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LONDON -- In a job that's probably filled with unpleasant surprises,Married Women: Men Who Taste Better Than Their Husbands it must be a nice relief when something that appears to be grim actually turns out to be entirely innocent.

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It's happened before with the British police. There was the "person who sounded in distress" and turned out to be a goat and the "injured otter" that was nothing more than a fake fur collar.

And when the Lewisham Central Safer Neighbourhoods Team was out patrolling on Wednesday, it happened again.

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"There was an alleyway with a trolley full of goods at the entrance and there was something that looked like a person slumped over so we went to investigate," a spokesperson told the London Evening Standard.

Turns out it wasn't a person they found.

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The spokesperson went on to confirm the finding was a teddy bear with a bottle of coke, dressed in a cardigan.

"He clearly was a little worse for wear from the night before," they said. "Though at least it wasn't anything too serious."

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