# has anyone here ever found a mannequin while outdoors? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901 "2018-12-30T03:44:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/21 "2018-12-30T23:02:14Z")
My brothers were hiking in the woods near the Kansas City zoo when they came across the decapitated corpse of a giraffe. I realize that this has little to do with the O.P.'s question, but it’s unlikely I’ll ever get another chance to post the story. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/22 "2018-12-30T23:51:59Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > My brothers were hiking in the woods near the Kansas City zoo when they came across the decapitated corpse of a giraffe. > > I realize that this has little to do with the O.P.'s question, but it’s unlikely I’ll ever get another chance to post the story. Oh. OH??!! I need to hear more. Is that all of the story? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/23 "2018-12-31T00:00:24Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I have a true-crime show on in the background, and on those shows, people are always out hunting, fishing, hiking, etc. and they think they see a mannequin but realize when they get closer that it isn’t. I wonder how much of that is a function of people not expecting to (and not being mentally prepared to) find an actual dead human body, and so, in the first moment of discovery, their mind rationalizes that it **can’t possibly** actually be a dead person, and thus, it must be a mannequin. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/24 "2018-12-31T00:05:12Z")
I saw a styrofoam head by the roadside and a mannequin torso on a trailhead. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/25 "2018-12-31T00:09:17Z")
I’ve seen those Styrofoam heads a few times. I figure they are lightweight and blow around easily from trash receptacles and truck beds. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/26 "2018-12-31T00:12:12Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > My brothers were hiking in the woods near the Kansas City zoo when they came across the decapitated corpse of a giraffe. > > I realize that this has little to do with the O.P.'s question, but it’s unlikely I’ll ever get another chance to post the story. This reminded me of the story of Marius, from a few years ago. In short, to keep his zoo colony genetically diverse, he had to be sacrificed, and after public dissection (which this Dutch zoo was well know for doing), he was fed to the lions. > **[Marius the giraffe killed at Copenhagen zoo despite worldwide protests](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/marius-giraffe-killed-copenhagen-zoo-protests)** > > Young giraffe unsuitable for breeding was shot, dissected in public and then fed to lions despite offers of a new home Maybe that’s what they did with animals that were too big to bury? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/27 "2018-12-31T00:13:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I wonder how much of that is a function of people not expecting to (and not being mentally prepared to) find an actual dead human body, and so, in the first moment of discovery, their mind rationalizes that it **can’t possibly** actually be a dead person, and thus, it must be a mannequin. True. But I was curious if anyone had actually found a mannequin, and it looks like a lot of you have. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/28 "2018-12-31T00:16:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ve found some very interesting things on the roadside. Mr.Wrekker says I gonna open a box and really find something gruesome. My reason for stopping at boxes is I think of poor little kittens or puppies baking to death or getting out and being roadkill. I’ve found my share of those. The grossest thing I’ve found was a box of rotten meat. > I just recently found a really nice hunting bow. It was banged up a bit. Fell off someone’s truck, most likely, leaving the deer camp. One of my favorite Facebook pages is titled “The Chronicles of Douglas Fur.” Mr. Fur is from a litter of kittens who, along with their mother, were found under these circumstances by the side of a road. The box contained a mother and two kittens, which were picked up by a man who promptly took them to the local shelter. The shelter people said, “She has four lactating breasts. Let’s go back and see if there are more kittens.” Turns out she was in the process of moving those kittens, out a hole she had chewed in the box, and two more were found in a nearby hollow tree stump. All of them were given “tree” names, and Douglas’ Fur-ever family periodically post updates. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/29 "2018-12-31T00:23:28Z")
