Man in China supposedly beaten up over David Beckham haircut
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If you’re planning on traveling to China with a David Beckham-esque haircut, please use caution.
According to China Daily, a man from the Tongzhou district was beaten up multiple times by a group of men who were angered by his David Beckham ‘mohican-style’ haircut.
The man with the Beckham haircut (here’s Beckham’s current style) claims he was beaten up by five men with a ‘stick and an empty beer bottle’ after he refused to call his friends so that they could have a gang fight.
The man was then taken to a river and beaten up a second time after the gang saw him trying to hail a taxi to go for medical attention. The local prosecutor says the gang dunked his head in the river in an effort to ruin his hairstyle.
Three men have been arrested in connection with the attack and could face up to five years in prison.
I know what you’re thinking -- what the heck is this all about? Does anyone know if Beckham is considered some sort of sporting hero in China who cannot be mimicked in any way? Or were these guys upset someone was trying to go for a hip, metrosexual look that Beckham has helped make popular in certain corners of the world? Ideas?
-- Austin Knoblauch
