Just read this on our local news. Thought you ladies with the bad haircuts might appreciate it.
OLYMPIA - Talk about having a bad hair day.
A local woman's bad experience at an Olympia salon got way out of hand. One thing led to another, and now she could go to jail -- all over a haircut!
"It was bad, I cried when I got home," said Dana Kelly. It started Oct. 8: "I was getting ready to start a new job on Monday."
Kelly went to Audrey's in Olympia. It's a salon she says she's been using - happily - for six years. But this time, Kelly says the cut was bad, the customer service was worse and the manager wasn't interested in her complaints.
"I said, 'you know, I'm not comfortable paying for this,' " says Kelly, "and I took my credit card back from her and I walked out."
But Audrey's reported her to police.
After investigating, Olympia police cited Kelly with theft of services - punishable by a maximum of a year in jail and $5,000 fine.
"Those are kind of scary words," says Kelly.
KOMO 4 News tried to talk with the owner or manager at Audrey's, but both were unavailable.
According to the police report, the manager says she warned Kelly that she would call police.
Olympia's Prosecutor Paul Wohl can't remember ever prosecuting anyone over a haircut. But he says although the amount of money is small -- just $37 -- it's typical of the 3,000 cases they prosecute in a year. And, Wohl adds, business owners deserve action.
"It wouldn't be any different if a grocery store experienced a shoplifter, or any other business experienced a loss by theft," Wohl said.
Wohl also says there's something called a "Compromise of Misdemeanor" law where Kelly could pay restitution and then the charges would be dismissed.
But Kelly's not buying that; she says it's a matter of principle.
"I'm not going to pay it, I didn't do anything wrong," she said.
So Kelly is looking for an attorney and planning for her court date, the day before Thanksgiving.
did not wrap when we were kids. Somehow that fact was forgotten the first year our kids were big enough to really know about the big guy.....and their gifts arrived wrapped. 
