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Subscribe to RSSA customer who killed his barber after being teased about his haircut was shot dead by the victim's brother, according to reports in the Philippines.
The Cebu Daily News said Benjie Lozada was killed Tuesday inside a police station where he was being held. He was found with a gunshot wound to the head.
Senior police inspector Aron Palomo told the paper that Nonito Agustino, the slain barber's brother, used a homemade shotgun in the attack. The paper said his older brother Charlie Agustino had been hacked to death last week.
Palomo added that police had been preparing to file the murder complaint against Lozada when the shooting occurred. Agustino was arrested at the scene, Palomo said.
The Associated Press reported that Lozada was taking medication for mental illness.
Mayor Alex Centina, of central Calinog town, said Nonito Agustino had pretended to bring food to Lozada before the shooting, which happened in front of Lozada's mother.
The AP said relatives had teased Lozada about his haircut.
The town's police chief was fired for security lapses. Police said they were busy with preparations for the town's fiesta.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The ultimate bad hair day.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Great minds . . . .
The difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is about two weeks. He was halfway there when he went over the edge. Wow.
Let's get the NRA over there. That will put an end to this mess of home made guns.
More like 5 minutes - the time it takes to shave your head. . .
And this was a mens cut. Imagine what would have happened if the barbar botched his gf's color and cut... Holy crap!
Lozada won't need to take more medication or haircuts.
Really?!
A trim and a haircut - bang bang......
Eh, and my girlfriend is going to the Philippines for a family reunion. Lets pray she stays safe.
She'll do fine, as long as she doesn't get a haircut.
She'll be fine. She's leaving the US, so she won't have to worry about getting shot. No worries.
I am wondering if in the Philippines the chances of someone making fun of bad haircuts will diminish?
This is horribly written.
Yes. Does anyone write a lead anymore?
Randy, please. You almost seem surprised.
Yes it is, whats the fiesta the police are so busy with, barbershop day?
The town was preparing for Saint Barber's Day festivities.
Bizarre - I mean, you have a hacking death (machete?) over a haircut and then a revenge killing with a home-made shotgun. If it wasn't so brutal and sad, it would be humorous.
If it weren't so brutal and sad, it probably wouldn't have happened in the PI.
He shot the guy in front of his mother. Tomorrow's headline will be about the mother killing the shooter. This will never end until all the relatives/friends/barbers are dead.
It was an ear for an ear until someone brought a gun;)
So, what was bad about the hair cut?
Yeah, pics please.
Dude was shot in the head with a home made shotgun... probably not a lot of hair left to see. I don't think you want a picture of that. I hope...
Haircut bullying must end. We need a law to protect bad haircuts from discrimination.
Spoken like a true Liberal. More laws More laws More laws
Harley: I hope you're being as sarcastic as Freakz was othewrwise you need to learn the internet better
I think he was kidding.....
@ Harley, since when did the liberals want more laws? What the heck are you talking about. It's the greedy conservatives that use laws to collect dollars to pay for God knows what? and put the poor, that are more likely to break laws, in jail... #justsayin' Anywho, that statement, as well as this one is irrelevant. This situation is sad. Period.
Gentlemen;
I thought it was more than evident as to the amount of "DRIP" I put into that post, yes, it was meant to be extremely, sarcastic. I tried to put it all in "upper" case but Newsvine chastised me for "hollering" so with only allowed to "speak" I was only able to come up with that to try to out-do freakz on his post, uh, Freakz in the words of a great american, "I feel your pain." (Better Guys?)
Another problem solved with a gun. Next.
People who can make guns from scratch should be illegal!
;)
Another bad haircut avenged with a machete. Next.
Then you would have to incarcerate 99% of the US Marine Corps, because thats where I received my million dollar education in weapons and explosives. From home-made zip guns to crew served weapons....from backyard an/fo to mining grade tovex....letter bomb to truck bomb.....I thank the USMC for my skills and education.
So he avenges his brother's killing, then spends the rest of his life in prison. I can't determine who is more mentally ill.
Well, given that the guy could only have spent possibly a week or so in prison - if that - so far, you're sort of assuming a lot there. He could be released any day. Cop a plea and do a year. Whatever. Who's to say he'll spend the rest of his life in prison for taking out a criminally insane nut case?
msnbc - whoever writes these articles does a shabby elementary job
Somebody had a hair trigger day.
Oh Ted... not sure whats worse. The article or your pun! It did make me smile though :)
As I finished reading this...um...article - I swear I heard Elmer Fudd's laugh, followed by the Looney Tunes theme!
