to salons world wide. Quite a business exploiting naive, religious poor people.

[Glimmer of Hope]

11. People in a DC suburb are stealing Tide detergent for big profits.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Tide-Bandits-Cleaning-Up-in-Prince-Georges-129764368.html

What is next?