From the Daily Mail:

When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.

Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.

But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the “gunman” turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.

The figure was owned by computer shop owner David Williams, who had taken it home to sale on eBay. He had originally called police in connection to nuisance phone calls, and that’s when the police spotted the figure’s silhouette through the front window and believed there was an armed gunman inside.

A spokesman for the Greater Manchester Police stated that it was a “mannequin holding a toy weapon” that tricked the officers, wasting time, money, and effort.

Williams is currently on bail for a suspected firearms offense, and he won’t be able to sell the figure now that its impounded as evidence.

[Daily Mail] via [Game Politics]

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