Dummy Massacre (short story)
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Dummy Massacre was the second short story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website on 27 March 2005 by the BBC webteam. The short story was notable for two reasons: firstly, although his identity would be kept a secret in this story and the next few, this was the first short story on the website to feature Mickey Smith; and secondly, the story was set in the aftermath of the Dummy Massacre as seen in Rose.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
A new webmaster is operating the conspiracy website Who is Doctor Who? and has posted a selection of accounts from the site's readers about the very recent Dummy Massacre, an attack by "killing dolls" on the population; at 07:08PM, when the London Eye became a "wheel of fire", CK saw the Eye from Westminster Bridge and TERI LOVER, who was on the wheel, thought they were going to die; at 07:09PM, when the dummies came to life, Alison was in Holland's in Bluewater when the dummies began to open fire, Max was at a coffee stall outside Bond Street station and hid behind the counter, and Saman78 was in Covent Garden and initially assumed the dummies were a mime act; and at 07:16PM, the attack stopped, NickP had to resist the urge to hurl when he smelt the dummies die.
The webmaster also leaves an area for the site's readers to submit more stories about the attack.
Entries[[edit] | [edit source]]
The collection of entries is arranged in order, oldest first
| # | Character | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandy and Jackson | Sandy and Jackson recalls the "horrific" experience beginning when they heard a noise in their son's bedroom. When they went in they found that their son's Wrestling figures had come alive, likened to something out of Small Soldiers. They tried to escape but suddenly felt burning n their eyes as if their contacts were made of acid. They blacked out after seeing all the Crazy Bones crawling up their legs. |
| 2 | Juan | Juan was chased by a dozen female dolls who he thought fancied him until they started shooting him. Juan hid in a public toilet and believes that the smell turned them off. |
| 3 | Mark Fraser-Betts | Mark was in Chelmsford High street having coffee with his his girl friend when she dropped her coffee. He thought she was mucking around before seeing the dummies coming towards them, upon which they just ran out of there. Mark thought the pair of them were going to die. |
| 4 | Devvo | Devvo comments that one of them dummies were actually quite nice looking. She came up to him and he said to her, "What's a nice girl like you doing in clothes like that?" They then went back to his place where he recalls that everything was going wonderfully until, suddenly, she flopped over on the floor and stopped moving, adding that he never has any luck with the ladies. |
| 5 | Julian | Julian was in a sports shop at the time, recalling the horrific sight of a dummy in a ninja costume throwing death stars at the customers. |
| 6 | Paul | Paul reports that they got his puppy. |
| 7 | Adam Toosard | Adam reports that his his dad, who is the cleaner at a famous waxworks in London, is missing, having not seen him since the weekend. Adam asks if this is related to the incident, noting that the police are saying nothing. |
| 8 | so not the man | so_not_the_man did not see a doll, but claims to have seen a load of plastic traffic cones start moving and screwing up the traffic. |
| 9 | Denis | Denis was drinking at the Captain Kidd by the Thames when a boat full of dummies went past. He nearly made a loud scream when he saw them wave at him, insisting the encounter really happened. |
| 10 | Mark Adams | Saying that Stephen Whithorn is right, Mark reports the terrifying sight of a dummy dressed as Charlie Chaplin coming out a shop right by the Hippodrome. |
| 11 | Robin | Robin was doing his paper round, deciding to take a shortcut through the town as it was quite late. Robin walked past a shop and, after noticing something moving, turn and saw a ghastly plastic dummy walking towards them. Robin made a Ki-ai then performed a roundhouse kick, the only thing they could do. The dummy kept moving after its head went flying off. Robin then realised they were being shot at before seeing that a nearby dead person had left his moped running on the ground. Robin jumped on then drove away, turning their head to see that the dummies were collapsing on the floor. Robin did not stop and carried on as fast as they could, about 30 mph, before getting home and collapsing out of sheer energy desperation, later seeing the whole story on the news later. |
