Hooded assailant cuts high school girl’s hair before fleeing on bicycle in Miyagi

Monday 29th June, 04:32 AM JST

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nandakandamanda at 11:14 AM JST - 1st July

This reminds us all of a recent murder where the perp cut off the girl's hair before burying her in a bath of sand.
Himajin at 11:19 AM JST - 1st July

Same thing on child abuse threads, 'What a country this is, that people abuse their children' makes me wonder if a lot of these posters were kept in a closet or a cave all their lives before they came to Japan...:-P
IchyaWarFare at 11:48 AM JST - 1st July

Just glad the only thing the girl lost was some hair. Hopefully they will catch the guy...I hope...
nandakandamanda at 12:09 PM JST - 1st July

So, what, he cycles home and puts it in a ... pot or something for safekeeping and the occasional sniffing? Reminds me of that book and later movie, Patrick Siskind's 'Perfume'.
electric2004 at 12:42 PM JST - 1st July

Seems to be a copycat from the movie "3 angels for charlie, full throttle", which was last weekend on TV. In this movie though, the lady detective and the cutter were both riding moto-cross bikes. Also in the movie, the cutter was dressed in black, and had a black helmet.
bushlover at 01:03 PM JST - 1st July

Man people in japan can be weird. I'm just glad she is alive. The weirdo has probably already used the hair.
PepinGalarga at 01:23 PM JST - 1st July

hilarious! the guy cut loose before the bicycle cops could grab him by the hair.
Monoflow at 03:48 PM JST - 1st July

Probably harmless, but kind of weird society... this land of the rising sun...
Altria at 03:48 PM JST - 1st July

Drive-by trimming.
kirakira25 at 05:27 PM JST - 1st July

This is one case where I can't roll my eyes and say "ah, Japan"! here in the UK when I was 18 some git set fire to my hair in a bar!!! I have crap hair anyway so no great loss and I only lost a couple of inches off the end, but this story is a little freaky - a phantom hair-cutter ona bicycle. Wasn't there a dodgy 80's thriller movie about this?
BeaverCleaver at 06:13 PM JST - 1st July

"The boy, for it must have been a boy, surely, will go home, masturbate with the hair and probably never do this again."

I am not usually one to push the panic button, but I doubt it in this case. Going so far as to attack a random innocent person with scissors, even just to cut hair, smells to me like a case that will escalate into worse crimes or at least contiinued attacks. There are many instances of random slashers in Japan. I am sure they start small too.

I might agree he will probably not do it again even if he were caught and released and at least got a little brush with the law. But what I actually hope for is some time in jail, not years, but perhaps weeks. I also hope he gets a good psych evaluation.

Anyway, I am not laughing about this at all.
sensei258 at 08:19 PM JST - 1st July

I'll bet it was a female classmate who wanted to get revenge for something, like a stolen boyfriend, etc.
usaexpat at 11:56 PM JST - 1st July

Another nutter with a fetish, I'm glad it was only her hair that was cut.
Icewind007 at 05:04 AM JST - 2nd July

Hmmm... you need a person's hair to make those voodoo dolls... I sense a mystical revenge plot!
Cynthia at 09:05 AM JST - 3rd July

The man is either a stalker, or he's obsessed with her.