Thursday, April 16, 2009
Annals of crime: Beware Russian hairdressers
If this does not warn you away from the clutches of Russian hairstylists, I'm not sure what would. A Russian stylist named Olga has stolen a march on Sweeney Todd:
In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days after he unsuccessfully tried to knock over her beauty salon....
The robber, a 32-year-old man identified by Life.ru as "Viktor," burst into the salon at around 5 p.m. waving a pistol and ordered all of the stylists and clients to hit the floor and toss him their money.
At this point, 28-year-old Olga, whom Life.ru describes as a "delicate" girl trained in martial arts, was apparently still standing when she offered to hand over her cash. But when Viktor tried to accept her contribution, Olga surprised him with a quick punch to the chest, knocking the wind out of him before she flipped him to the ground.
Olga proceeded to tie Viktor up with a hair-dryer cord, gagged him and dragged him into a storage room.
Curiously, Life.ru reports, Olga instructed the others to keep working, telling them that the police would soon arrive.
But this feel-good moment for the good guy proved ephemeral. Things soon turned ugly, according to Life.ru.
The police did not come. And after the other stylists and clients went home for the evening, Olga told Viktor to "take off his underwear" and, with apologies to John Cougar Mellencamp, let her do as she pleases, lest she call the cops, Life.ru said.
She tied him to the radiator with handcuffs covered in frilly pink fabric, gave him some Viagra and had her way with him several times over the next 48 hours. When she finally let him go on the evening of March 16, Viktor had been "squeezed like a lemon," Life.ru reported.
Like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie, only less believable.
CWCID: A faithful reader.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Thu Apr 16, 11:55:00 AM:
lol... better'n be treated like the Gimp in Pulp Fiction, no?
By 
Escort81, at
Thu Apr 16, 12:00:00 PM:
Hmmm. I go to a one-woman shop that is owned by a Ukranian emigre, but it's across the street from a church and around the corner from the police station, so I feel safe.
How is it that Olga had Viagra on hand?
And where is Ving Rhames when you need him?
By Viking Kaj, at
Thu Apr 16, 12:31:00 PM:
I wonder how that would play at Georgetown?
Viktor isn't a Jesuit, is he?
By , at
Thu Apr 16, 01:30:00 PM:
True or not, it is a very funny story. Thanks a bunch for the laugh TH. I think it has movie potential.
By , at
Thu Apr 16, 03:42:00 PM:
The rest of the story:
Victor now suing Olga for rape and assault and Olga suing Victor for attempted robbery. Local cops joking that both must go to jail and spend few years in the same cell.
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Apr 16, 11:24:00 PM:
You know, some people pay well for that kind of treatment...