| 12 | Billy Hopper | A policeman, Billy was patrolling when he saw the man in the photograph followed by a young lady run down by the Thames. Billy decided to tell them that they were not allowed there so he followed them into a big room. Billy reports seeing some molten lava stuff moving around and the man talking to it. The place then started to rumble and shake and plastic dummies came and grabbed the man, at which point Billy passed out. A couple of hours later Billy woke up and found that the lava and everyone else had gone. Recalling that his sergeant did not believe him when he told him, Billy wonders if he is mad or if what he saw was real. |
| 13 | sam | Sam was shopping for his new shoes when his mom screamed and then he fainted. |
| 14 | Andrew Davidson | Aged 13, Andrew poses the question of how the dummies get the metal guns in their hands if they were wax and plastic. He then recalls that his brother's Action Man tried to decapitate their poor dog, Wishbone, who has not eaten anything in two days. |
| 15 | Tony Green | Tony had the misfortune to be in The Early Learning Centres at the time. Fortunately animated Teletubbies, Fimbles and Disney characters do not run very fast, and Tony made good his escape. |
| 16 | SeanKoury | SeanKoury reports that the dummies have made it to Canada. |
| 17 | Ryan J. Woodward | Ryan says that the incident was the scariest day of his life. Had he not missed his tube connection that day he believes he surely would have died instead of just getting the bus past the scenes of chaos. Ryan takes the plastic monsters as a sign that the consumer society has gone too far. |
| 18 | Bob Dangler | A security guard who patrols the Derbyshire County Council Rubbish Dump in Glossop near Manchester, Bob notes that they have problems with scavengers since they get a lot of industrial waste from shops and department stores. Last Saturday night, Bob heard some suspicious sounds and went to investigate before finding a couple of shop window mannequins wandering about over the mountains of rubbish as if they were lost. Bob legged it so the dummies did not see him, saying that no one believes him. |
| 19 | PJ | PJ knew that Toy Story was a documentary. |
| 20 | Mark Young | Mark is a surgeon at the DWM Hospital where they brought in some of the casualties. One particular similarity that he noticed was the shape and composition of the bullets he found lodged in the victims. Firstly, all the bullets were made of a plastic compound, but the weirdest thing was that in many cases it seemed that the bullets had began to warp into very distinctive shapes. Some were humanoid, as if they had changed shape after entering the body. One particularly nasty example bore the face of the victim. |
| 21 | anonymous | The dummies invaded anonymous's garden, though luckily they were having a big fire burning all the compost and garden rubbish. They approached him but got too close to the fire, melting them, causing great damage to the garden and ruining the strawberry patch. |
| 22 | rouen atconson | rouen recalls reading in the papers that this rigmarole was put down to students having a bit of a lark. rouen reports returning home and finding that all their plastic kitchen appliances were waiting at the door, believing that some of the students involved had broke into their house and were making it look like the appliances were trying to get out. rouen complains that young people today just have no respect for other peoples' property. |
| 23 | Gerard | Gerard reports that his action man went crazy last week, eventually having to nuke him in the microwave. |
| 24 | Haguey | Haguey was in the local Working Men's when everybody's cigarette lighters exploded in a ball of flame all at once and the buttons on the bandit tried to swallow Hauey's mate Cookie's fingers. His mate Tingle needed a fag to calm down from the shock but nobody had a match. Haguey's other mate Loga was at home but the cable on his Playstation pad tried to strangle him; he cut himself free and now needs a pad. |
| 25 | Simon B | Simon B first saw the killer dolls at Tribal Gathering in 1997; there were four of them in the gang and they called themselves "Kraftwerk". |
| 26 | Dr. J. Smith | A spokesman from the Meteorological Office, Dr. J. Smith confirms that the incident is nothing more than a combination of mass hysteria, and hallucination brought on by the Earth passing through the electromagnetic tail of a large comet. Equally, the explosion at Henrik's department store, which some have claimed is connected with the so-called rampage, was caused by a gas leak. Smith thanks the readers and hopes they all continue to maintain such refreshing interest in extraordinary phenomena. |
