The emergency services in Blackpool get dozens of calls each year about bodies being seen in the sea or by the side of the road. In almost every case they turn out to be novelty inflatable dolls which, presumably as they lack anatomical correctness must provide only a brief period of entertainment before being dumped by their owners.
In 1998 there was a brief but lively exchange on the letters page of the local newspaper where a visitor complained about the appearance of 'ethnically coloured' dolls appearing on the Promenade. Disgusted that his ten year old daughter was confronted with the horrifying spectacle of a white and black doll tied together in a mimicry of interracial copulation, his diatribe against Blackpool, society and the world at large finished with the immortal lines "It's bad enough having politically correct nonsense indoctrinated into our children at school, but we don't come to Blackpool to have sleaze and moral depravity shoved down our throats'.
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