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Lane closures on ALL OUT: AJ RAVALthe road sure are annoying, but imagine your road-rage if you found out the traffic jam you'd been stuck in had been caused by... a Halloween toy.

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The Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit (UK) were called out to the A19 and shut down a lane after a report from a concerned citizen about a "suspicious looking item". They supplied a photo of said item on their official Facebook page, you can judge for yourself why a passing motorist might have considered it "suspicious".

The Cleveland and Durham police found that the hand was not an actual morsel of human anatomy but "a realistic looking 'severed hand'".

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Cue the PUNdits.

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If you're hungry for more punning have a scroll through the hundreds that have piled up in the photo's comment section.

Props to the police for having a sense of humour about it all and gifting us with some laughter to brighten our sad, road-rage filled lives.

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