| 27 | Buckie | Buckie was chased for half a mile by crazed Tupperware, adding that they will never take packed lunch to work again. |
| 28 | Mark | Mark says that the plastic chair in the living room ate his mom. |
| 29 | The Master | The Master asks who is running the website, pointing out that Clive is dead. |
| 30 | icytrue | icytrue, who works for NCAP, says that today was the day the crash test dummies rebelled. |
| 31 | Channing | Channing says that witnesses were the audience of a small street act in which actors pretended to be shop dummies that kill people and actors who pretended to be members of the audience getting killed. The Autons, rather shop dummies, definitely did not come alive and kill anyone. Channing insists that the entire event must be forgotten but tells readers to keep buying good ol' plastic. |
| 32 | Graham | Fortunately, Graham was attacked by the Emile Heskey waxwork. |
| 33 | Garb | Garb, for one, welcomes their new plastic overlords. |
| 34 | Natasha | Natasha was in Wollworths with her mate Sharon when the dummies suddenly came to life. Before they moved she told Sharon that she thought there was a burning smell, adding that the smell of burning plastic was everywhere when all the dummies started walking around and shooting people. Sharon was shot in the leg and Natasha's handbag was shot. Insisting that the encounter was true despite what others may think, Natasha says that it was the most sacred she had ever been in her entire life. |
| 35 | David Irwin | David saw the mannequins and thought at first they were some extras from a low budget sci fi series, concluding that he was wrong. |
| 36 | mark, portslade | Mark saw a lifesize figure of Elvis in the window of an arcade in his local high street. Mark at first thought it was a gimmick when the figure started twitching his leg before it smashed through the window and started shooting at the passers by. Mark confesses that he was all shock up by the incident. |
| 37 | Steve T | Steve T was part of a multi-media fashion/art troupe performing a living sculpture in a shop window display when suddenly all the real dummies came to life, shattered the glass, and started shooting people. Steve freaked and ran out through the broken window, still dressed as a dummy, before a gang of old ladies said "There's one, smash its arms, that's where its guns are!" Steve fell down and one of them drove her disabled buggy over him. He screamed "I am not an alien, I am a human being." but he does not think they believed him. |
| 38 | Brian | Brian quips that, suddenly, all the actors and sets in Neighbours seemed to come alive. |
| 39 | Elvis | Elvis thought it was some stage show and laughed until the cutey pie next to him was shot in the leg. Recalling the sight of blodo and everything, Elvis says that the dummies were mean. |
| 40 | Nelly | Nelly observes that the whole thing was total chaos with people running around and screaming, the mannequins firing bullets from their hands and explosions all around. Then suddenly the mannequins started breakdancing badly then collapsed and it was over. Nelly was shook up but not too shaken to take advantage of the broken shop windows. Nelly's wardrobe is now full of designer labels and she has a nice big plasma screen TV. |
| 41 | owen | owen was out to buy a present for his brother's birthday when there was a smash and explosion at his feet. When he woke up he saw that all the dummies were dead. |
| 42 | John Coe | John was in Southampton at the weekend, shopping as usual, when suddenly a window shattered near him and all hell broke loose. There was panic in the shopping centre and shop manicans were walking around. John does not believe they were aliens, reasoning that they were students mucking around, though it did cause panic. |
| 43 | Stephen Whithorn | Stephen was in Bristol when these started attacking every one outside the Bristol Hippodrome. Luckily, the police were on scene very quickly. Stephen believed the attackers were students mucking around until they fell to the floor, realising that they were dummies. |
| 43 | pedro montez | Pedro asks readers if they saw the killer dolls and live and to tell him their story. Pedro himself saw them, recalling that he had to run even faster than the train. |
| 44 | alasdair huggan ( 10 ) | Alasdair recalls that he was with his mum and dad shopping before they made him run very fast to the car park and dad drove home very quickly. alasdair thought something strange was going on but they would not tell him what happened, asking if the pictures are real. |
