Lifelike doll in hot vehicle prompts police to smash window
Lt. Jason Short says, he thought he was looking at a lifeless child and shattered the window with his baton. And I’m like, “This is a doll”‘. Hopefully, she warns people of this fact before they enter her home.
He told WMUR-TV: ‘I went to put my finger in its mouth and it was all resistance. Many start out as regular, $30-a-pop toys, although the end product can fetch thousands of dollars. “It looked like a baby”.
They’re made to look life-like by substituting plastic eyes for glass eyes and either hand-implanted mohair or human hair.
The dolls are created to be indistinguishable from real infants, and can cost thousands of dollars. She now collects realistic dolls, called “reborn” dolls, as a means to cope with her loss. But columnist and psychiatrist Gail Saltz wrote at Today in 2008 that dolls may act as transitional objects, items that help overcome a sense of abandonment. But please, keep your healing demon dolls far, far away from me.
“I’ve been laughed at and embarrassed by all the fuss”, Seiffert said in a statement to local station WMUR.
“I got there as soon as I could”, he said. “It is the concretized fantasy of getting unconditional love”. Local police paid for the damage to the window and the doll’s owner has since put a sticker on her auto to alert police that any babies they see in her vehicle aren’t real.
So far this year, 27 children have died from heatstroke after being left in cars, according to a database from the department of meteorology and climate science at the San Jose State University. Short told WMUR. “I would always assume that it’s a child”.
Ms Seiffert agreed to put a custom sticker on her auto window to prevent any future misunderstandings.