Barber Sells Spaceman’s Hair, Gets A Legal Warning

There are various levels of weirdness in the world. There are people who love celebrities so much that they try to be them, maybe by having their hair cut to look more like them.

Then there are people who would try and get a strand of a celebrity’s hair to keep as their own.

And then there are people who would spend £1650 on a celebrity’s hair trimmings. That level of weirdness exists in one man. And his name is John Reznikoff.

John Reznikoff has collected hair from all kinds of famous people, like Albert Einstein, Napoleon and Marylin Monroe. And Neil Armstrong. But this last one has given the spaceman a bit of a headache.

Neil Armstrong used to regularly go to Marx’s Barber Shop in Cincinnati to get his moon-hair trimmed. But he stopped as soon as he found out that the owner of the shop, Marx Sizemore, had been rather creepily stashing away Armstrong’s trimmings in order to sell it.

Neil Armstrong heard that his hair had been bought by Reznikoff to add to his frankly sinister-sounding hair collection, valued at £550,000, and has now given Marx a legal warning, unless the hair is returned or a large donation is made to a charity of Armstrong’s choosing.

This is a story where there are no winners. Marx Sizemore should know better than to sell his customer’s hair. Neil Armstrong probably got what he deserved - if we had to listen to him droning on about the pissing moon all the sodding time, we’d probably try to steal his hair, too.

And John Reznikoff… well, collecting hair is just plain weird. What does he do with it all, anyway? Make lots of celebrity hair wigs for his own amusement? Is he planning to fire the hair into the sun so he can make an evil squad of nuclear hair celebrities to do his freakish duties, like in Superman IV (DVDs)?

Actually, we’d rather not know.