| 45 | Estelle | Estelle was shopping at M&S when it happened. Smelling some kind of a burning smell, Estelle guesses it was the plastic remoulding itself to move freely before the mannequins started to move. Estelle was dumbstruck and just stood there not daring to move before finally being pulled by one of the shop assistant's shouting "Run!" At that point, a death doll crashed its hand in to the window display and started to walk menacingly towards her, guessing that it smelt her living flesh. Estelle did not know what else to do but throw the jam scones in to its industrial beige face and run like a crazed chicken. Estelle recalls that it was chaos outside, people were confused and transport was all in a mess because of the destruction from the plastic death dolls. A very scared Estelle tried calling her mum but the phone was off and Estelle feared that she might be dead, but thankfully found later that she was not. Estelle stepped out on to the river bank outside the shopping mall, noticing the London Eye in iridescent blue and beaming out a strange blue disk like radiation. Estelle decided to hide in one of the roadmasters lying on the street and wait for it to calm down but fell asleep, exhausted. |
| 46 | Chantal | Recalling that it was scary and so freaky, Chantal was in The Gap shopping for a new pair of jeans when all the dummies came to life. Chantal thought it was some stupid publicity stunt until they started shooting everyone and she ran screaming out of the shop before only just realising that she had the jeans still on when she did, noting that some good came out of all this. |
| 47 | matthew | Matthew was with his dad when all the window shop dummies came to life. |
| 48 | Big Tone | Big Tone was in Bromley Allders with his wife checking out the closing sale. They had just walked into a section selling of the shop fittings when all of a sudden the mannequins came alive, with tons of them wandering about naked. Big Tone was gobsmacked but says readers should have seen the look on his wife's face when their weapons popped out. |
| 49 | Neal | Neal was in Burtons, having just come out of the changing room when two shop dummies started to move. Thinking "sod this", Neal dumped the clothes and ran. |
| 50 | Barrington | Barrington was in a flower shop in Birmingham when it happened, recalling that there was only a dozen or so of them in the arcade. Barrington hid behind a counter when they saw someone scream and fall, and did not dare look until the screaming stopped. Barrington found a dummy near the exit and kicked it, finding it was just plastic. Barrington took the hand but does not know what to do with it now, noting that they tried taking it apart but could not find a battery or bullets or anyhing. |
| 51 | rebecca | Rebecca was in the clothes shop and ran out in time as all the dolls came to life. |
| 52 | Trada | Trada was not scared by the mannequins; it was the Action Man figures trying to crawl up their trouser legs that did them in. |
| 53 | Jon | Jon says that he is going to let his kids put out the rubbish from now on. |
| 54 | Alicia Darby | Alicia recalls that the shop window dummies came to life and surrounded her. She tried to push past them but it was no good. She cowered in the middle of them and prayed that someone would saved her. She was answered when the dummies stopped moving and fell to the ground twitching. Alicia asks who saved everyone, thanking whoever it was. |
| 55 | Jamie Ward-Brown | Jamie's mate Simon claims to have seen dummies moving in the window of Top Shop but Jamie reckons he was drunk. |
| 56 | Markusdragon | Markusdragon did certainly not have a good day when their laptop tried to bite them and they had to force it shut by piling books on top of it. |
| 57 | MD Smith | Smith thought they were dreaming, feeling like they were drowning with no air getting to their lungs. Covered in sweat they woke to find that their nylon hypo-allergenic duvet was trying to kill them. They had to fight the thing off before suddenly it stopped wrestling with them and went quiet. Smith could hear screaming in the street outside their bedroom window. The next day Smith realised that it was related to the plastic death threat. |
