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http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0%2C1518%2C445882%2C00.html
"Wal-Mart is making life difficult for Oscar Brufani, a 52-year-old man who makes his living delivering potato chips in Buenos Aires. One of the corporation's store managers thinks he looks like Osama bin Laden -- and won't let him come near her store.
Oscar Brufani delivers potato chips in Buenos Aires -- and he looks a lot like Osama bin Laden.
Oscar Brufani has only shaved three times in his life -- the first time when he was 18 and needed to have his picture taken for his passport. He felt naked.
The second time came when he was given a medical examination. He felt humiliated. And to this day he still regrets the third time: He was 24 years old and wanted to do his wife a favor. She was pleased, but their three little daughters ran away -- frightened by the man with the bare chin. It was then that Brufani swore to himself he would never shave off his beard again.
And so he let it grow. And now his face has become a legal issue. It's keeping lawyers busy, as well as Argentina's National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism. Oscar Brufani, a normal man with a beard, finds himself fighting a multinational corporation. His fellow Argentinians are backing him -- thinking the North Americans must have a few screws loose -- and he's on the evening news. Brufani would never have thought his beard could cause quite so much trouble."
Seems really screwed up to me! Just another reason to ban men with anything resembling hair.
...looking like himself. He would shave off his beard and dress like
everybody else.
The lady who runs that Wal-Mart is overreacting.
yeah definately. theres a big difference between looking like Osama Bin Laden and BEING Osama Bin Laden.. That lady needs to get back on her medication. lol
thats pretty sad, its also bad business by walmart
But it's hardly surprising.
Wal-Mart isn't know for its non-discriminating policies.
JeffL