December 21, 2017

Man arrested for brandishing his toupee as a "Tasmanian Devil" to torment his son-in-law.

“He walked in as I was already there... He removed his wig, made hand gestures. It’s just a very large fear of mine, his damn wig. Him and his hair reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil hair. I truly and genuinely have a large fear of wigs now. It’s a genuine fear. I have nightmares."

36-year-old Mazen Dayem told the NYT Post.

What's the crime? No crime needed. Dayem had a restraining order.

By "Tasmanian Devil," he doesn't mean the Australian marsupial:
He means the Warner Brothers cartoon character:
By the way, there is a such thing as the fear of wigs. The word for it is (oddly enough) "maliaphobia."

25 comments:

Churchy LaFemme: said...

The irony is that McKimson's Taz is not dangerous at all.

As long as you are Bugs Bunny...

Sprezzatura said...

Nice pic of the devil, but I thought all y'all Madisonians called that rodent looking thing a badger?

Mark said...

Unless it was a no-contact order, that restraining order is BS.

David said...

Getting a restraining order against your wealthy father in law is bad financial planning.

David53 said...

I just got back from a trip to Tasmania. I learned many Devils suffer from a form of transmissible cancer. They transfer their cancer when they bite each other during the mating season. I did not know cancer could be a transmissible disease. Fascinating animals.

Rob said...

No tag for "brandishing"? It's the new garnering.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Taz wasn't scary at all. His wife was a horror.

wholelottasplainin said...

There's another kind of "fear of wigs", called merkinphobia.

Look it up!

pious agnostic said...

I have a deep fear of merkins, so I get where this guy's at.

Ken B said...

Nice to see the word merkin in use. Tony Soprano uses it in an episode, correctly, in a throw away line that is very funny.

Speaking of, what's keeping Chuck under wraps?

gspencer said...

Sounds like a girlie man.

Might have a racist meltdown if he met someone with a real afro?

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madAsHell said...

Obama named his daughter Malia.

Unknown said...

No love for Wombats?

Ambrose said...

I bet it was worth it

Gaijin42 said...

Malia is just the Greek word for hair.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

There are an amazing number of flat ridiculous pseudo-adults in the world. It’s weird that I hardly noticed them until middle-age.

Big Mike said...

So Obama named his daughter after the Greek production of a 1960s rock musical?

FullMoon said...

Headline insinuated Trump and Kushner. Relieved.

YoungHegelian said...

Bill,

Taz wasn't scary at all. His wife was a horror.

I now pronounce you devil & devilish.

walter said...

'Shitter,
That photographed Taz looks nothing like a badger.
Quite intrusive to snap a pic of it right as it's about to pinch a loaf.

Dr Weevil said...

Is malia the Greek word for hair? Looking at the unabridged Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell, Scott, and Jones, it appears that maliophobia with an O in the middle would be the fear of long hair or pigtails (singular malion, plural malia), while maliaphobia with an A in the middle would be the fear of glanders (a horse disease - malie in Greek, which in some dialects would be malia). Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary gives prósthetai komaí (=prosthetic, i.e. added-on, hair), so he seemed to think there was no single Greek word for wig.

Yancey Ward said...

What do you call the irrational fear of a comb-over? Half the country suffers from that.

Unknown said...

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Wince said...

"Oh, my god, that's a giant bush!"

virgil xenophon said...

When my Father was head coach of the Eastern Ill BB team in the 50s/early 60s he had a center who had an imaginary Tamanian Devil "pet" he called TAZ and kept the team in stitches with his "conversations" with it on long road-trips on the team bus. After a while "TAZ" became his knickname as well. I can well remember games where, when Ken (Dad's center) had the ball and other players who were open for the shot calling out TAZ!!