Worst Haircut Ever? Barber Arrested After Snipping Customer's Ear Intentionally

A hairstylist in Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested after he gave a customer an unwanted “Larry Fine” hairdo from the “Three Stooges,” and intentionally snipped his ear, reports said Wednesday.

The incident took place on Dec. 22 when the 22-year-old victim, who was not identified, had gone to Ruby’s Salon to get a haircut. He asked for a fairly simple haircut: the sides of his head shaved with a number two clipper, and an inch of hair cut off the top.

However, the stylist, identified as 46-year-old Khaled A. Shabani, first snipped the customer's ear intentionally, the customer claimed.

As the victim began to bleed profusely, the barber allegedly put the zero attachment on his clippers and shaved a severe, bald line right down the middle of the customer’s head, according to the police.

The customer got up from his chair and fled the salon but Shabani kept taunting him, police said.

“You want a zero, right?” Shabani reportedly kept shouting, according to a police report.

Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain told the New York Post that the victim told officers the hairstylist told him to stop fidgeting and moving his head too much, before nicking his ear.

DeSpain said that the hairstylist then ran the clipper with the shortest attachment down the middle of the customer’s head, “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from the ‘Three Stooges,’” according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

After the customer fled the salon and called the police, Shabani was arrested and charged with mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed.

“While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut, you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with scissors,” Despain said in a statement, the Miami Herald reported.

Shabani pleaded not guilty to the charges and reportedly told police it was an accident. The victim later got his head shaved elsewhere to match the streak Shabani allegedly gave him, police said.

Similar unpleasant incidents have taken place earlier. In June 2011, a barber in Trenton, New Jersey, was arrested after he allegedly bit a customer’s ear because of a dispute over how long a haircut was taking, police said then.

The incident took place when James Dillard, 40, who was at work inside the Beauty and the Beast Barber Shop on the 700 block of Chambers Street, was cutting the hair of a 24-year-old man from the city.

Dillard and his client reportedly started to argue about the pace at which Dillard was cutting the hair, and the client decided to get up and leave the shop, police said. The client reportedly slammed the shop’s front door behind him when he left, causing the glass in it to break.

In response to this, Dillard rushed outside and confronted the young man, police said. The pair then began to fight, and during their struggle Dillard allegedly bit and partially severed the 24-year-old’s ear, police said.

The ear however remained attached to the 24-year-old’s head, and he was immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment. Dillard was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, a Daily Mail report said then.