Firefighters called after a ‘corpse’ was spotted floating in water ended up rescuing an inflatable sex doll.

Concerned passers-by had called police when they saw a ‘suspicious’ object under a bridge that they believed might have been a corpse.

Police were unable to identify what the mysterious floating object was in the city of Steyr in the northern Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Police called firefighters to a mysterious floating object in a river (Picture: CEN)

They then called firefighters to take a closer look.


Eight firefighters were then deployed to the site with a rescue vehicle and a barge to get up close to the suspected corpse and to recover the body.



But when they arrived, all they were able to do was give the all-clear to emergency service colleagues because it turned out that the body was that of a partially inflated naked blow-up doll.

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The object was removed from the water to prevent further false alarm calls although it was photographed for posterity.

It is not the first time a sex doll has been rescued after being mistaken for a real woman.

In July 2016, police were called to a flat in Amsterdam after neighbours became concerned that a lingerie-clad woman had been seen standing for a long time in a window.

When she didn’t answer the doorbell, police stormed the building expecting to find a dead body.

A firefighter with the blow-up doll fished out of the river in Austria (Picture: CEN)

Luckily, the woman in question was made of plastic and filled with air.

In January that year, officers in Cornwall were called to reports of a body floating in the sea off Newquay.

A fisherman had spotted the lady in the water and rang 999 and sent out distress flares.

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Luckily when RNLI volunteers arrived at the scene near Huer’s Hut they found a deflated sex toy rather than a body.

Newquay Coastguard Association chairman, Dave Bulley, said the doll was ‘put in the bin’

The Cornish town had hit the headlines just before the incident for banning sex dolls and mankinis, often used on stag nights.

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