The recent news of the police mistaking a stuffed tiger for a real one reminded me of a similar happening at work. I am jumping forward quite a few years and am now working as a midwife.
Picture this, a winters evening, poor light and a maternity wing car park. A worried dad makes his way up to the labour ward and says he has seen the skeleton of a baby in the car park. Of course we take this seriously and the labour ward sister goes out to investigate, calls security who immediately contacts the police.
They arrive and tape off the area as a crime scene and leave with one chap standing close to the body while equipment is sourced.
Another midwife arrives at work, larger than life with a down to earth no nonsense attitude. She breaks through the police cordon, cracks out laughing and picks up (to the cries of horror of a lot of folk) the plastic skeleton that once hung from a car mirror!!
When the labour ward sister retired, we presented her with a cardboard coffin (shoe box) complete with a plastic skeleton lying inside.
the police declined to comment.
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