Police find a mannequin suspiciously wrapped like a dead body

[Yonnie3]

Police find a mannequin suspiciously wrapped like a dead body
By Brianna Hamblin |
Posted: Sun 3:30 PM, Aug 26, 2018 |
Updated: Sun 4:44 PM, Aug 26, 2018

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) Police responded to a call for a possible body at McIntire Road Recycling Center around 1 p.m. When police got to the alleged body and cut open the cloth it was wrapped in, it turned out to be a mannequin.

Sergeant Tony Newberry said this mannequin was not just trash being thrown out.

"The body was covered up. It did look staged," said Newberry. "There was things tied around the neck and around the feet, and it was made to make it difficult for us to actually I.D. anything just at face value."

Before discovering the mannequin, officials had to secure the scene expecting the worse. Forensics and detectives came out and any potential evidence was collected.

Newberry said they will be looking for whoever disposed of the mannequin. Whoever it was may possibly face charges.
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[nycbos]

1. Life imitates art?

[Demovictory9]

2. charges for what? it's illegal to wrap a mannequin in that manner? Why?

[Yonnie3]

3. Littering?

Only recyclables are allowed at the recycling center.

[grumpyduck]

4. Something like this happened to us a few years ago

A local live theater sent a couple of female manikins from the costume shop to the warehouse for storage, and whoever dropped them off just left them standing by the large loading door. Neither manikin had any clothes on.

A few days later, in an unrelated incident, one of the large riding mowers caught fire. It was parked right outside the warehouse and next to the loading door. So the wall started to char and smoke was going all over the place.

The fire department shows up, throws open the door, sees two "naked persons" standing by the door and turns their fire extinguishers on them. When the smoke and foam finally cleared, they realized they were manikins.

I can just imagine the talk at the firehouse later that day: "So, Joe, saved any cute manikins recently?"