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Title: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: bijou on May 24, 2008, 02:59:50 PM: Quote
HOUMA -- Shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, a Houma Police officer handed 32-year-old Clyde Scott a ticket.

Scott was on Main Street, smack in the middle of downtown Houma, but he wasnâ€™t in a speeding car, parked illegally or even jaywalking.

Rather, Scott was inside his barbershop cutting hair, trimming up a few students readying for their Monday-night high-school graduation ceremony when officer Michael Toups walked in.

"He said heâ€™s giving me a citation for opening on a Monday," Scott said, who has owned Clippas barbershop for about two years.

Little did Scott know, a decades-old city law forbids barbers from plying their trade on Mondays -- or Sundays for that matter.

"I was just open to cut those guysâ€™ hair," Scott said. "I do cut some Mondays or Sundays."

The law also bans barbershops within the city limits from opening on New Yearâ€™s Day, the day after New Yearâ€™s, Mardi Gras, Good Friday, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, the day after Labor Day, All Saintsâ€™ Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the day after Christmas.

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link (http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20080521/ARTICLES/805210332/0/OPINION)

Hey everyone, it's not Florida!
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Willow on May 24, 2008, 03:05:58 PM: not this time, but Fla. is gonna kick some azz in Nov. :lmao:
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:10:23 PM: I'm wondering what kind of cop knows antiquated laws such as this. How f'n stupid.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: bijou on May 24, 2008, 03:13:23 PM: Quote from: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:10:23 PM
I'm wondering what kind of cop knows antiquated laws such as this. How f'n stupid.
Chief Wiggum?
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:15:12 PM: Hairaphobic bastard.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Chris_ on May 24, 2008, 03:26:42 PM: Quote from: bijou on May 24, 2008, 03:13:23 PM
Quote from: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:10:23 PM
I'm wondering what kind of cop knows antiquated laws such as this. How f'n stupid.
Chief Wiggum?

What a bald attempt to use his power.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: bijou on May 24, 2008, 03:32:04 PM: Quote from: freedumb2003 on May 24, 2008, 03:26:42 PM
Quote from: bijou on May 24, 2008, 03:13:23 PM
Quote from: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:10:23 PM
I'm wondering what kind of cop knows antiquated laws such as this. How f'n stupid.
Chief Wiggum?

What a bald attempt to use his power.

Yeah, that's the sort of behaviour you'd only expect from Officer Barbraidy.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: dutch508 on May 24, 2008, 03:34:11 PM: Quote from: freedumb2003 on May 24, 2008, 03:26:42 PM
Quote from: bijou on May 24, 2008, 03:13:23 PM
Quote from: Rebel on May 24, 2008, 03:10:23 PM
I'm wondering what kind of cop knows antiquated laws such as this. How f'n stupid.
Chief Wiggum?

What a bald attempt to use his power.

That hairdly counts as a pun.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Rick on May 24, 2008, 04:16:14 PM: You are really splitting hairs when you say this is not in Florida. It is just across the line in Louisiana.

and

Hey, what part did you not understand, he broke the law.
Title: Re: Barber ticketed for cutting hair on a Monday
Post by: Texacon on May 24, 2008, 05:06:12 PM: He was just a cut above the other barbers ... that is the long and the short of it. :tongue:

KC