Police Slapdown Texting Driver In Genius Tweet

Police pulled over a man for using his phone while driving.

His excuse wasn't great.

Driver stopped on St Helens Linkway whilst using a mobile phone and failing to wear a seatbelt. Driver provided a very unusual reply. #reported #Fatal4 pic.twitter.com/SMy8PrP4mz

— Roads Policing Unit (@MerPolTraffic) January 23, 2018

The police's response was genius.

🚙 📱 👈🏼 😂 🚓 🛑 ✋🏼 ⁉️ 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🗒 🖊 = 6️⃣ & 💷 😔

— Roads Policing Unit (@MerPolTraffic) January 23, 2018

And people are loving it.

😂😂😂 I absolutely ♥️ this!!

— Stacie Allison (@stacie_allison) January 24, 2018

👌👮🏼‍♀️😘

— LavenderHouseCrafts (@MR5CH) January 23, 2018

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say will be taken down and may be encoded into an emoji"

— Fully Vaccinated Recycle Bin 💉 (@recylebin_) January 23, 2018

Fair play.