I'd like to see his mug shot so we can judge for ourselves.
I agree Eli. I mean we havent seen the hair pics yet maybe the slaying was justified. Who are we to judge without seeing how bad the doo really was
At least it wasn't those radical Amish people this time.
Good point sir. The Amish have been known for there hair and beard rage. They are not to be trusted
Hide yo beard, hide yo wife!
If a bad haircut results in a double slaying, I would hate to see a bikini wax go awry.....
People sure are getting testy on this f##ked-up planet.
Just because someone writes an article about ONE incident, suddenly that confirms your world view.
Look at historical statistics. We live in perhaps the most peaceful time in the history of mankind with respect to violence.
Google: "World becoming less violent" and read the Huffington Post article (I can't post links STILL).
This has nothing to do with testes. The penis-snipping story came out a couple of days ago.
@ Miker: I see what you did there lol
Buy a haircutting kit at Costco for $25 and save over $40/mo. And your time and gas too. Touch up any time you like.
It`s not rocket science. Barber and clown college are the same after all : )
If people realized how easy it is , barbers would be out of business !
I used to cut my kids' hair. Basic cut was pretty easy. Then my son wanted me to try to "layer" his hair. Let me tell ya. . . I'm surprised he didn't hack me up with a machete.
I might be upset too if someone put a bowl over my head, and I stood up looking like Mo.. -lol
The killings were all just wrong, even if "I" sort of understand the brothers reasons. The first death there was no reason for in the first place.
Wife used to work for a salon (30 years ago.) Between me and my two sons...now 14 +21...I figured the money saved by her cutting our hair/// $20,000! Only problem is...I've had to choose my appointments wisely. Have learned not to schedule if I pissed her off for some reason. A ticked-off wife with shears can be disastrous. And I'm not talking Bobbitt scenerios....just hair styling.
I used to cut hair, too & people would piss me off WHILE I was cutting their hair. Sometimes took a little more than 2 weeks for that haircut to grow out! ;-)
What's the difference between a bad haircut and a good one?
Two weeks.
Ennngggghh. Thanks for playing.
For a guy? 5 minutes. The time it takes to shave your head!
A town has got to have its priorities, I suppose.
So much stupid, so little time. I wonder if it was a mullet?
And, was the barber watching Edward Sissorhands at the time?
it had to have been a mullet haircut's do NOT get worse than that.
The police were preparing for the town festival! LMAO! This fool hacked a man to death over a haircut! Well - I guess he did not take his medication that day - well we will have no more of that! That really is true isn't it - he is dead!
Ok time for a serious question! How do you make a homemade gun? "The Sheriff said it was a homemade shotgun". I have heard of someone adapting or modifying firearms to take on different abilities - but homemade? Maybe it was just a bad choice of wording for the Sheriff. When I think of home made - I think of something from scratch with raw ingredients or supplies. Did he really put the gun together from scratch? You can't buy some sugar cookies in the store and put sprinkles on them and call them homemade - the same goes for like muffins - you can't buy muffins and put your own icing on them and call them homemade. So I think the same would go for guns or firearms.
You've never visited a prison or crime museum, have you? A "gun" - if you define one as nothing more than a tube from which you can launch a bullet - is very simple to make. Piece of pipe. Nail. Simple mechanism to drive nail into back end of shell. . . Plus, Filipinos are nothing if not amazing imitators. I've seen them rebuild entire car body panels using nothing more than sheet metal, a hammer and a block of wood.
I caught a kid in Watts with a home-made pistol. It was loaded. This happened in the 60s.
Wow!
I need to get out more!
Home-made as in completely fabricated from items not normally associated with a firearm....
Like you take a piece of galvanized plumbing pipe with an inside diameter to hold a shotgun shell,
insert the shell with the rim of the cartridge catching on the edge of the pipe.
Place a piece of similiar pipe with an inside diameter large enough to tightly fit over the outside diameter of the first pipe.
Have a cap on the second pipe with a nail or pin welded inside of it so when you slide the two against each other the pin strikes the primer of the shotgun shell igniting the powder creating a rapid expansion of gas forcing the buckshot or projectile out the path of least resistence or the open end of the pipe which at that time should be facing your target.....
Pipe gun, zip gun, bang stick etc etc etc.........
Your mind is your primary weapons system, everything else is just tools and equipment.
For a minute there I thought my 12 year old son wrote this article - it was horribly written!
I am sorry that your 12-year old son's education has been inadequate! On the upside, he's already more than qualified to write for MSNBC. In another year, he will probably be overqualified, but perhaps they'll decide to hire some actual editors by then.
What in the world???