London police stop to help 'collapsed person,' get an odd surprise
LONDON -- In a job that's probably filled with unpleasant surprises, it must be a nice relief when something that appears to be grim actually turns out to be entirely innocent.
It's happened before with the British police. There was the "person who sounded in distress" and turned out to be a goat and the "injured otter" that was nothing more than a fake fur collar.
And when the Lewisham Central Safer Neighbourhoods Team was out patrolling on Wednesday, it happened again.
"There was an alleyway with a trolley full of goods at the entrance and there was something that looked like a person slumped over so we went to investigate," a spokesperson told the London Evening Standard.
Turns out it wasn't a person they found.
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Let's go for a close up on those.
The spokesperson went on to confirm the finding was a teddy bear with a bottle of coke, dressed in a cardigan.
"He clearly was a little worse for wear from the night before," they said. "Though at least it wasn't anything too serious."
