Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Speeding bullet stopped by hair weave KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Kansas City, Mo., said a woman's tight hair weave stopped a bullet, keeping her from injury and likely saving her life. Advertisement Officers said they arrived at the Country View Market at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to find the woman's boyfriend had allegedly shot out the back window of a car, KSHB-TV, Kansas City, reported Thursday. Investigators said the woman wasn't injured after her hair weave stopped the bullet and her boyfriend was taken into custody. Swedish PM declines tattoo offer STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has declined an artist's offer to have his chest tattooed with a design featuring a Viking-style ship. Reinfeldt wrote to Gavle artist Sebastian Norde, 22, who previously sent the prime minister his proposed tattoo design and a letter explaining how the body ink would help the prime minister's popularity among the country's young people, The Local reported Thursday. Advertisement "Thanks for your letter," Reinfeldt wrote. "I think it's a very beautiful image; you really have talent!" "It's just not for me, quite simply," he wrote. "Hopefully our politics will reach people without me having to get a tattoo." Norde said he wasn't surprised by the rejection. "It would have been cool if he'd gotten it but I sort of figured he probably wouldn't," he told The Local. "It's pretty cool that he answered at all. I didn't expect that." However, the artist said he hasn't given up his dreams of tattooing a politician -- he has sent letters to other prominent Swedish officials with drawings of tattoos that he designed for them, The Local said. "They all ought to think about getting a tattoo," he said of Swedish politicians. French military horse goes on Paris run PARIS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Garibaldi is normally a mild-mannered steed but threw his French Republican Guard rider and took off through the streets of Paris. The 15-year-old horse galloped through several intersections late Wednesday morning with police cars trailing him, the BBC reported. He suffered slight injuries in several falls during the 15-minute escapade along the River Seine, police said. "There was no way of stopping him -- he wanted to get to his stables," Lt.-Col. Pierre Rousseau said. Advertisement The Sun reported Garibaldi's run has become an Internet sensation with Le Parisien garnering 6,000 hits within an hour of the video being posted on its Web site. The incident began during a routine patrol at the Elysee Palace, the official home of President Nicholas Sarkozy. Police said Garibaldi galloped to the Place de la Concorde from the Elysee before heading to the river. As he approached the Louvre, he skidded and fell to avoid hitting a parked truck. As he approached city hall, a policewoman leaned out of a squad car window and managed to stop him, The Sun said. Rousseau said Garibaldi is normally well-disciplined and with 10 years of loyal service, no disciplinary action is expected to be taken, The Sun reported. Punk band sticker causes bomb scare MEMPHIS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Traffic was shut down at a portion of Memphis International Airport after police confused a sticker for punk band This Bike is a Pipe Bomb for a real threat. An airport police officer spotted a bike bearing the sticker outside of the airport's Terminal C Monday night and the owner of the bicycle was detained and searched by authorities before being released, the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal reported Thursday. Stickers for This Bike is a Pipe Bomb have caused similar incidents at Ohio University in March 2006 and in Washington in 2003. Advertisement Ryan Modee, lead singer of the band, told the News Journal he was at work when he heard about the latest incident. "I was at work and just kind of freaked out," he said. "I was like 'Oh, God, not again. How could this be happening?'"