| 58 | Devillo the Worm | Devillo always knew Burberry Clothes were the mark of the Devil but never thought that Burberry Killers would be made of plastic. They were traumatised for life in Selfridges, which they were never much a fan of, having just popped in for the Mac display downstairs. They saw about 10 chavs who had been giving them a hard time minutes before gunned down by the plastic creatures, reasoning that they could not have been that mad. Devillo says its amaxing how fast one can one and how long one can stay alive and the world around is exploding with gunfire and one is hopping and leaping randomly just to avoid death. Devillo is positive some of the dummies were just watching them wondering what the hell they were up to. Devillo concludes always confuse your enemy and run like bloody hell. |
| 59 | Danny Hassal | Danny was in Marks & Spencer's lingerie department, trying to persuade his girlfriend to buy bras, stockings, swimwear and various other nightwear when suddenly the dummies began to move of their own accord. For a brief moment Danny felt like he was a babe magnet. |
| 60 | Laura | Laura says that it was quite possibly the scariest moment of her life, asking what on Earth was going on. |
| 61 | Jimmy | Jimmy says that his mother was shot. |
| 62 | Anton Dekk | Though he believes it has nothing to do with the story, Anton reports that a guy was found dead in the packing room of the mail-order company he works for. He swallowed roughly 2ft of bubble wrap in an apparent suicide. |
| 63 | Rob Vincent | Rob, is not sure if it was related, but reports that just as he was phoning his mother, the cord on his telephone tried to strangle him and she thought it was a prank call. Today he finally went and bought a mobile phone. |
| 64 | Thomas Walters | Thomas was looking in a shop window in the evening and dummies started to move. He thought it was funny until they smashed the windows. |
| 65 | Die Hard | Die Hard saw the dummies walking down the street in their homw town of St Albans near BHS, smashing through the glass and starting shooting. Die Hard ran into the nearest shop without mannequins and hid until it was over, adding that it was not only London that was attacked. |
| 66 | Chelsy | Chelsy lives in California but was talking with a friend in London when suddenly the phone receive got really warm and sort of sticky and started moving. Chelsy freaked and dropped it on the floor, believing that the plastic in her phone was coming to life too. Chelsy is still too freaked out to use the phone again. |
| 67 | Vico Polard | Vico says "they were like oaahh and i was like achhhh and they were like Bang". |
| 68 | Lance Harrington | Lance saw them inside Woolies. |
| 69 | matt | matt saw two Spanish teenagers get very messed up by inflatable sofas in Camden Market, and the mannequins outside Punkyfish with painted on smiles as they shot down five kids in Blink 182 t-shirts as they tried to run away but tripped on their baggy black trousers. matt just hid amongst the tie dye and prayed. |
| 70 | George Pardonly | George reports his vast collection of wrestling figures went straight into the bin |
| 71 | mariegriffiths | mariegriffiths was in Top Shop when one of the female dummies came towards her, adding that she was more helpful than the usual staff. |
| 72 | tim & amelia | Tim and his baby sister Amelia had just bought a scarf as a present for their dad's birthday when one of the dummies lunged at Amelia. Tim's instinct was to turn and run but he could not so he dragged his sister to a nearby display cabinet and hide inside. They somehow went overlooked by the inhuman plastic things as they went about murdering innocent shoppers, whose only thoughts were of getting home to watch those cheeky chaps on the telly. Tim counts he and Amelia lucky as others died that night. |
| 73 | MFH | MFH reports that Lakeside in Essex was awash with murderous mannequins. MFH adds that they are getting an office job |
| 74 | unknown | unknown was shopping for a wedding dress when the mannequins came to life. They ran an djumpted on to an empty bus and ducked down. As they did this hundreds of bullets were shot into the bus just above their head before the dummies all fell to the floor and started twitching and smelling of burning plastic. |
| 75 | matt | matt was walking in his home town of Walsall when silver-coloured half mannequins with no heads burst out the windows before their hands came apart. matt just ran as they monstrously gunned down anything in sight. |
| 76 | Rob Wampum | Rob was jumped by several white mannequins which were dressed rather fashionably whilst he was not. Rob noticed that the paler and more well-dressed the bystanders were, the less they were attacked, believing that this conspiracy somehow involves all the fashion companies. Rob clarifies that he does not have any proof, just a gut instinct. |
| 77 | brent wilson | Brent was sitting behind the till at work when he heard shooting from outside and people running. He ran as fast as he could and survived with a wound in his shoulder. |
