39. The Barber Suicides

The floor was littered with discarded equipment: five large pruning scissors, four broken handsaws, three saws completely blunted, one de-teethed chainsaw, one empty blow torch, three large, emptied toolboxes... But the one Ah-mo hair he was working on was showed only small scratches.

The frustrated barber then took out his final piece of equipment from his toolbox - laser beam generator. The laser beam is similar to those used to cut through the thickest of the strongest materials, including diamonds and gems.

As the beam was fired onto Ah-mo's hair, it glowed red hot, but yet showed no other signs of breaking. And still nothing after a whole minute. Neither was there any change after 5 minutes. Nor 10 minutes.

Just after 20 minutes, when the barber was about to give up all hope, the hair finally broke, and fell to the ground with a "bonk". As the barber celebrated victory, running all around the cell screaming and shouting yelps of joy and power, he suddenly caught sight of something...

Another hair was growing well in place of the cut hair. In fact, it has already reached half the height of the remaining two.

"ARGH!!!ARRGGGHHHH!!!AARRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!" And the barber ran out screaming, pulling chunks of whatever remaining hair he had from his scalp...

(Footnotes: No humans were killed in the making of this story. The prison guards somehow managed to stop the barber from leaping off the top of the sentry tower.)