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Matthew writes: Las Vegas resident Roy Johnson was attacked today by his Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, which apparently became confused when the man tripped in the room while the vacuum was running.

“Before he could do anything, the Roomba scuttled up to him and got that little plastic spinning brush thing caught in his hair.” Said close friend Ziggy Schimdt. “Roy shrieked in pain and jumped up, but the vacuum just kept winding his hair tighter. It was on him like the impregnation creature from Alien. He fell back over, and the Roomba dragged him towards the door. It took a few minutes to get the thing turned off. We had to cut his hair out of it. There was hair everywhere.”

Roy’s remaining hair is in stable but serious condition after hair dressers styled around the patchy bald spot as best they could. The Roomba is being confined to an unused bedroom until repairs are completed.