A five hour police hunt for a corpse ended in shock when the body turned out to be a lifelike sex doll.
The ‘dead body in a blue plastic bag’ was first spotted on Saturday evening by a dog walker at a demolition site in Rostock, northern Germany.
It was only once homicide investigators, police drones and fire engines were at the scene for five hours did they discover the human remains were actually something entirely different.
The alleged corpse was in fact a lifelike female sex doll.
The love buddy had even been set on fire in several places and stuffed into a blue IKEA bag.
Bemused police officers then carted off the synthetic doll and a funeral director, hired to transport the body to a morgue, was told to go home.
The cordon and crime scene were hastily deconstructed, what has already been labelled ‘one of the most bizarre police operations in criminal history’.
This is not the first time a human sex toy has been mistaken for a dead body.
Police officers in the US state of Georgia responded to a call of a female body found along a hiking path in the Hitchiti National Forest.
After racing to the trail they unearthed a discarded human-sized sex doll.
The blonde-haired doll was dressed in a short blue shorts and a pink tube top and appeared remarkably lifelike when partly submerged in the woodland.
Cops quickly dubbed the doll Selena and collected her as evidence.
They department then joned on Facebook that Selena was ‘a little under the weather’ but ‘has been having a nice day and is expected to make a full recovery.’
The Police assured Selena’s owner that their DNA would not be collected, but stressed the importance of not littering.
The post went viral and received more than 39,000 likes; 35,000 shares and 7,500 comments.
Sex Dolls have become increasingly popular over recent years as the sex toy market has expanded worldwide.
There are 130,000 monthly searches on Google for “sex doll” and “sex dolls” in the US alone.
In the UK, sex toy companies reported that sales of the dolls skyrocketed during lockdown.
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