• Long-haired women in Myanmar warned to watch out for hair thieves
  
• Thieves surreptitiously snip their ponytails to sell as extensions
  
• 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds) of hair worth $300-400

YANGON, Myanmar(AP) -- Women in Myanmar not only have to watch out for pickpockets when they're commuting, shopping or walking down the street, but also hair thieves, a weekly journal reported Sunday.

Long-haired women in crowded areas have fallen victim to surreptitious hair snippers who steal their hair to sell, the Burmese-language 24/7 news journal reported.

"My long hair was cut while I was on my way back from the office. I found out only when I got back home," an unidentified female bus commuter was quoted as saying.

The woman said her friend's tresses were cut while she was walking down the street and she only noticed when some remaining strands fell. Another woman's hair was cut while she was shopping at a roadside store, the journal said.

Many women in Myanmar have waist- or knee-length hair which they wear in a ponytail, making it easy for thieves to snip off the hair and sell it as extensions.

Women are also approached by hair traders who ask to buy their long hair, the journal quoted the bus commuter as saying.

The report said the price of hair has increased as demand for hair as an export or raw material rises. A viss (1.6 kilograms; 3.5 pounds) of hair is worth between 400,000 kyats ($320) and 500,000 kyats ($400), it said.

The hell...? Um, this isn't unnews, is it...

Hmm...interesting business venture. Perhaps I shall go to Myanmar to succeed in this most lucrative of industries!

Zero better watch out, he's got 400 bucks worth of gold waiting to be snipped.

I think Iris would have to worry more--she's got a LOT more hair than Zero.

But..psssssst....

Iris is DEAD.

FYI.

So is Zero.

But Zero came back. He always comes back.

-Ri

He hasn't shown up since Zero 4, and Giro and Model Z doesn't count.

But Zero always comes back.

Iris doesn't.

She's dead.

FYI.

PROTIP: Dead reploids that aren't main villains (or sidekick villains)/characters don't come back.

Explain the Mavericks from the Xtreme games then.

Also, if Zero was gonna come back, he'd have done so by now.

Trust me, somehow, someway, Zero's not dead... He always comes back. Iris, though- well, she lasted all of one game, and that was quite awhile ago. (And I might like her better if she'd A) had a better voice actor and acted the way she had in the Japanese version, but I guess that was less "kid-friendly.")

-Ri

He's been absent from one game. >__> The day Zero, officially, OFFICIALLY dies is the day Capcom goes in the toilet. Sorry to say, but fangirls more or less run the company now. >_>

Fanboys, too, Teej.

-Ri

But mostly fangirls.

Yeah, so Zero never dies. HE LIVES IN OUR HEARTS. I'VE GOT THAT ZERO, ZERO, ZERO, ZERO DOWN IN MY HEART.

WHERE?

DOWN IN MY HEART TO STAY.

Odd... somehow hair-snipping thieves evolved (or devolved) into a canon discussion about Zero's comebacks, and the Xtreme games.


Ack! What's - oh, come on, Chewy! S'not my fault you're worth billions! No, man, you put down that crossbow and come over here!

*buzzing, wookie squealing*

Well, IO, that's how you get rich quick, if you're wondering. Off to the hair merchants!

Anyone seen Cousin It? *Hiding clippers behind her back.*

-Ri

I already had to give up his position because I was told Thing would kill me if I didn't - he's off to the nearest Wal-Mart to buy a coat or something.

Chewy, where is your father?

People snatching the hair of innocents? I think it's time to call on...



Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo!

*points at Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo's nose* It appears he, too, has been taken care of.