Ja: I man no longer dread

A 49-YEAR-old 'dreadlocks' from a Handsworth, Birmingham, England address whose 'locks' were cut off by police to get to 0.56kg (1lbs. 3.67 ounces) of cocaine that was hidden there when he was arrested at the Sangster International Airport on February 10, told the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court it was like cutting off his hand.

Michael Grant, a senior member of the 'Nyah Binghi' order of the Rastafarian sect who the court heard has traveled extensively between Jamaica, England and Ethiopia where he hoped to eventually settle, said the police cutting off his locks was the "ultimate disgrace" and that he was "totally humiliated."

The dread wasn't humiliated and disgraced by his criminal activity, nor was he humiliated and disgraced by the way cocaine use ruins the lives of many. None of that humiliated and disgraced him. Cutting off his locks did, though. Interesting morality.