Police officer surprised to find baby he rescued from hot car was a lifelike doll
A police officer in Keene, New Hampshire, broke a car window last month
to retrieve what he thought was a baby locked inside, only to find it
was a lifelike doll.
On July 23, Keene police Lt. Jason Short was dispatched to Walmart for a
report of a baby in a locked car. It was very hot that day and as soon
as Short saw what he thought was a baby’s feet poking out from under a
blanket in a car seat, he smashed the window in.
Short pulled the blanket away and saw what he thought was a dead child.
He lifted the baby out and breathed into its mouth, but its lungs did
not inflate.
A nurse told Short it was a doll. Short saw that the mouth did not open
and it had no ear canals.
So he concluded it was a doll
and cancelled a call for an ambulance.
Short said the doll’s owner told him the doll was designed to be as
realistic as possible, and that it looked and felt like a real baby.
Police have paid to fix the car window and the doll's owner, Carolynne
Seiffert, has bought a bumper sticker saying that the doll isn't a real
baby.
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