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Related: About this forumPolice broke into art gallery to help a "woman in distress"
Police broke down the door of a London Art gallery owned by Banksys former agent to try and save a woman in distress - who turned out to be a realistic artwork.
In a case of art imitating life, cops forced entry to the Laz Emporium gallery only to find the reported health emergency was in fact a dummy called Kristina.
London Metropolitan Police said they had received a call at 5.32 p.m on Novemver 25 about a person who appeared to be unconscious inside the swish London gallery on Sohos Lexington Street.
The doors of the gallery, owned by top art guru and Banky pal Steve Lazarides, were locked at the time and officers were forced to break in.
But the medical emergency turned out to be a mannequin made of packing tape and foam filler worth £18,000
Red-faced cops said officers had arrived on the scene 20 minutes after the call. Officers forced entry to the address, where they uncovered that the person was in fact a mannequin, a police spokesperson told Artnet News.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/police-broke-gallery-banksys-former-012246823.html
The Met has a duty of care to respond when there is a welfare concern, they added.
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Police broke into art gallery to help a "woman in distress" (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Dec 2022
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Blue Owl
(50,485 posts)1. Turned out she was framed
rubbersole
(6,721 posts)2. Funny 😁!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,031 posts)3. lol
berniesandersmittens
(11,345 posts)4. .