POLICE investigated a report that a severed human arm had been spotted at the side of the road- but it turned out to be a Halloween prop.
A driver called to report seeing a severed arm by the Ketch Roundabout on the A4440 road in Worcester, only for it to turn out to be a harmless Halloween prank.
The call was at around 11.50am on Friday and West Mercia Police said that it had the potential to cause a crash.
PC Allan Figueiredo of Gorse Hill and Rainbow Hill safer neighbourhood team said: "Police received a call from a concerned motorist who had been driving along the Broomhall Road when they noticed what looked like a severed arm on the side of the road.
"The motorist drove past the location to check again.
"Officers attended the location and found that it was not a human severed arm but a Halloween prop.
"We cannot establish if the item had been left there deliberately or not however there was potential for a collision to occur as drivers slow down to investigate what the item actually was.
"The attending officers have seized the prop."
West Mercia Police tweeted: "Received 999 call from a motorist reporting a human arm on the side of the road. Officers investigated, it’s just a ‘armless Halloween prop."
Received 999 call from a motorist reporting a human arm on the side of the road. Officers investigated, it’s just a ‘armless Halloween prop pic.twitter.com/2hrp7bhlrB
— West Mercia OCC (@WestMerciaOCC) October 20, 2017
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