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Police broke into a London art gallery (phòng tranh, nghệ thuật) owned by Banksy's former agent because they thought a hyper-realistic sculpture (bức tượng siêu thực) was an actual person who had expired. The sculpture by artist Mark Jenkins depicts a woman slumped over a table. It was visible through the window of the storefront gallery. The sight—and a locked front door—alarmed a passer-by, who called the police to intervene (can thiệp).

The case of mistaken identity unfolded on Nov. 25 with a 5:32 pm call to the London Metropolitan Police. The caller reported that a person seemed to be unconscious (bất tỉnh) inside Laz Emporium, a gallery in Soho. The lights were on, but the gallery's doors were locked. About 20 minutes later, "officers forced entry to the address, where they uncovered that the person was in fact a mannequin," a police spokesperson told Artnet News. "The Met has a duty of care to respond when there is a welfare concern."

It turns out an employee of the gallery had just locked up for the day and went upstairs to make a cup of tea, the owner Steve Lazarides told Artnet News. "She came down to find the door off its hinges and two confused police officers!" Hannah Blakemore, the employee, said she was "shocked" to find police officers in the gallery. She said the officers told her "somebody reported that the woman here has not been moving for the last two hours" and that the officers assumed the figure had "a heart attack (trụy tim) or she's overdosed (uống thuốc quá liều)."

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