It may be what they use in our favourite cartoons to mastermind a fake death, but one woman has decided to use ketchup to trick her boyfriend into thinking she had been killed.
The bizarre incident occurred in Germany after the unknown woman’s lover was unable to accept that she was leaving him.
The couple- who are both married- met online before embarking on a year-long affair. The woman ceremoniously tried to dump her Internet lover so she could get back together with her husband.
After being ‘bombarded’ with messages from her lover, the woman decided to take matters into her own hands and fake her own death.
She not-so-cleverly decided to opt for ketchup as fake blood to make it look like she had been in a horrific accident.
After sending pictures to her lover, he quickly dialled 999 where the authorities were forced to intervene.
Police investigated the incident before breaking the sorry news to the jilted love.r
A police spokesman told German media: “Many a police officer asks himself every now and then whether he's on a hidden-camera show or accidentally fell into the location of a third-rate detective film."
Officers are now to decided whether the woman should be forced to cover police costs.