Having A Bad Hair Day

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Cops: Woman robs salon in revenge, uses money at competing salonThe Associated Press
Updated: 5:26 p.m. ET April 22, 2005RICHLAND, Wash. - A woman apparently dissatisfied with a haircut robbed a hair salon at gunpoint, shot at her stylist’s car, then used part of the money to pay for a trim at another shop, police said.


Julie A. Anderson, 48, was booked for investigation of first-degree robbery and second-degree malicious mischief.

Employees told police the woman showed up Wednesday at Stage 1, a salon she had patronized for years, and asked to speak with her regular stylist, who was not in, police Capt. Mike Cobb said.

The woman waited in the parking lot and pulled a gun on the stylist when she arrived. She then walked back into the salon and demanded $100.

Employees gave her the money, then locked the door after she left and called police.

The woman got into her car and started to drive away but stopped, got out and fired at least one round into the back window of the stylist’s car, Cobb said. She then threw the gun through the shattered glass and fled, he said.

She was arrested about 45 minutes later as she left another hair salon nearby.

The woman paid with a $20 bill, apparently from Stage 1, and then walked out to her car, where she was arrested, Cobb said. The woman told stylists she had received a bad haircut some time ago.

“She said she was a dissatisfied customer,” Cobb said.