A worried passerby panicked when they spotted the woman sitting on a bench in the freezing cold.
The anonymous person saw the woman on a bench in Brampton Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Seeing her from a distance, it appeared that the woman was sitting motionless and with her head bowed, as heavy snow fell on and around her.
Understandably concerned, the Good Samaritan quickly placed a call to 999, England’s emergency telephone number.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) crew responded to the call on December 11, 2017, only to find the woman couldn’t be helped — because she wasn’t a woman at all. She was a park statue.
Specifically, it was “The Lady in the Park,” erected to commemorate “all the women in Newcastle-under-Lyme who lost husbands, sons and friends in the First World War and subsequent conflicts.”
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