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Police mistake mannequin for elderly woman, break into man's van to save her

Posted at 1:04 PM, Dec 19, 2016
and last updated 2016-12-19 16:04:52-05
Police in Hudson, New York, broke into a car to help what they thought was an elderly woman with an oxygen mask left out in the cold.
 
As it turns out, the woman was actually a realistic, life-sized mannequin.
 
The owner of the car sells medical training aides, and the mannequin was a CPR  training dummy.
 
Police say they'd do the same thing all over again. It wasn't clear if they were going to pay for the man's broken window.