Ever tried to have a dig at a friend on social media and wishing you hadn't
bothered? Yeah, well, how about if that 'friend' was the long arm of the law?
Police in Scotland received the following Facebook post on the page of the Dumfries and Galloway division.
It was sent by a prankster named Callum Smith along with an accompanying image of a cop van parked over the white lines in a Tesco supermarket car park. Smart arse Callum tagged the photo with 'Some parking at Tescos Dumfries tonight'.
All
very hilarious. That is until Callum got an even smarter response from the
cops. They'd clearly had a wee trawl through his historic photos and found some
evidence of their own to suggest that Mr Smith was not entirely innocent of
a parking violation or two himself.
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"Remember you parked in the same car park 5 years ago and tagged the photo the 'polo way to park'," they wrote. It was accompanied by a photo captioned: 'Here's the photo to remind you, oh and that's also a disabled space'.
Social media understandably exploded with folk all too willing to rub Callum's nose in his own karmatic stupidity. "Love a bit of karma," wrote one Facebook user, while another weighed in with the opinion that the cops had "won the internet".
"What a response! Totally, and utterly owned!" said a third Facebook user, while a fourth wrote "haha u better get ur self to a&e for treatment for that buuurrrrrrn!!!"
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The man himself was even forced to admit that he'd been had. "Credit where it's due," wrote the presumably chastened Smithy.
Police Scotland have been in need of a bit of a PR boost after cops in the capital, Edinburgh, caused a sexism storm last week by posting the caption 'These Ladies are more than just pretty faces!' with an accompanying photo of three of their female police officers.
They were widely criticised by people online, with one commenter writing that they were 'going back to the 70s'.
Perhaps they can PM Callum with a few pointers on how to sooth such a massive, self-inflicted burn.
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Words: Mike Meehall Wood
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