Cops smash car window to rescue ‘old woman freezing to death’ inside after owner left mannequin in front seat
Police were alerted to ‘freezing woman’ by distressed member of the public but when they tracked down the owner he said he was furious at their actions
COPS broke into a car to rescue an ‘old woman’ after she was spotted by a distressed member of the public who thought she was ‘freezing to death’.
After smashing the window and taking a closer look at her officers discovered that she wasn’t actually a person but a life-like mannequin equipped with clothes, glasses, shoes, teeth and even skin blemishes.
The car was covered in frost and snow suggesting it had been parked there overnight when temperatures in the area dip down to -13C at this time of year.
The newspaper reports that the local force received a call from an “upset” member of the public who had passed by the car and spotted what they believed to be an old woman “frozen to death” with an oxygen mask on.
After rushing to the scene, breaking into the car and realising it was a dummy strapped into the front seat – officers went in search of the vehicle and mannequin’s owner.
They eventually tracked him down and he explained that he used the dummy in his job selling medical training aids.
The local police chief said the owner was also “incredulous” that his officers broke his car window to rescue the mannequin.
Chief L. Edward Moore said: “He apparently was quite vocal and vulgar to my sergeant.”
The police chief also had this message for other mannequin owners: “Just to clear the record, all citizens of Hudson should be put on notice that if you park your locked vehicle on the street on a sub-zero night with a life-size realistic mannequin seated in it... we will break your window.”
He told local news outlet WAVY: “If [placing the life-like dummy in the car] was a joke, it was a very poor, tasteless joke.”