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  • Woody

    Oct. 7, 2011 5:43 a.m. Woody SuperDork

    Amish mob violently breaks into homes and cuts off hair

    http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/280229/71/Amish-mob-violently-breaks-into-homes-a...

    Steubenville, OH (WOIO/CNN) - An Amish mob is accused of breaking into several homes and cutting off the beards and hair of other Amish men.

    Now, the group is the focus of four police investigations in Ohio.

    Police say the assaults are the work of members of the "Bergholz Clan."

    In one attack, the men allegedly packed a horse-drawn buggy, rode to a home and cut the hair off some men and women in the house.

    The violent haircuts are meant to humiliate and punish those Amish who are supposedly weak in the faith.

    It's left the police baffled.

    "Well it's pretty bizarre for us, we've never had anything like this happen here before," said a Steubenville officer.

    In Holmes County, the suspected bandits may face assault, burglary and kidnapping charges.

  • Will

    Oct. 7, 2011 6:00 a.m. Will Dork

    Need some of those Ohio Amish--where's John Book?

  • JoeyM

    Oct. 7, 2011 6:07 a.m. JoeyM SuperDork

    ....

  • 1988RedT2

    Oct. 7, 2011 6:29 a.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

    It's hard to make a clean getaway when the getaway vehicle is a horse-drawn buggy.

  • Woody

    Oct. 7, 2011 7:26 a.m. Woody SuperDork

    But if everyone else has a buggy, blend right in.

  • slantvaliant

    Oct. 7, 2011 7:37 a.m. slantvaliant Dork

    Q: What does an Amish drive-by sound like?

    A: Clip clop clip clop BANG BANG BANG clip clop clip clop ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

  • pinchvalve

    Oct. 7, 2011 7:37 a.m. pinchvalve SuperDork

    Finally, being folically-challenged has an advantage!

  • N Sperlo

    Oct. 7, 2011 7:42 a.m. N Sperlo Dork

    KSDK, St Louis: Where Ohio's news comes first.

  • Giant Purple Snorklewacker

    Oct. 7, 2011 7:46 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

    What do you suppose these people did to deserve late-night haircuts? Not inviting the Bergholzes to the barn raising? Sleeping past 4:30? Cutting back on the animal organ content in the stew? Secretly using power tools?

  • carguy123

    Oct. 7, 2011 8:32 a.m. carguy123 SuperDork

    Those crazy Amish are at it again. You aren't safe anywhere anymore.

  • 4cylndrfury

    Oct. 7, 2011 8:41 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork

    Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

    What do you suppose these people did to deserve late-night haircuts? Not inviting the Bergholzes to the barn raising? Sleeping past 4:30? Cutting back on the animal organ content in the stew? Secretly using power tools?

    my guess is zippers...closing your pants with metal teeth is Satan at work...

  • N Sperlo

    Oct. 7, 2011 8:51 a.m. N Sperlo Dork

    In reply to 4cylndrfury:

    chomp.

  • slefain

    Oct. 7, 2011 9:10 a.m. slefain SuperDork

    Amish blanket party?

  • familytruckster

    Oct. 7, 2011 9:28 a.m. familytruckster Reader

    Steubenville.....

    Hehe.... Traci Lords' hometown...

  • DaveEstey

    Oct. 7, 2011 10:18 a.m. DaveEstey HalfDork

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

    They climbing in yo windows, cutting your facial hair. Tryna shave your family so hide your kids, hide your wife. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, Hide your husbands too cuz they shearing everybody up here.

    You don't have to come and confess, we lookin for you We gonna find you. So you can run and till that run and till that run and till that Farm boy Farm farm farm boy.

  • jrw1621

    Oct. 7, 2011 11:17 a.m. jrw1621 SuperDork

    Another, more local account:
    http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/562574/Cops--Amish-clan-attacks-fa...
    More to the story including a custody battle, sexual offenders and a $35 million dollar federal lawsuit.

  • Rusted_Busted_Spit

    Oct. 7, 2011 11:27 a.m. Rusted_Busted_Spit SuperDork

    Wow. I used to live not far from Steubenville.

  • ThePhranc

    Oct. 7, 2011 11:34 a.m. ThePhranc Reader

    Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

    What do you suppose these people did to deserve late-night haircuts? Not inviting the Bergholzes to the barn raising? Sleeping past 4:30? Cutting back on the animal organ content in the stew? Secretly using power tools?

    The power tool bit may not be far off. A lot of Amish today are fully connected with smart phones and such. It tends to be the ones out in the real word who need it to run businesses so their families don't starve.

  • Giant Purple Snorklewacker

    Oct. 7, 2011 11:44 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

    ThePhranc wrote:

    ...some words... and I felt like quoting him as a reason to post this pic...

    Those folk have a different way of doing things all-right.

  • Oct. 7, 2011 12:33 p.m. Joshua HalfDork

    Sounds like something that would happen in a Mel Brooks movie.

  • 4cylndrfury

    Oct. 7, 2011 1:41 p.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork

    with all the crazy names like Mesopotamia and Mullet, and then toss in the oddball stuff about using a trailer as a getaway car, I thought for moment I was reading the onion...

  • Oct. 7, 2011 9:26 p.m. fasted58 SuperDork

    Amish know how to roll

  • Oct. 7, 2011 9:30 p.m. fasted58 SuperDork

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 7, 2011 10:20 p.m. EastCoastMojo SuperDork

    Been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise

  • carguy123

    Oct. 7, 2011 10:25 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

    Joshua wrote:

    Sounds like something that would happen in a Mel Brooks movie.

    +1

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