ok, my take on this incident is probably going to be the unpopular one here.
first, the guy calls the cops and complains about strange phone calls. so, they check by his house to see everything's cool. he doesn't come to the door when they knock so they're probably thinking he's either in the bathroom or the wacko who he was complaning about decided to pay him a visit. so, they glance in the window just to make sure before they leave and see the black silhouetted figure aiming a gun downward, as if there was someone laying on the floor. i don't blame them for overreacting. the guy might as well have orchestrated that sequence of events as a prank.
"Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay."
if i were caught with a full size statue of lara croft in my home i'd probably come up with some similar excuse.
first, the guy calls the cops and complains about strange phone calls. so, they check by his house to see everything's cool. he doesn't come to the door when they knock so they're probably thinking he's either in the bathroom or the wacko who he was complaning about decided to pay him a visit. so, they glance in the window just to make sure before they leave and see the black silhouetted figure aiming a gun downward, as if there was someone laying on the floor. i don't blame them for overreacting. the guy might as well have orchestrated that sequence of events as a prank.
"Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay."
if i were caught with a full size statue of lara croft in my home i'd probably come up with some similar excuse.