My sister does hair, and teaches others, and she has a couple of mannequin heads that she uses to show her classes what a particular technique ends up looking like. My dog freaks out when he sees she has a head on a pole on our shared kitchen. Sorry, not really responsive, but I don’t have any other mannequin stories, so no, I’ve never found one in the wild. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/30 "2018-12-31T04:54:06Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > My sister does hair, and teaches others, and she has a couple of mannequin heads that she uses to show her classes what a particular technique ends up looking like. > My dog freaks out when he sees she has a head on a pole on our shared kitchen. > > Sorry, not really responsive, but I don’t have any other mannequin stories, so no, I’ve never found one in the wild. No, that fits with the theme of this thread. Probably best not to do this with the dog around. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/31 "2018-12-31T05:34:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > No, that fits with the theme of this thread. Probably best not to do this with the dog around. Indeed. I was surprised he had such an immediate reaction to seeing a “head” on a stick. He startled back and refused to approach the scary head. My other dog didn’t even notice it. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/32 "2018-12-31T13:50:55Z")
Around fifty years ago, a double murder shocked my small hometown. It was especially gruesome because the victims had been decapitated. When a suspect was arrested, he claimed to have discarded the heads at a different location. A search party was dispatched, which never found the heads. But the local paper claimed that everyone freaked out a little when they encountered a mannequin head near the wooded location. Not a mannequin, but: a few years later, a friend and I were hiking in the woods when we saw from a distance a motionless body of a man. We ran all the way into town to the police station, where two officers promptly ushered us into a squad car to lead them to it. When we got there, we saw it was a false alarm: the ‘body’ was the town drunk, surrounded by several empty bottles of booze, with a half-finished one between his legs. One of the cops called him by name and splashed a capful of whiskey on his face, causing him to stir. “He’s all right”, the other one declared. “He’s better up here than causing trouble in town”. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/33 "2018-12-31T14:43:48Z")
While walking through the park one, I spotted a very anatomically correct female sex doll. I immediately called a cop I knew and told him, who said they would take care of it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/34 "2018-12-31T15:46:18Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > While walking through the park one, I spotted a very anatomically correct female sex doll. I immediately called a cop I knew and told him, who said they would take care of it. Did he mean he’d take care of it, or he’d “take care of it”?😕 ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/35 "2018-12-31T16:06:32Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I figure they are lightweight and blow around easily from trash receptacles and truck beds. “That’s a shame, someone threw away a perfectly good white boy…” Dennis ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/36 "2018-12-31T16:35:04Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Indeed. I was surprised he had such an immediate reaction to seeing a “head” on a stick. He startled back and refused to approach the scary head. My other dog didn’t even notice it. At a time when I had two dogs and two cats, I bought a life-size painted wooden cat with large, expressive eyes and placed it on the floor in my house. Both dogs barked madly at it, and one cat hissed. The other cat was indifferent. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/37 "2018-12-31T17:48:24Z")
In the spirit of the season, I had a a dancing singing snowman. It was really obnoxious but the kids loved it. My old dog, at the time, was slightly interested in it when it was on. I was sitting reading one time and it started dancing. I looked up and the dog was sitting watching it. “Hmmm? sez, I” she must of bumped it. Little bit later, it happens again. She’s sitting watching it. So I paid attention for awhile. She had figured out the button on the pedestal the thing was on. Every time she passed by it she tapped the button with her nose and sat and watched. Never should’ve taught that dog to target with her nose. It led to a life of crime. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/38 "2018-12-31T22:12:42Z")
A friend had a renter who went into a nursing home and told him he could have his stuff. This sits at the dining room table now: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/kgNfxTU.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/kgNfxTU) Plus a stuffed coyote, a Ruger 10-22 and a couple of saddles: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/Sc3C42n.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/sop74) Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/39 "2018-12-31T22:15:55Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > A friend had a renter who went into a nursing home and told him he could have his stuff. This sits at the dining room table now: > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/kgNfxTU) > > Plus a stuffed coyote, a Ruger 10-22 and a couple of saddles: > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/a/sop74) > > Dennis Hah! That’s my kinda dream finds. You’re friend is lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/40 "2018-12-31T23:09:50Z")
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