# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/41 "2018-12-31T23:33:14Z")
How about hiking in Israel and finding a head sticking out of the ground? Or rather, a 1,700 year old funerary bust? > **[Two rare 1,700-year-old funerary busts unearthed in Beit She’an cemetery](https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-rare-1700-year-old-funerary-busts-unearthed-in-beit-shean-cemetery/)** > > After a rain, a local hiker discerned an unusual object popping out of the ancient graveyard: the only two such limestone statues -- unique to the region -- ever found in situ ---
**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, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/42 "2018-12-31T23:38:25Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > A buddy and I left a mannequin outside once. Hung it from a pedestrian walkway over a freeway the night before Halloween. Went back the next morning and it was gone. Remember this, from a few years ago? Yeah, that went a little too far. > **[‘This is Halloween decoration, not dead body,’ police warn public](https://www.ajc.com/news/national/this-halloween-decoration-not-dead-body-police-warn-public/MUk5nIVFPaUpFCrveXRPoO/)** > > Sheriff’s deputies in Tennessee on Wednesday posted a friendly warning that, as Halloween approaches, not everything in their community is as it seems. ---
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/43 "2018-12-31T23:50:48Z")
This police chaplain said that it’s not unusual to find a human skull many miles away from the rest of the body; she lived in an area that had bears, and as she put it, not only do they easily roll downhill, animals view them as a toy with a treat inside. > **[Here If You Need Me: Braestrup, Kate: 9780274994625: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Here-If-You-Need-Me/dp/0316066311)** > > Here If You Need Me \[Braestrup, Kate\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Here If You Need Me ---
**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:** [January 1, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/44 "2019-01-01T01:52:50Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hah! That’s my kinda dream finds. You’re friend is lucky. The funny thing was, the renter was Italian. I mean real Italian, with an accent. Maybe he always wanted to be Wyatt a-Earp. Don Novello, Saturday Night Live’s Father Guido Sarducci, was from Lorain (where the friend lives and where I grew up). We often lapsed into Sarducci-talk. “So I’m at the Pearly Gates and I’m twenty five a-cents a-short”. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/45 "2019-01-01T14:11:05Z")
Saw a full sized female sex doll floating down a canal in Germany once. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/46 "2019-01-02T21:50:20Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > 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 The litter box in the coyote image seems…unnecessary. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/47 "2019-01-03T03:30:02Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > The litter box in the coyote image seems…unnecessary. Have you ever tried to potty train a stuffed coyote? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/48 "2019-01-03T03:45:40Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > 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. I couldn’t resist thinking of this, which appeared in my local paper a few days ago. > **[Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for December 20, 2018 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2018/12/20)** > > December 20, 2018 I still remain a cat lover, even if they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/49 "2019-01-03T14:08:45Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Have you ever tried to potty train a stuffed coyote? > > Dennis Upon reflection, I suppose it would depend on what the animal is stuffed with. That would, however, bring up the issue of litter box placement. That one seems to be at the wrong end, unless of course it is supposed to be a “snack time” tableau. Oh, and as for the OP: I’ve never found a mannequin while walking through the wood, nor even a womannequin sometimes I wish I would. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/50 "2019-01-03T19:21:02Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > …My dog freaks out when he sees she has a head on a pole on our shared kitchen… One of the guys in the modeling club paints life-size busts of horror figures. He says the dog is pretty much okay with each bust project until he paints the eyes, and then she freaks out. That’s become sort of a running joke; he’ll bring a finished bust to a club meeting, only to be greeted with a chorus of questions about whether the dog freaked out or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/51 "2019-01-03T21:42:15Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 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 | Animals | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/marius-giraffe-killed-copenhagen-zoo-protests) > > Maybe that’s what they did with animals that were too big to bury? Copenhagen- Danish, not Dutch. Denmark’s about the only place in Europe that’d be legal. There are strict rules on disposing of zoo animal corpses in the UK and most of the rest of Europe, which generally means incineration due to the (actually minuscule) possibility of exotic parasites. That place pisses other European zoos right off, incidentally. Not so much about the public dissection, but deliberately breeding exotic animals when they know the babies are inbred or otherwise no use for conservation programmes, which they have done repeatedly and everyone else goes out of their way to avoid (many zoo animals even have contraceptive implants now). They then kill them once they’re not cute and drawing in the crowds. People breeding kittens with no plan or homes for them is shitty enough behaviour, but IMO it’s far worse for a zoo doing that, they should be a model of good animal care. Anyway. Back on topic, I’ve seen the police investigating a mannequin once. Sitting in a cafe in some small town in Australia, opposite a park. Bunch of people clustered looking all excited in the park, I assumed it was people getting ready for a game or something, then saw a police car pull up and they all ran over. A policewoman got out and got led off to some bushes by a gaggle of the folk, all excitedly pointing. Two minutes later she reappears holding a mannequin by one leg. Everyone stands round for a bit, looking a bit sheepish, the policewoman gets back in the car and drives off, leaving someone awkwardly holding the mannequin, at which point I had to leave to get a bus. Shame I was too far away to hear anything, really. ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/52 "2019-01-04T16:47:41Z")
Years ago my kids and I were headed home from town on our then gravel county road. Just mindlessly plodding along, paying attention to pot holes. For some reason my eye was drawn off the road and I registered a head sitting on a stump about 150’ into the woods. It was so unexpected, it took me a while to stop and slowly back up to where I could see it again through the trees. Sure enough, there is a woman’s severed head propped up on a stump. I made the kids stay in the truck while I investigated further. Even at five feet away I still thought it was real. Relief flooded through me to find it a realistic fake and I freaked out the kids by hauling it back to the road by her hair. Not much more than a mile further down the road towards home, I hit the meadows this area is named for. Again, I saw another head, but maybe 200 yards out in a meadow, sitting on an old tree stump. Kids retrieved that one now that I knew what they were. Still had never seen anything like this. Took a bit of google sleuthing to discover they were actually practice heads for budding hair dressers and makeup artists. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901/53 "2019-01-04T17:22:12Z")
When I found a dead body in a suburban river, it was shortly after Halloween, and I thought someone had dumped a scarecrow or something. It wasn’t that I was always finding scarecrows/mannequins around, but my mind was casting about to figure out what I was seeing, and I guess “scarecrow” struck me as much more likely than “dead body.” I was tossing rocks at it to see what it sounded like - the guy was wearing a blue workshirt and all I could see was his back. Thought it might be one of those blue plastic flotation tanks for supporting docks. When one rock landed near one end, the head bobbed up. Even when I got home and called the cops, I still couldn’t believe it was a body. Having said that, we DID run across a scarecrow up on my FIL’s property in Michigan a few years back. Not terribly realistic - had Darth Maul mask for a head. But I guess I’ve found the same number of scarecrows as I have dead bodies! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-found-a-mannequin-while-outdoors/826901.md?page=2)