Thursday, July 17, 2008

Frantic rescue effort saves doll, not baby

Vynette Cernik with one of her lifelike dolls
True to life ... Vynette Cernik with one of her dolls.

By Glenis Green

  • Cops mistake doll in car for unconscious baby
  • So they smash vehicle's windows to rescue bub
  • Officers say it was frightening for police and public

FRANTIC police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.

The embarrassing mistake, made in regional Gympie, is not an isolated incident and passionate creator of the "reborn" baby dolls Vynette Cernik knows just how easily they can be mistaken for the real thing.

Ms Cernik said last week's case of mistaken identity mirrored a similar incident in the US when the window of a new Hummer was broken by police trying to rescue a "baby" that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner's wife.

Selling for up to $1000, the painstakingly hand-painted dolls were so lifelike with eyelashes, fingernails, milk spots and wispy hair that they were constantly fooling people, Ms Cernik said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24019578-1248,00.html

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