September 03, 2008 Categories: Weird News
TOKYO: Police were trying to determine yesterday whether they were victims of a hoax after the body they thought they found at a seaside resort was actually a life-sized doll.
Investigators found what seemed like a body wrapped in a sleeping bag in a forest in Izu City after an anonymous caller reported seeing it, a Shizuoka prefecture spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
Investigators never looked inside the sleeping bag and brought it back to the city police station for a post-mortem examination, the spokesman said. A medical examiner unwrapped it and found the doll, she added. — AP