| 78 | dmh | dmh was about to go late night shopping when suddenly a huge mass of dummies lurched out of a department store. dmh was about to call the police when suddenly they started to collapse. Some of them twitched on the ground where they fell in a really eerie and disconcerting sight. dmh asks if this was an act of terrorism, who is the Doctor and how is he linked up in all this. |
| 79 | geoff pavey | Geoff was shopping in Dixon Sports when the dummies came to life and started to shoot people as the front of their hand fell down then all of a sudden they all fell to the ground and stopped moving. |
| 80 | Rebecca | Rebecca feels sorry for the dressmakers altering dresses. |
| 81 | Derek McEwan | Though he did not see any dummies, Derek reports that his Gamecube controller tried to bludgeon him. |
| 82 | megan | Megan was shopping in Topshop with her friends when all the mannequins started shooting at them, adding that her her friend was shot in the leg. |
| 83 | Kenickie | Kenickie was in Toys R Us with a mate when hundreds of Barbie dolls came to life and broke their way out of their boxes before biting peoples' ankles and tying people's shoelaces together in order to trip them up, describing it as a nightmare. |
| 84 | MrHyde | MrHyde was in the Meadowhall shopping mall in Sheffield. Since it was a Saturday night, he did not notice the sounds of screaming and the crush at first. Then the Debenhams cardigan display came to life and there were bodies piled up to the ceiling in Millets. He adds that he might give it a miss for a couple of weekends. |
| 85 | super metcalfe | super metcalfe reports that the plastic dolls were smashing down the windows and terrorising people; they could not believe it at first. |
| 86 | Andy Rice | Andy Rice reports that he had to run for his life as his best friend was shot. |
| 87 | dave00dance | dave00dance was so scared as he ran into a pack of cyberdog mannequins. |
| 88 | jeremy | Jeremy was in Harrods when 20 child-sized dolls came to life, lunging at him and his family. |
| 89 | Dave | Dave reports that the dummies had him surrounded and cornered him up against a shop wall. He realised that they were shop dummies and then felt glass break behind him and two hands grab around his beck. He was struggling to get them off but then, as if by magic, they seemed to malfunction and they had all collapsed on the floor, adding that he was lucky. |
| 90 | Vodex | Vodex asks why people think the dummies are aliens when they're clearly robots. Vodex clarifies that they did not see any themself but says that weird things like this have been going on since at least the 1960s, calling for "more power to the Clives in this world". |
| 91 | Quentin George | Quentin questions the claim that the David Beckham figure did not kill people, adding that that's what "they" want you to believe. |
| 92 | Plastic AJ | Plastic AJ saw the killer dolls and started running. The last time they were so scared of plastic was then they had run up a 20,000 pound debt on their credit card. |
| 93 | robots | A father, robots reports that when the dolls started moving his son stopped and told him to look but as he turned his head the window smashed and his son screamed and ran away. He chased him but was hit in the leg and asks to be contacted if a 4 year old boy with brown hair. |
| 94 | Dr Noah | Dr Noah says that its obviously a mass-hallucination caused by fast food. |
| 95 | Sean | Sean says the dummies were in the shop windows and just kept crashing out before getting their guns out. Sean thought his group should just run buy the dummies kept blocking the stairs, so escaping was near impossible. They just found a corner to hide in. |
| 96 | Grazzie2xfb | Grazzie2xfb reports that the dummies hands dropped off and started blasting the life out of people, getting chaz, asur, even joey, adding that if it ever happens again they will be ready to crack some heads. |
| 97 | lavender2020 | lavender2020 reports being chased in a group by dummies with guns in their hands in Manchester, adding omg. |
| 98 | MattUK | MattUK believes that it was totally a ragweek stunt, he has friends at LSE and they swear they had been planning it for weeks. He suggests that the people who died must have just had heart attacks or something. |
| 99 | Liam McShane | Liam was shopping with his girlfriend when all of the windows broke and the mannequins started moving. People started screaming and Liam and his girlfriend ran all of the way to his sister's house. Liam asks what were the dummies. |
