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6 The Amish Hair-Cutting Spree

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It's not often you hear about Amish crime rampages, but when you do, they're hilarious.

For instance, in September of 2011 a man who was driving to a horse auction with a bunch of Amish passengers unwittingly became Jamie Foxx in a Mennonite version of Collateral when the passengers requested that he stop at a number of homes along the way. Each time, the men would jump out, race inside the home and then run back out and ask him to keep driving. The driver thought it was weird, but who was he to question the quaint and bizarre customs of the Amish?

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He's doing either air guitar or air sex. That bottom hand could really go either way.

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It turns out that these men were part of an outcast Amish gang who called themselves the Bergholz Clan, and they frequently terrorized other Amish folk by bursting into their homes and cutting off their victims' beards and hair. The gang leader was an exiled rogue Amish bastard out for revenge, an unpleasant man named Sam Mullet.

No, really. His crime was cutting people's hair, and his name was Mullet. Like an old-school Batman villain.

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They're just hustlers getting hoes and plowing some God-given fields.

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But Why?

Amish people aren't allowed to shave their hair or beards, as the girth of a man's beard is an indicator of his masculinity, and also apparently God has a problem with it. So the Bergholz Clan decided to strike the Amish community with the worst insult they could conceive.