direct to your inboxA large-scale police search was launched after a woman thought she spotted human remains on her afternoon dog walk.But what looked like a toe sticking out of the mud actually turned out to be a POTATO.The dog walker took a snap of the suspicious-looking vegetable after stumbling across it in a field in Winlaton in Gateshead on Tuesday afternoon (January 5).After returning home, she sent the photo to Northumbria Police, prompting the force to send officers and specialist dogs out to search the field."Eventually we tracked down the 'scene' only to discover the toe was in fact a potato with a mushroom growing next to it," the force said."Our search team did have a chuckle when they realised it was no more than a vegetable.
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