| 100 | Glyn Evans | Glyn reports that their little girl's plastic toys have just started making noises for no reason. |
| 101 | Mark A. Scott | Mark did not witness the event as he lives in the U.S. and cannot believe the website. The story reminds him of concert in the 1970s with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, very scary. |
| 102 | bazza smith | Bazza reports that they came smashing out of the windows in Bentalls, Kingston. |
| 103 | Bazza | Bazza reports "Nah mate, nuttin". |
| 104 | Alan-Wk | Alan-WK was in Marks & Spencers when the mannequins sprang to life and began to fire weapons from their hands. Having just about escaped with his life, he says it is the first he has spoken about it and it was like a nightmare. Noting that he thought he was going mad because there was no mention of it in the news or the papers, he asks who could possibly want to cover something like this up. |
| 105 | Cavalorn | Cavalorn reports that lurching blank-faced things wearing burberry came staggering down the street with no expression at all, nothing that could be considered human, just sheer brainless malice. |
| 106 | Nigel Dawson | Nigel was just shopping in a quick dash into the arcade to get some jeans he noticed out the corner of his eye that the shop dummies were moving like they were alive before their hands opening and started blasting and killing like they did not want anything else to live. Nigel just stood still for what seemed like days but must have just been a second, seeing people falling down dead. Then everything seemed to go far war, Nigel felt the sound was different, removed from what was happening before a dummy turned towards him and raising its hand gun. Nigel then ran amidst the confusion, screaming and death before the dummies stopped all around and fell. Nigel does not know why or what happened as no-one is speaking about it now though some people know someone who is missing and the police are talking of an incident. Nigel asks Clive if he knows what happened. |
| 107 | Doctor Tyres | Doctor Tyres was working in Etams when the dummies suddenly lunged at them with hands everywhere clawing and touching them. Doctor Tyres ran like the clappers but the bloody doors were locked; they screamed like a big girl and the dummies seemed to like that. |
| 108 | CyberDan | CyberDan was lucky to escape with his life. |
| 109 | Terry & Nic | Terry & Nic reports the terror of shop dummies dressed in George from ASDA pointing things at them. |
| 110 | Nick | Nick was just walking down the street when all of a sudden he heard this mighty crash. Before he had the chance to turn and look what the racket was, what appeared to be a mugger at first jumped onto his head but he stumbled in the middle of a road when a bus hit him, knocking off the figured. Nick had a fright when he realised it was a plastic doll wearing the latest Gucci suit, which must have cost him a fortune. To say Nick was shocked is an understatement. |
| 110 | Iggygricey | Iggygricey says that 24 hour plastic people are scarier than Shaun Ryder. |
| 111 | Anon | Anon did not see showroom dummies but reports that the plastic flowers in the flat went mental. |
| 112 | Ernest | Ernest, who already had a pathological fear of mannequins, noted that it was extra terrible for him when he saw them. Still terrified, he reports that he cannot leave the house. |
| 113 | Bryn | Bryn says that the bit on the main site about the David Beckham waxwork is a lie, claiming to have seen it go nuts and start trying to kick people to death. Luckily for them it kept missing kick way above people's heads, though Bryn had never been so scared. |
| 114 | Bob The Job | Bob The Job reports that bad dolls were everywhere. |
| 115 | Brian | Brian from Brighton says that dummies have been around his neck of the woods for years, invading regularly for their party political conferences. |
| 116 | Mick Gair | Mick reports a rather embarassing encounter with one of the so-called "plastic death dolls" when he was in bed, leading him to call the Fire Brigade to extract him from its deathly embrace. |
| 117 | Andrew McCarty | Andrew reports that he saw it and "It was GEAR!" |
| 118 | Chaskel | Chaskel did not see the dummies as they unfortunately did not have a way of making it to the USA. ;) |
| 119 | Luke Norris | With dummies everywhere, Luke had to run behind a tree before the shooting began just as he got down. HE then picked up a kind of sizzling sound and a terrible smell before feeling relief as the dummies died. Luke says he is never going to London again. |
| 120 | Thomas | Thomas was on a bus when he saw huge explosions in front before the whole bus went over. He was cornered by a child dummy before it fell to the ground. |
