Police Pulled Over A Man For Texting And Driving And The Excuse He Gave Them Will Have You Laughing For Days

The Merseyside Police in jolly old England recently caught this guy driving without a seatbelt and pulled him over.

When he was asked as to why he wasn’t wearing the seatbelt he blamed everything on a 'laughing emoji'.

Yes, you read that right. A laughing emoji.

The Roads Policing Unit from the UK county of Merseyside turned the man’s excuse into a social media joke.

Merseyside’s Roads Policing Unit tweeted a picture of the penalty notice they handed him with the strange response written down on it.

The post has so far been retweeted 796 times and has more than 1,800 likes.

Police have even joined in the comments by posting emoji responses which include a car, a mobile phone, money, a police car and a laughing crying face.

The response sparked numerous responses on social media.

Katherine Hawkes said: "That is shocking and hilarious in equal measure." @ChrisBuckrrs added: "Not laughing now is he?!"

"Seize the phone !!!"

"I mean he's not lying or trying to hide that he was using the phone."

"So far it’s got a reach of 1,7778,383. Hopefully, it will make other think before the text/tweet/call/stream whilst driving."

"A lasting effect of the @EmojiMovie ... PARENTS! Please raise your children to an intellectual level above this #WaterlooRegion #LegoMyEgo"

"Hope the boys in blue weren't in control of any vehicles when sending their tweets about this!"

"Next message to girlfriend:😭🚔💰💰"

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

"if the driver can only communicate via 😊 is he capable of reading the Highway Code?"

If you don’t give the cop a legitimate excuse, it will just give them the upper hand, and you will most likely end up getting a ticket.

However, if you stay confident and play it cool, that just might turn things in your favor.