Someone reported a body in Finlay Park. It was a fake skeleton, police say

Talk about your funny bone.

Someone reported finding a body in Columbia’s Finlay Park that ended up being a fake skeleton.

It happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at the park on the 900 block of Taylor Street, according to a Columbia Police Department incident report. An officer conducting a property check was approached by a man who said there was something suspicious that the officer needed to investigate.

“I asked him what was suspicious and he advised it looked like a body was sitting in the back waterfall (area) covered on blood,” the officer wrote in the report. The officer found a plastic skeleton covered in spray foam and clothes and zip-tied together to make it sit up.

The skeleton was covered in dirt and fake blood, police said. It was taken to the department’s property room for destruction.