A UK citizen made a gruesome discovery in a London playground on Tuesday, a severed ear \u2013 or at least that\u2019s what they thought, until further investigation by local police.<\/p>\n
The ear was found in a children\u2019s playground in the London borough of Enfield. The concerned passerby no doubt feared the worst for owner of the muddied lug, which looked to have been slashed from the side of a person\u2019s head.<\/p>\n
Believing that a serious crime had been committed, the person appears to have placed a 999 call to the Metropolitan Police Service. However, on closer inspection by police officers it was determined that the lifelike ear was actually a \u201cchild\u2019s toy\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n Quite why a child would be caught playing with a dummy ear is anyone\u2019s guess. Hopefully it wasn\u2019t bought by a new parent eager to see their youngster recreate boxer Mike Tyson\u2019s infamous Evander Holyfield bite.<\/p>\n Bizarrely, this is not the first case of fake human body parts resulting in wasted police time.<\/p>\n A similar instance occurred at Discovery Bay in Hong Kong last year. This time a plastic foot floating in the ocean was the culprit and led to Lantau police divers sweeping the area for human remains.<\/p>\n In 2013, a make-up artist from Nottingham also got into hot water with authorities after he tried to prank his niece with a false severed hand. Patrick Plummer\u2019s rubber prop was placed on a doorstep as a joke.<\/p>\n However, the horror hand was mistaken for a real one and police ended up cordoning off a street because of it before the misunderstanding was finally straightened out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A UK citizen made a gruesome discovery in a London playground on Tuesday, a severed ear \u2013 or at least that\u2019s what they thought, until further investigation by local police. The ear was found in a children\u2019s playground in the London borough of Enfield. The concerned passerby no doubt feared the worst for owner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-221094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}