After spending roughly four hours in a Kelvin Grove salon getting her hair done, a Brisbane woman popped out to ‘quickly move her car’, never to return, and leaving her hairdresser to foot her $750 bill.
It’s an expensive haircut, sure, but the woman copped a full head of hair extensions, colour corrections and more, according to owner of the salon, Mia Buchanan, who took to Facebook to launch a (wo)man hunt for the alleged thief.
The woman who left a fake name and number has since been identified, thanks to the post, and is apparently wanted for a slew of offences.
“Running off from a small business without paying for hair services is the least of her problems” Buchanan wrote in an update.
“I’m a small-business owner and a single mum with two kids,” she told the Courier Mail.
“It’s just not right.
“I don’t know how they can spend four hours in a chair, be so personal with someone and then just do that.”
From now on she’ll be asking people to leave something behind when they move their cars, she says.
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Top Comments
This thief let her pic be taken??
I would be careful still with the ol' "leave something with us" trick.
I'm a beautician, working next door to hairdressers for 17 years.
There is the toilet trick, duck out to toilet, do a runner.
The "just gona grab my card from the boyf" trick.
And our fave, the "leave something with us". They've left purses, bags, whatever. They just go buy a $2 purse at good sammies and use that as their decoy. Or an old, useless phone.
A driver's license would be better. But it's always awkward to not trust someone whom you've spent all that time with. Still, it's a business and good clients will respect that.
I was robbed at the tender age of 15 when a kind, young man came in to our shop and asked me to please heat up his babies milk bottle in our microwave. I did it. Heard the till open manually but he was where I left him when I ran out.
He stayed for the bottle too.
At the salon I go to, you have to pay a deposit for hair extensions when you order them.
They need to be ordered first for a colour match.