Police investigation concludes that headless corpse was actually a blow-up sex doll

Over in Germany, a street cleaner stumbled across what he thought was something terrible earlier this week.

According to a police report, the 31-year-old man spotted a lifeless figure rolled up in a carpet - with one foot poking out - in the town of Lübeck, on the Baltic coast.

Fearing the worst, the man called the police who immediately headed down to the "crime scene".

But, fortunately, not everything was as it seemed...

As the police report explained:

After more exact criminal observation, it was ascertained that we were dealing with a so-called sex toy with no head...

HT The Local

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