BARBER SHOP OF HORRORS
Stylist stiffedstiffed, beaten – and then fired!
He had an epically bad hair day. A Bronx barber was beaten to a pulp by an irate customer wigging out over a lousy cut — and was then fired because the shop’s manager believed he was the “aggressor” in the brawl.
The longtime customer popped by the Diamond Cuts shop in Tremont at around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 but was dissatisfied with the 53-year-old barber’s handiwork and refused to pay.
Other workers at the shop offered to touch up the shoddy job, setting off the proud barber’s apparently hair-trigger temper.
“No, you’re not fixing nothing! I want my money!” the “aggressive” barber roared, the shop’s manager told The Post on Saturday.
But the customer refused to turn over the dough. The coiffeur then “grabbed,” “shoved” and “swung” at him and yelled, “I’m gonna kill you!” according to the manager, who said he watched the wild scene unfold on surveillance video.
The client then grabbed a hairbrush and whacked the barber, police said.
The barber chased his customer outside, where he was met by two of the man’s friends — who joined the fray. A female suspect hit the beleaguered barber several times, while a second man clobbered him with a baseball bat, authorities said.
All three suspects sped off in a white 2014 Nissan Altima with New Jersey plates, while the barber was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with an elbow fracture and doctors administered 15 stitches to close a gash near his left eye, cops said.
But the manager, claiminf the customer was acting in “self-defense,” canned the barber — who had worked at the shop for only three weeks.
“I saw [what happened], and I was so disgusted. You don’t do that,” he said. “We go by the oldschool code: The customer is always right.”
Police were still searching for the three suspects Saturday.
The Bronx fracas is the third incident against barbers in the past two weeks.
George Thomas, 37, was busted for hurling a Molotov cocktail at El & John’s Barber Shop in Brook- lyn on Feb. 17. And on Feb. 9, a hotheaded Brooklyn customer shot a Fifth Unisex Salon barber in the pelvis because the victim asked the man to stop bothering the customers.