Saturday 31 July 2010

"We're sending our love down the well..."

Reports of a body in a well in Worthing led to a six-hour police operation on Tuesday night.
Oh no! How awful. How...

Waaaait a minute:
A hand had been spotted in several feet of water in a well at a derelict property in Eriswell Road.

Firefighters drained the well - and when the water level fell it became clear the "body" was a prosthetic hand.
D'oh!

Oh, well, who could've forseen this sort of...

Hang on, something seems familiar about this. Haven't I seen this story - or something like it - somewhere before?

Ah. Right! At Al Jahom's blog:
Part of a motorway was closed and dozens of police officers and a force helicopter were scrambled to the scene after a fake severed arm was spotted by the roadside.

Motorists who spotted the shirt-clad arm with a bloodied stump dialled 999 thinking an horrific accident had taken place.

But when officers converged on the scene – closing the M62 for more than three hours and leading thousands of drivers to be diverted – they found the ‘arm’ to be a plastic Halloween-style toy.
Oh, well. At least, this time, CID didn't get involved...

4 comments:

Jiks said...

"Well, well, well. What have we here?"

*hides in shame*

Woman on a Raft said...

Do they mean 'joke shop hand for theatrical purposes' or 'medical prosthetic hand'?

If it's the former then no mystery but if it's the latter, then it is still an object which I'd expect to find either in a clinic or attached to a person.

Just because the hand is inanimate, it doesn't mean the rest of the owner is.....or does it?

JuliaM said...

"*hides in shame*"

:D

"...but if it's the latter, then it is still an object which I'd expect to find either in a clinic or attached to a person. "

If 'CSI: Insert City Here' has taught me anything, it's that the higher end of the market for these things often have serial numbers and owners can be traced.

Mind you, if we're talking NHS...

banned said...

As middling teenagers my crowd possessed a 'prosthetic hand' which we were in the habit of slipping into unsuspecting strangers pockets; hilarious.