If you have beautiful flowing locks and are travelling around Rio de Janeiro, then be careful as recently, scissor-wielding thieves cut off the waist long dark brown hair of a 22-year-old Brazilian woman as she rode in a city bus. “We got on at the same stop and they sat behind me,” sales assistant Mirna Marchetti said. “Then all of a sudden I felt someone pulling my hair. My friend tried to help me but they just cut it off, right at the base.” The culprits also stole her handbag and her mobile phone before escaping. Police suspect the thieves hope to sell the hair to a hairdresser.