Strange case of abandoned mannequins in Hsinchu solved by tracking barcodes
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/20
By: Renée Salmonsen, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Hsinchu Police Bureau announced Friday that the person
Proper waste disposal is no laughing matter. (By Central News Agency)
responsible for dumping over a dozen mannequin parts along Dong An-li Road in Hsinchu County is in police custody and will be punished for his crime.
Earlier this April a pile of mannequin parts was discovered along Dong An-li Road in the Kuanhsi Township of Hsinchu County. The pile included adult and child mannequin parts and gave passersby an eerie fright, especially at night, reported BCC News.
Police were able to hunt down the culprit by tracing the origin of the barcodes discovered on some of the mannequins, functioning like DNA for these plastic people, explained the Head of the Dong An Police Station, Liu Si-wei (劉思偉). [FULL STORY]