BARBER SHOP MURDER? About a week ago, an old guy who owned and operated a small video store in Orange, New Jersey was beaten to death with a hammer during a store robbery. Orange is an old urban area that has seen better days. It\u2019s really just an extension of Newark. The old guy and his family had operated the store for years and years, back before there even were videos (it was originally some kind of electric repair shop). They moved out to the suburbs, but the guy still kept the old store opened and tried to stay involved in Orange. <\/p>\n
Another urban tragedy. But here\u2019s the urban sociology twist to it. I was sitting at my desk at work today, listening to some assistant prosecutors shooting the breeze. (Recall that I work in a county prosecutor\u2019s office, and Orange is located within our county \u2013 so this murder is \u201cone of ours\u201d). One of the big wigs said that a barber shop had recently opened near the video store, and was attracting \u201cthe wrong element\u201d. Arguably, it was someone from this \u201celement\u201d who did the old guy in (my inference, not an official statement of my office). <\/p>\n
Wow, I didn\u2019t know that barber shops were becoming hang-outs for the bad guys. Back in my day, barber shops were mostly for clean-cut guys. Criminals didn\u2019t get their hair cut very much. I guess that things in the city have taken a turnabout. For a while, there hardly seemed to be any barber shops left \u2013 they had been replaced by \u201csalons\u201d. But now, barber shops are back \u2013 but they may not be the safe and stodgy kind of place that they used to be. Barbershop harmony has a very different beat today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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