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Fake arm causes chaos

A PLASTIC arm brought “chaos” to the M62 after drivers mistakenly reported it, thinking it was a human limb.

Officers closed the westbound side and the slip road by junction 6 at Tarbock Island, Merseyside, while they hunted for the “severed arm”.

They opened the road a few hours later, at 1630 BST, after receiving a call from two council workers who had spotted the forearm and removed it.

Police said it had caused “traffic chaos and a huge expense”.

The two council workers then took the arm to a local police station.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .