POLICE in New York broke a car window to rescue a woman who turned out to be an extremely realistic mannequin.

    The unusual incident happened Friday morning in the city of Hudson in upstate New York.

    The Times Union of Albany reports that a caller told police there was an elderly woman “frozen to death” in a parked car, covered in frost and snow.

    Officers rushed to the scene and found what appeared to be a woman, trapped inside, sitting in a car’s front passenger seat wearing an oxygen mask and her seat belt.

    A sergeant from the Hudson P.D. busted a rear window, opened the door and discovered that the woman was in fact a realistic-looking mannequin.

    She was wearing real clothing, glasses, shoes, teeth. She even had skin blemishes. Her hair looked real, too.

    Eventually, the car’s owner returned and explained how he uses the dummy for his job selling medical training aids.

    The police chief says the owner was “incredulous” that his officers broke the window to rescue the mannequin.

    “He apparently was quite vocal and vulgar to my sergeant,” police chief L Edward Moore said.

    Ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek, chief Moore told mannequin owners to be more careful.

    (SD-Agencies)