an inebriated 22 year old frenchman tried to resuscitate a rubber dinghy he had mistaken for a drowning person officers found the man kneeling by an inflatable boat in a shipyard in vannes, in brittany near a string of nightclubs and went to investigate 'he was underneath a boat, on his knees, trying to resuscitate a rubber dinghy,' police told le télégramme de brest newspaper officers found a man kneeling by an inflatable boat performing cpr on the vessel (stock picture) police took the young frenchman to prison to sleep off his hangover and recover his senses  the man told officers someone was unconscious inside the vessel he reportedly told them the man 'isn't moving, doesn't reply and must be saved' but on closer inspection, officers discovered the man was in fact performing cpr on the inflatable boat itself to make matters worse, he had already called out firefighters to the scene   an emergency call that the police swiftly cancelled police took the young man to prison to sleep off his hangover and recover his senses
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officers found man by inflatable boat in vannes, brittany, and investigated  the frenchman, 22, told police someone was unconscious inside vessel  but on closer inspection officers found man was performing cpr on boat  to make matters worse, he had already called out firefighters to the scene 