Lifelike doll in hot car prompts police to smash window

EENE, N.H. (AP) — A lifelike baby doll prompted police in New Hampshire to smash a car window in a rescue attempt that turned out to be a false alarm.

WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2bicei0) police in the town of Keene say someone called them last month to report an infant left in a car at a shopping plaza on a hot day. Lt. Jason Short shattered the window with his baton. He tells the station he thought he was looking at a lifeless child, but noticed something was off when he began to breathe into the baby's mouth.

The station reports the lifelike doll belongs to a Vermont woman who collects them as a way to cope with her son's death. She says police told her they would pay for the broken window.