Robot vacuum cleaner sucks up woman's hair while she's asleep
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A 52-year-old woman from South Korea was jolted from her slumber after her robot vacuum cleaner mistook her hair for dust and sucked it up, according to the Guardian.
The unnamed woman tried desperately to untangle her hair but was unable to.
Desperate, she called the fire department for help, according to South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun.
Firefighters soon arrived and managed to free the woman's hair from the apparatus.
Fortunately, the woman did not sustain any serious injury to herself.
As for the blundering vacuum cleaner, its fate remains unclear.
Source: Metro, The Guardian
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