Japan | Rescuers saved an inflatable doll from the sea by mistaking it for a person | Twitter

A inflatable doll was rescued from the ocean after being mistaken for a woman drowning in Japan.

The incident took place in the city of Hachinobe, in the northeast of the country. A wrist The inflatable was floating in the water and a citizen called rescuers, mistaking it for a person.

“While I was recording a fishing video, I thought that a corpse had washed ashore, floating in the water, but it was a inflatable doll”, wrote Natsuki Tanaka, youtuber who was in the place.

After the call, police, firefighters and an ambulance arrived to “rescue the body.” The follow-up to the case was complete, with dozens of curious waiting for the success of the mission.

In the end, the rescuers managed to remove the body, although already with the surprise of seeing that it was not a woman in distress.

A new case

Unfortunately for rescuers, it is not the first time that a similar event has happened. In the US, in 2018, a inflatable doll was mistaken for a corpse in an Ohio park.

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