Baldness As A Defense

Crime in Brazil is pretty bad:

IN a new twist in Rio de Janeiro's crime files, scissor-wielding thieves have clipped off the long, flowing locks of a 22-year-old Brazilian woman as she rode in a city bus.

..."Then all of a sudden I felt someone pulling my hair. My friend tried to help me but they just cut it off, right at the base.''

..."This is a new kind of crime," said a police officer at the station where the report was filed.

"They really did mean to steal her hair."