Cut-and-run law needed for barbers? Probably not

My barber friend John DeCicco was telling me that some guy ripped him off for the price of a haircut this week. The guy claimed he had to go to the bank machine next door to the Continental Barbershop on Victoria Street to get some cash for payment, and never returned.

I suggested that maybe barbers need a version of the law that makes prepayment mandatory at gas stations to prevent gas-and-dash thieves. It could be called the cut-and-run law, or maybe DeCicco0’s law.

But then John acknowledged that, in all his time barbering, this is only the second time a customer has skipped out on him without paying.

Which isn’t bad, since John DeCicco will celebrate this 50th year as a barber in August.