The world's biggest producer of sex toys is having some trouble sorting out the knock-offs from the real deal:

Police in China rescued a sex doll from a river, mistakenly believing it to be a drowning woman. The doll was floating around 50 metres from the riverbank in the Shandong province when 18 officers arrived at the scene, according to Chinese website Sohu. It took police 40 minutes to 'save' the inflatable doll, who could not identify the item until they were much closer.

Then there's what happened in a village near Xi'an last month, when residents and a government-TV newscaster mistook a sex toy for an ancient mushroom: