Weave Thieves? Bad Karma?

How many of you would buy your bundles off the street?

It seems the black market has been buzzing with the newest trend, human hair. Thieves are taking to stores and stealing premium hair and bundles and selling them in the street for less than the retail price. While some bundles can reach up to $200, trying to cut corners may be some people's first option.

Freaky fact about that stolen Indian Remy is, in Hindu tradition, the hair from birth is associated with undesirable traits from past lives. Thus at the time of the mundan, the child is freshly shaven to signify freedom from the past and moving into the future. It is also said that the shaving of the hair stimulates proper growth of the brain and nerves, and that the sikha, a tuft at the crown of the head, protects the memory

So isn't that like double bad karma sewn into your head?

St. Louis today reports,"In the Atlanta area, a series of smash-and-grab robberies that began this spring at beauty supply stores has resulted in at least $100,000 worth of hair being stolen. Similar thefts have taken place in Chicago, Houston, San Diego and other cities nationwide where the take has ranged from $10,000 to $150,000 worth of hair per heist."

Isn't enough that in a billion dollar business, black women represent the lowest number of recipients and investors in the industry? By the way, one store owner in Michigan was killed in a robbery gone wrong. So not only in a quest to be different, glamorous, luxurious...we are infatuated with the strands of other people, but now it's by any means necessary?

I'm not sure the remedy. Do we stop buying weave all together (That's not going to happen)? Do we boycott the black market sellers (That's not going to happen either)? It reminds me of blood diamonds...how much integrity do you have? Because somewhere, someone is being hurt by purchasing goods that have not been through the correct economic process. I'm just saying, the next time someone pops the trunk and there's that 1B bundle, ask where it came from...and how.