Lifelike, ‘Reborn’ 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

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 said that 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.