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Here's a recent Blotter doodle that I enjoyed drawing. You know, I've been cranking out these weekly illustrations for Creative Loafing's crime report for six (or is it seven?) years now, and I've decided that my favorite illustrations are the ones that include a sort of hidden joke -- taking the actual text of the police report and reading something into it that may not be there on first glance. That was definitely the case this week. My editor nearly didn't get the joke. But then she did, and she loved it. (Whew!)

I also have a bad tendency to draw animals. Like, a lot. So I guess this one's guilty on both counts.

Here's the actual item, written by Lauren Keating:

SPLITTING HAIRS? A 24-year-old Decatur woman said she got the wrong type of hair from a salon about three weeks ago. She said she was supposed to get human hair woven in, but later found out that she actually got synthetic hair. So she called police. "The hair cost her $180 to put in, and now she is claiming that the hair won't curl." So the officer talked to the owner of the hair-braiding salon on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. "She claimed the hair is really human hair," the officer wrote. The Decatur woman was adamant about filing a police report, since she believes she received the wrong services. No charges filed.