In a bizarre incident, Japanese authorities rushed to rescue a woman from drowning, before pulling her to safety and discovering it was actually afloating life-size sex doll.??
The incident reportedly took place on Friday and was?chronicled on Twitter?by YouTuber Natsuki Tanaka, who had initially believed she was witnessing a real-life rescue in the city of Hachinohe off Japan¡¯s northeast coast,?Kotaku reported.
"While I was filming for my fishing video, I thought that a corpse had come floating by, but it turned out to be a Dutch wife," using a common name for the dolls," Natsuki tweeted, originally in Japanese and translated by Google.
It all began happening when a?good samaritan passerby?had mistakenly phoned the authorities over the ¡°drowning¡± woman,?prompting the police and fire departments ¡ª?and?an ambulance?to arrive, ready to rescue what they thought was a person in peril.
As per Natsuki¡¯s photos, featured above, show multiple fire and rescue brigades, police, and an ambulance working to rescue the dummy from the water in front of a crowd of onlookers.??
Thankfully the adult toy was ¡°rescued safely,¡± according to Natsuki.
Twitter user @PowerSportsVoW was one of the onlookers at the scene and captured the incident.?¡°Off Hachinohe,¡± they wrote alongside an image of the doll being pulled from the water. ¡°iIlegal dumping of oversized garbage,¡± they wrote.?
¡°Thank you for your hard work,¡± they concluded with a police officer emoji. (Again, in Japanese, yet translated by Google.)??
As per the report in Kotaku, this is not the first time a suspiciously placed sex doll has been confused for a corpse. In 2018, a sex doll was mistaken for a ¡°body¡± in Colerian Township, Ohio.