Oakland police respond to baby trapped in car, find doll instead

Monday, August 31, 2015
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- When police in Oakland received a report of a baby trapped in a car at 22nd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, emergency personnel responded quickly by smashing the window.

After they got inside, however, authorities realized it was actually a lifelike doll in the car seat.
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It's not clear at this time why the lifelike baby was in the car seat and police have not said if they have talked with the owner of the car.

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