Jailed - Bike shop repair owner for hair cutting spree

Man Jailed for Hair Cutting Spree

Apr 7, 10:49 am ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When police finally came to Michael Howard's home, they discovered hair
everywhere: a thin carpet of hair covering the floor, huge mounds on the bed and in the closet plus
photos of severed ponytails lined up as neatly as bodies in a morgue. The cops knew then that they
had finally caught up with the notorious "Haircut Bandit."

For three weeks in December of 2001, Howard cruised the streets of Los Angeles and Long Beach,
California, casing bus stops and park benches for women with ultra-long tresses.

Before he was caught, Howard chopped hanks of hair or entire ponytails from the heads of nine
victims, ages 12 to 45. Investigators began closing in on the bicycle repair shop owner on New
Year's Eve when a deputy sheriff saw him approach a woman at a bus stop and shear off her
waist-length hair.

He escaped -- dropping his scissors and his hair trophy -- but police nabbed him the next day. On
Thursday, Howard entered a surprise guilty plea and was sentenced to eight years in prison for his
hair-razing rampage.

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Could this be my future?

He he, ha!

David Sommerville http://davidsommerville.com [email protected] [email protected]

 

"David Sommerville" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Man Jailed for Hair Cutting Spree
>
> Apr 7, 10:49 am ET
>
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When police finally came to Michael Howard's home, they discovered hair
> everywhere: a thin carpet of hair covering the floor, huge mounds on the bed and in the closet
> plus photos of severed ponytails lined up as neatly as bodies in a morgue. The cops knew then that
> they had finally caught up with the notorious "Haircut Bandit."
>
> For three weeks in December of 2001, Howard cruised the streets of Los Angeles and Long Beach,
> California, casing bus stops and park benches for women with ultra-long tresses.
>
> Before he was caught, Howard chopped hanks of hair or entire ponytails from the heads of nine
> victims, ages 12 to 45. Investigators began closing in on the bicycle repair shop owner on New
> Year's Eve when a deputy sheriff saw him approach a woman at a bus stop and shear off her
> waist-length hair.
>
> He escaped -- dropping his scissors and his hair trophy -- but police nabbed him the next day. On
> Thursday, Howard entered a surprise guilty plea and was sentenced to eight years in prison for his
> hair-razing rampage.
>
>
> --
>
> Could this be my future?
>
> He he, ha!
>
>
> David Sommerville http://davidsommerville.com [email protected] [email protected]
>

Partner of Gian Simonetti ( Simonetti frames) Mike apparently had a cocaine problem for awhile too.
Mike used to do all the aluminum frame building and Gian did all the steel since Gian wasn't good at
working with aluminum. Dave

 

"David Sommerville" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Man Jailed for Hair Cutting Spree
>
> Apr 7, 10:49 am ET
>
> He escaped -- dropping his scissors and his hair trophy -- but police
nabbed
> him the next day. On Thursday, Howard entered a surprise guilty plea and
was
> sentenced to eight years in prison for his hair-razing rampage.
>
>

Eight years for cutting hair?!? Wow..

Cheers,

Scott..

 

> Partner of Gian Simonetti ( Simonetti frames) Mike apparently had a cocaine problem for awhile
> too. Mike used to do all the aluminum frame building and Gian did all the steel since

Gian wasn't good at working with aluminum. Dave

apparently, he was pretty good with scissors. Too bad for Simo, though, it can't be good
for business.