| 121 | Tom D Kerin | Tom was just walking past the shop windows when the dummies came alive. At first he thought it was some kind of joke for a fundraiser. It was only when they started machine gunning people in the street that he realised that something was wrong. |
| 122 | SG1981 | SG1981 did not see anything though their mate Dave swears blind that his Sprite bottle tried to eat his face. SG1981 has heard rumours of a government cover-up of something similar "in the 70s. Or was it the 80s". SG1981 ends by saying they are sorry to hear about Clive and to keep fighting the food fight. |
| 123 | DaveP | DaveP saw dummies smash down a window before their hand swung open, revealing a gun built in to it which was used to shoot a policeman, suggesting that it was a secret government bioweapon gone wrong. |
| 124 | Scott, Stoke-on-Trent | Scott gives evidence of an incident veyond London, noting that he got a call from a friend who was passing from the potteries shopping centre in Hanley, swearing that the cleaning staff were being chased by the dummies from the clothing shops. Scott first thought he had started drinking early. |
| 125 | Sakura Parker | Sakura says that the dummies killed her sister but that it is all hush hush, officially a freak weather accident but they know the real truth, ending with "viva la resistance" |
| 126 | Booktrunk | Booktrunk saw the dolls and was scared. |
| 127 | keiran | keiran saw dummies outside Woolies. |
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- CK compared appearance of the activation of the London Eye to fireworks and St. Elmo's fire.
- CK also heard screaming.
- TERI_LOVER tried to text while on the wheel.
- Alison was in the sportswear section of Holland's when the attack began.
- Max quickly deduced that the dummies were alien.
- NickP compared the smell of the dying dummies to cabbage.
- One notice on the side of the website claims that video footage of the attacked has been offered and the webmaster warns the readers.
- The webmaster is unsure if the dummies are aliens or weapons.
- There are reports of mass burnings of the dummies.
- A leading waxwork museum denies that a figure of David Beckham tried to kill people.
- There is a small tribute to Clive, which mentions that the website was his idea, and that he was a loving father and husband. Clive, a man in a shed, had many dreams and hopes of uncovering the truth. The webmaster says that "we will not forget" and the website will continue to spread the truth, with the next update coming in the next few days.
- This is a small disclaimer about the photographs on the site not necessarily being in the webmaster's copyright, although no infringement is intended.
- There is a small icon for Campaign for Real Aliens.
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- Like Rose before it, this story does not refer to the Autons by name.
- Although the url of the website (both in- and out-of-universe) was titled whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, this is the first story to actually name the website "Who is Doctor Who?", as the website in Rose was actually called just "Doctor Who?".
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- This story, and The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre, was set in the aftermath of TV: Rose.
- This story was also set at the same time as PROSE: Operation Mannequin, which was told from UNIT's perspective.
- Mickey Smith taking over Who is Doctor Who? would become an ongoing storyline in later stories published on the Who is Doctor Who? tie-in website, from The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre to Lifeboat Museum. The short story The Secret Lives of Monsters, although it has a few minor contradictions with the tie-in website, does mention that the in-universe website continued to be updated after Clive Finch's death. Even the short story Mickey's Blog, which alternately asserts that Mickey never took over Who is Doctor Who? and instead ran a blog, followed a very similar plot to the tie-in website.
- The details about Clive align with his appearance in TV: Rose.
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An edited photograph of the attack.
The London Eye during the attack.
A photograph of the attack.
Another photograph of the attack.
The final photograph of the attack.
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- ↑ The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre, the next short story, reveals when this story takes place.
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