Lifelike Doll Inside Hot Car Prompts Police to Smash Window

Lifelike Doll Inside Hot Car Prompts Police to Smash Window
A man who suffers from senile dementia plays with a doll as a treatment to remind him of the old days at the Cihui Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, on Sept. 2, 2005. (China Photos/Getty Images)
The Associated Press
8/17/2016
Updated:
6/30/2017

A lifelike baby doll prompted police in New Hampshire to smash a car window in a rescue attempt that turned out to be a false alarm.

WMUR-TV reports police in the town of Keene say someone called them last month to report an infant left in a car at a shopping plaza on a hot day. Lt. Jason Short shattered the window with his baton. He tells the station he thought he was looking at a lifeless child, but noticed something was off when he began to breathe into the baby’s mouth.

The station reports the lifelike doll belongs to a Vermont woman who collects them as a way to cope with her son’s death. She says police told her they would pay for the broken window.

“I got there as soon as I could,” Short told ABC. “I don’t know how fast I was going, but it was quick.” What he saw “looked lifeless, looked dead,” Short recalled.

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