Police in the upstate New York city of Hudson smashed a car window Friday morning, believing they were valiant heroes rescuing a senior citizen whom a passerby said had “frozen to death.”
A press release from the agency said that they “received a call from a very upset citizen who stated that she discovered an elderly woman ‘frozen to death’ in her Subaru parked along City Hall Place, Hudson. Officers, and the Greenport Rescue Squad were immediately dispatched.”
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“Officers arrived minutes later and observed an elderly woman seated in the passenger seat wearing an oxygen mask. She was not moving and was unresponsive. It was bitterly cold, (around 8 degrees) and the car had snow cover, indicating it may have been parked there overnight.”
Officers determined that the woman was not dead but in fact a life sized mannequin.
The owner of the vehicle returned to his car and said that he is a sales manager for a company that manufacturers medical training aids and the “woman” is a CPR training device.
The police were not happy with the explanation but there are not any charges pending in the incident.
