How absurd is the following sentence?

"As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors."

The Washington Post publishes an over 5,400 word story this morning exploring Mitt Romney's high school career as a prankster, including this story of a time when he teamed up with a group of boy to cut the floppy blond locks of John Lauber, described as a "a soft-spoken new student" who was "perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality."

That's just one of many stories 'exposed' by the Washington Post, in a story that sets this narrative: Romney was an entitled rich kid who bullied people different than himself to get laughs from his peers.

For men who have attended all boys schools, a hair cutting incident is remarkably tame.

Where are the 5,000 word stories about Obama's teen years?