Barber Arrested After Bloody Bad Haircut

MADISON, WI — Barbers often hear "just a little off the top" when a fella comes in for a haircut, but a Wisconsin stylist heard something far more unusual when he was done shearing a customer's head: "You're under arrest."

Khaled A. Shabani, 46, didn't just deliver a bad haircut, according to Madison Police, he intentionally snipped a 22-year-old man's ear with scissors and shaved a bald swipe across the top of his noggin just before Christmas. Shabani claims his customer was fidgety, and his choppy effort was just an accident because the man moved his head.

Shabani, a stylist for Ruby's Salon, faces mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed charges for the Dec. 22 incident.

The customer, who went elsewhere to have his head fully shaved, had requested Shabani trim the sides of his head with No. 2 clippers and snip an inch off the top with scissors. He accused Shabani of twisting his ear, too, before drawing blood with his scissors.

Shabani used clippers on a "zero setting" to shave the swath down the middle of the customer's skull, police said. A Madison police spokesman said the customer looked "a bit like Larry from the ‘Three Stooges’” after his encounter.

"He wanted a fresh coiffure for Christmas, but ended up with his head shaved and his ear bloodied. While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut, you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with a scissors," spokesman Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

I have been accidentally snipped by a pair of scissors when my stylist was trimming around my ear. But the shaving of the strip of hair down the middle of the customers head? Not even close! I don't know who owns this salon, but perhaps they had best do better back ground checks on their stylists! Or give them time off to go home and get their meds if they forgot them that day!

Guy in the first chair butchered my hair and didn't pay attention to what I wanted. He also insisted that my ancestors worked on the railroad.

And some of the reviews before the incident aren't so great, either. (And what's with all the blood?)

When I got to Ruby's I was seated immediately but the main guy didn't want to listen to what cut I wanted to get. He was in a huge hurry even though there was only 1 person waiting. Zero conversation, which isn't a big deal to me but I was astounded when he ended up drawing blood from my ear! He blamed me for the cut, right in the center of my ear...Then he said I should be smarter than that if I went to school in Madison. When I left he pointed at my ear and said have fun...

The salon was trying to draw in more customers so I decided to go in and try out their $10 men's haircut. The man instantly seated me down, and, as I was about to tell him the style I wanted, he interrupted me to say, "I don't care. I know what your hair needs." To which I, dumbfounded, remained silent. The haircut went quickly, silently, and in a matter of minutes it was done. One thing I noticed during my cut was that there was not a cosmetology license displayed anywhere in the room, which was extremely unnerving.

My boyfriend came here to get a haircut who is clearly bald. He's head was cut up, missing spots and his skin was irritated. All they could say is " your skin is so sensitive" and make unprofessional remarks during his haircut. He asked that he didn't pay for all it since he was bleeding for most of his haircut.