Passport photo blooper gives woman 'cone-shaped' head

Embarrassing: A woman in the US returned her passport after a 'printer error' elongated her forehead.
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A US woman was horrified to find her new passport image had been distorted thanks to a printer error, giving her an elongated forehead.

Charlie Ramos, from Austin, Texas, sent her passport from renewal to the US State Department ahead of a trip to Europe.

But she was shocked to find the unusual error, believed to be caused while being printed, when she flipped it open before her travels.

Her forehead had been doubled in size, giving her an unflattering cone-shaped head, which her boyfriend Reece Lagunas thought was hilarious.

Amused by the error, he posted a picture of the peculiar passport photo online, causing a flurry of jokes comparing the photo to characters from the film Coneheads.

Mr Lagunas told The Huffington Post: “As soon as I saw it I just started laughing. It’s one of the funniest ‘bloopers’ I’ve ever seen ... and it wasn’t mine.”

Ms Ramos was waiting to receive a new passport after returning it to the State Department, who Mr Lagunas said have been “super helpful” in attempting to rectify the problem.

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