Amish Mullet Goons Forcibly Cut Neighbors' Hair!

[missmurchison]

Talk about stories you could not possibly make up.

Comments

[curiouswombat]

You really couldn't make it up, could you?

[missmurchison]

On top of everything else, these guys used electric hair clippers, which would indicate that it's not about strict adherence to the rules. Not that this sort of thing ever is, no matter what the people who have gone off the rails say. The rules are only ever an excuse.

[missmurchison]

There are some who would argue that a mullet is a crime in and of itself.

[jwaneeta]

Weirdly enough, I first read about this on the BBC's sight last week. Scooped again!

[thisficklemob]

Me too! I was talking to someone who thought the guy who went into an Amish schoolhouse and shot girls a couple years ago was Amish, and I was like, no, he was just a local guy -- the big Amish crime wave is that there's a breakaway sect, and they're cutting other people's hair.

[missmurchison]

Yes, that was some non-Amish guy. I can't imagine a mind that wakes up one day and says, "I'm pissed off. I think I'll kill a bunch of little kids."

I've lived in areas with Amish populations, and usually the rebels get arrested for drunk driving, which is actually less dangerous when they're completely intoxicated, because then the horse takes over. Sometimes, if they just get a buzz, they can cause bad accidents.

[missmurchison]

I'm sure it was in the More Weird Things Americans Do section.

[petzipellepingo]

You're right, truth is always much stranger than fiction.

[missmurchison]

Ah, but these guys are following another geezer who spouts nonsense!