Student gets clipped after massage turns nasty
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-09-01 16:52

One is a social elite, a college student who said he just wanted a simple massage. The other says she is a simple beauty parlor massage girl. Now, the two who were seemingly distant to one another are linked in a legal case that will have to be decided in court.

A scissors-free barbershop that allegedly runs illicit body business in Beijing is raided by local police. [Beijing Morningpost]

It's more than a regular tangle between a massage girl and a customer that involves the police，a college junior, a beauty parlor worker. It is also leading to assumptions and doubts all around.

Events unfolded as a Beijing college student known as Zhang Ye visited a hair salon for a refreshing massage from a girl. The trouble began after Zhang unilaterally refused a particular girl's service out of fear of catching an infectious disease after he saw her eyes were a shade of red.

Zhang wanted to leave the salon, but was forbidden to go unless he provided the young woman with 40 yuan for her trouble. Zhang grabbed a fruit knife he had attached to his key chain and threatened the woman named Huang, and demanded to leave. Frightened, Huang laid 90 yuan and her cell phone on a table while Zhang indicated he was only defending himself and wasn't trying to extort the salon.

Huang called the police. Zhang, in a diehard bid to make clear himself of any charges of extortion, stayed until officers arrived to take Huang's report.

In China there are scissors-free barbershops where scantily clad young girls can make money by questionable means. Some shops are fronts for prostitution, which is illegal though widely practiced. Those girls are usually involved in serving migrant workers who suffer greatly from sexual deprivation while living apart from wives or lovers.

The college student Zhang Ye, described in news reports by his college peers as an honest man, would have been hardly the kind of person to visit a hairdresser.

An official with the college the student attends said Zhang Ye, as an adult in society, should be responsible himself for what he does, and the school cannot vouch for all his behavior.

According to a lawyer hired by Zhang, his act cannot be called extortion because after Huang reported the alleged crime to police, he did not flee and waited until officers arrived.

University officials also confirmed Zhang makes good grades. He added that the school wished to make no additional comments and will await the court's judgment.

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