NEWS - POLICE LAUNCH FULL SCALE ALERT AFTER MISTAKING A DOLL FOUND IN A PLASTIC BAG FOR A REAL BABY

Police launch full-scale alert after mistaking a doll found in a plastic bag for a real baby

By Tom Gardner
PUBLISHED: 20 April 2012

Blundering police sparked a full-scale alert when they discovered a realistic toy doll discarded on a park bench – and mistook for a real baby.
Shocked Martin Ziegler, 37, raised the alarm when he discovered the 'baby' in a plastic bag at Neu Ulm in Germany.
He told police: ‘The baby is not moving or breathing - and its body is cold to the touch. I think it's dead.’

The doll was so realistic that it even fooled officers who urged ambulance staff to get to the park as quickly as possible.

They then alerted colleagues that the incident was an abandoned baby.
It was only when medics arrived that it was discovered the baby was actually a lifelike doll.
A police spokesman said: ‘It was only when they opened the baby's eye and shone a light on it that they realised the baby was an unbelievably lifelike doll.’
He said they were now searching to track the owner of the valuable doll and to work out how it ended up on a park bench.

what bothers me most about this. is the fact that someone just tossed that doll away, thats art. 

i wonder who the artist is for this doll. MICHELLE

NEWS - DOLLY WALLIES-COPS SMASH CAR TO SAVE BABY, FIND ITS A DOLL

 I wonder how many times this kinda thing happens...MICHELLE

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Dolly wallies

Cops smash car to save baby...& find it's a toy 

Realistic ... doll in car cops broke into

By ALASTAIR TAYLOR

Published: 30 Jul 2011

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COPS smashed a car window to save a "baby" left in the motor on a sweltering day - only to find it was a realistic DOLL.

Chanel Cristofis, five, left the doll called Sam in her dad Anastasi's Vauxhall Zafira when he dropped her off at school.
He then went to work at the fish and chip shop he owns.
But a passer-by in the chippie car park spotted the eerily lifelike £100 Reborn doll and called the police in Worksop, Notts.
Amid fears the "child" could die in the heat, officers broke into the car before realising their mistake.

Reborn doll Sam

Anastasi, 37, said: "I couldn't believe it when the police turned up holding the doll and told me what had happened. The officer told me not to leave it in the car again."
The detail-packed dolls are a hit with little girls. Artists work painstakingly to make them look like real babies - even giving them birthmarks and tiny veins.

Chanel's mum Victoria, 25, said: "She is inseparable from this doll but it has caused all sorts of problems.
"A woman in a supermarket saw Chanel shaking it and was horrified. She asked what sort of mother I thought I was to allow my baby to be treated like that. I can see why the police did it. If it had been real, everyone would be thanking them."
Police are to pay for more than £200 damage done to the car. Sgt Robert Holmes said: "The call was made in good faith. Drivers need to think about what they leave on view in their cars."