Police in upstate New York broke into a parked car to rescue what looked like an unresponsive elderly woman, who passersby feared had frozen to death .

But after smashing the window of the Subaru in Hudson around 8:30 a.m. on Friday, officers were relieved to find the woman was actually just an extremely realistic life-sized mannequin, reports the Albany Times Union.

The vehicles owner later returned and revealed he is a sales manager for a medical training aid manufacturer , and that the oxygen mask-wearing mannequin hed strapped into the passenger seat is a CPR training device.