Sopping Up An Oil Slick With Castaway Hair & pantyhose--guess who is giving the pantyhose

[underpants]

As it turns out, hair adheres to oil pretty efficiently, which is why your hair gets greasy. Now salons are donating their discarded locks to help with the Gulf Coast cleanup.

A group in San Francisco has been producing hair booms for nearly a decade now. Matter of Trust makes nylon stockings stuffed with human hair and trimmed animal fur.


Well, some people still do. Gautier says the great thing about being based in San Francisco is the city's transvestite community, which has readily donated nylons. The group has also received donations from Wal-Mart and Hanes.

After the booms are constructed, they're tied together with zip-ties. Then this clump of what looks like hair sausages is shoved into a long mesh liner to make a bigger hair boom to be laid along the waterline.

And beyond donating hair, thousands of people in the Gulf region are volunteering to make the booms — shoving fistfuls of hair and animal fur into nylon pantyhose. But that's what volunteers will be doing later this week during parties dubbed "Boom-B-Qs."


EDIT forgot the link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126536482

[foxfeet]

1. Drag Queen Eco-Amazons Rock!

:applause:

[underpants]

4. That is great huh?

My wife told me about this at dinner. Had to check it out and share.

San Francisco doing it again

[Sabriel]

2. I could go for a brat right now

Mmmmmm, bratwurst....

[tridim]

3. Be sure to eat a handful of hair with your brat to keep the cholesterol down.

:think:

[Initech]

5. That is awesome and hilarious at the same time!

[Berry Cool]

6. You know what they say--"Never watch sausage being made."

This is a great idea.

[Blue Owl]

7. Looks like something from the Karl Rove collection

n/t

[ChickMagic]

8. Tabitha Cofffey talked about that

on her show "Salon Takeover". That's one thing she does when she
remodels salons. She has a can for swept up hair that is picked up by
people making hair mats for oil spills.

[slampoet]

9. Worlds worst tasting Keilbassa, hands down.