Cops red-faced after man 'kidnapped and bundled into car boot' turned out to be a dummy

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body’ stuffed into the boot of a car turned out to be a mannequin.A mistaken, but highly concerned, citizen called police to report they had seen a man being kidnapped and stuffed into a vehicle.Police then issued an urgent notice to raise awareness and gather information.READ MORE: Drunken man threatened to 'take out' police officers with 'bomb in rucksack'The ‘incident’ took place on the A48 in Blakeney, Gloucestershire, with police carrying out “urgent enquiries”.

But as the appeal went out, others who had also seen the ‘kidnapping’ came forward to say they thought it was actually a mannequin, the Mail reports.

Gloucestershire Police said: “Police also received a call from a company which designs and creates realistic training mannequin, and that it was a water rescue mannequin which was being loaded into a car yesterday morning.“Officers would like to thank the caller who reported the incident which was a call made with good intent, and for those who came forward with information following the appeal.”After the case had been put to bed, Gloucestershire Police took to Twitter to update the public on their unusual day’s work.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.The force said: “We issued an urgent appeal this week after a call that a man was seen being put into the boot of a car on the A48 in Blakeney.“Thankfully we soon found out that the 'man' was in fact a realistic looking water rescue manikin by Extreme Simulations.

Here he is in training that day.”According to the original appeal the caller, “thought they saw a man and a woman putting a man in a t-shirt into the boot of a dark coloured car." READ NEXT: .