Police officers in the United Kingdom closed off a road for 31 hours after a walker found a “d3ad body” in wood.
However, after closing the road, they discovered the ‘d3ad body’ was actually a ‘dirty and overused’ sex doll someone had dumped.
The ‘crime scene’ in Kineton, Warwickshire, was cordoned off by police and a forensic pathologist was called in to investigate after what appeared to be a hand and foot were spotted in undergrowth by a country lane.
Police later disclosed what they thought was a female corpse wasn’t human remains but a ‘realistic‘ inflatable love aid, which could be worth up to £1,500.
A local source told The Sun: ‘The police thought they had a murder investigation on their hands so called in a forensics team.’
‘When they finally dragged the ‘corpse’ out they realised the blunder. The officers had a big laugh about it. It was a very dirty, broken and overused s*x doll,’ they added.
Officers were said to be hunting for clues from midday on Tuesday to 7pm the following evening.
Warwickshire Police said it had followed ‘proper procedure’.
A spokesperson added: ‘It is with great relief that we can announce the pathologist was able to identify the foot and hand beneath the bush did in fact belong to a discarded and realistic life-size doll.’
Some speculated the sex doll had been placed in the woods as a practical joke.