FlyAway Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Anyone think barbers might pay a little more attention to the service they provide? ILOILO CITY—A man who disliked his fresh haircut hacked the barber to death in Calinog town, 48 kilometers from this city, on Wednesday, police said.Charlie Agustino, 48, died from multiple hack wounds after he was attacked by Benjie Lozada, 36, inside Rammy’s barbershop at the public market. The assailant was believed to be mentally disturbed.The victim, who had worked as a barber for seven years and was also a pastor of the local Baptist church, died while being treated at Calinog District Hospital.Senior Police Officer 1 Elmer Sanchez of the Calinog police station said Lozada had his hair cut by Agustino in the morning. At around 3 p.m., Lozada, now armed with a bolo, returned to the place, looked for the barber, then went on a rampage.Sanchez said the assailant immediately went to the police station on foot to surrender after the killing. Lozada appeared calm and still had the bloodstained bolo in his hand when he arrived just as a team of policemen was about to go to the crime scene.“He told us that he did not like the way his hair was cut,” Sanchez told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the phone on Thursday.Lozada is believed to be mentally disturbed and recently had a nervous breakdown, the officer added.According to Police Officer 1 Mark Warren Castillo, Lozada said he was teased about his “uneven” haircut upon reaching home and that he had to use “two mirrors” to check if it was really that bad.An enraged Lozada then took a motorcycle back to the barbershop, which was about 10 km away, Castillo said.As of Thursday, Lozada was being held in a separate cell away from the two other detainees at the station. Unsatisfied customersSuch a case of a bad hair day ending in mayhem is not without precedent.In March 1997, Romeo Adrales of Manila, fed up with the teasing over his haircut, returned to his barber, Bonifacio Delgado, and stabbed him to death with a butcher knife, according to a report by The Associated Press.“(The) killing apparently was triggered by too many repetitions of the standard Philippine wisecrack for a bad trim: ‘Is the barber still alive?’” the US news agency reported.In the United States, 20-year-old Joshua Robert Schwartz was arrested in January 2008 for reportedly stabbing a 60-year-old barber in San Diego, California, who gave him a haircut he considered unacceptable. The barber survived.In one case in India, it was the barber who ended up silencing a complaining customer.In June 20, 2011, the Indo Asian News Service (IANS) reported that a barber in the Guntur district of Andrah Pradesh state stabbed a client to death “after the latter pulled him up for not cutting his hair properly.”The barber got angry when the customer, unsatisfied with his haircut, returned to the shop and picked up an argument with him. The barber then stabbed him with a scissor, the IANS report said. With a report from Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research http://newsinfo.inqu...-in-iloilo-town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 (edited) You missed the MULTIPLE barbers killed by our muslim brothers in Iraq / Afganistan. Of course it was their own fault for defying the taliban's intrepretation of islam in which it seems that the muslims are not allowed to decide how to have their hair cut, as it is too difficult a decision to make by ones self. Lucky for them, the taliban says the 'correct' way for men to have their hair cut is spelled out in the Quran. Edited December 2, 2011 by Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jollygoodfellow Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Its not all cut and dried in my opinion :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call me bubba Posted December 7, 2011 Posted December 7, 2011 here is an update to this story.MANILA, Philippines — Philippine authorities say a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed his barber after he was teased about his new haircut has been shot dead inside a jail by the victim's brother. Mayor Alex Centina of central Calinog town says the brother of the slain barber pretended to be bringing food to the detained Benjie Lozada on Tuesday. Then, he shot him in the face in front of Lozada's mother. Lozada had turned himself in last week and confessed to killing the barber and town pastor Charlie Agustino inside his shop after relatives teased him about his haircut. Police said the suspect was taking medication for mental illness. The town police chief was fired for security lapses. Police say they were busy with preparations for the town's fiestahttp://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/06/barber-killed-over-haircut-brother-kills-suspect/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyAway Posted December 8, 2011 Author Posted December 8, 2011 Vigilante Justice at it finest on might say. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted December 8, 2011 Posted December 8, 2011 watch out Sweeny Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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