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Published: March. 13, 2009 at 6:00 AM

Bad haircut allegedly leads to bite

JONKOPING, Sweden, March 13 (UPI) -- A dissatisfied customer at a Swedish hair salon faces criminal charges for allegedly biting the proprietor.

The owner told police the woman knocked down a shelf in an angry rampage, Aftonbladet reported. She faces charges of criminal damage and assault.

The woman, 42, had her hair cut Wednesday at the salon in Jonkoping. Police reports said she told employees she did not like the cut before leaving the store and then returned a short time later, demanding a refund.

When her request was refused, she allegedly became violent.

The owner of the salon was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries.

Police said that the woman was sober and not under the influence of drugs.


'Felon' featured real murderer as extra

ALBUQUERQUE, March 13 (UPI) -- The casting director of "Felon," a movie filmed in New Mexico, said he was shocked when one of the extras on the film turned out to be a multiple murderer.

Authorities said Clifton Bloomfield, who was sentenced to 195 years in prison after pleading guilty to five murders during four separate incidents, had already killed two people by the time he was cast in the Sony Pictures movie, which stars Val Kilmer and Steven Dorff, in November 2007, KRQE-TV, Albuquerque, reported.

"We're expecting actors to come to our casting calls," casting director David Cordova said. "I'm not expecting the real thing to come through.

"I don't think anybody else was actually aware that we had cast a mass murderer on the film," he said. "He actually was what he came in to be."

Bloomfield resumed his life of crime after filming for "Felon" wrapped and he pleaded guilty to the murders in October.

Cordova said he can't afford to run detailed background checks on each of the thousands of extras he uses in his films.

"I think about the moments he had the opportunity to be with somebody alone and us not knowing," Cordova said. "It's really scary."


50-pound tortoise stolen from yard

KAILUA, Hawaii, March 13 (UPI) -- A Hawaii family is appealing for public help in finding a 50-pound tortoise that was stolen from the yard under cover of night.

Lori Dias and her family said the 10-year-old female Sulcata tortoise disappeared out of their Kailua yard at about 11:30 p.m. Monday, KITV, Honolulu, reported.

"I heard a noise and by the time I looked out the window. I saw someone. To me, it looked like a young man running by the mailbox there. Before I realized what was happening he was gone," Dias said.

She said the thief likely recognized the animal as a female tortoise, which are particularly valuable.

Dias said the family just wants their pet back.

"If they don't know what Portuguese Cubronte is, it's bad mojo, and I want them to bring that tortoise back and put it in the yard the way they stole it in the middle of the night otherwise they're going to get a lot of bad mojo on them," Dias said.


Moose reported on man's house

MINOT, N.D., March 13 (UPI) -- Authorities in North Dakota said a man called the Ward County Sheriff's Office to report a moose on his roof.

Ward Nostdahl told a Sheriff's Office dispatcher he spotted the moose near his Minot home at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday but it wandered toward his neighbor's house at about 1:15 p.m., KCJB-FM, Minot, reported.

Nostdahl said the moose returned at about 2:40 p.m. and climbed up on his roof. The Sheriff's Office had no further reports of the moose following its climb, KCJB said.

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