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Officer uses drunk man's Facebook chat to ask his friends for help

By Ben Hooper
A Welsh police officer who picked up a drunk and disoriented man used the man's phone to ask his Facebook friends for his address. Photo by Loafc7/Twitter
A Welsh police officer who picked up a drunk and disoriented man used the man's phone to ask his Facebook friends for his address. Photo by Loafc7/Twitter

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March 21 (UPI) -- A Welsh man who found himself too drunk to find his own way home was picked up by a police officer who used the man's phone to ask his Facebook friends for help.

Lawrence Court, 20, tweeted Facebook chat screenshots revealing what happened when his housemate, Cameron, was picked up by a Cardiff police officer who found him drunkenly stumbling around the city's streets.

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"Hello it's the police on Cameron's phone," the police officer wrote in the group chat. "He is very drunk and we are dropping him home. He does not know what number Woodville Road he lives on."

The other members of the group chat gave the officer the friend's address, but they then started to question whether they were being pranked.

The police officer proved his identity by sending a selfie to the group.

"It would have been a busy night for the police so none of us actually spoke to him, although I'd love to meet him over a brew because it's hilarious," Court told The Tab.

He said the officer changed Cameron's name in the group chat to "Such a VIP he has a Police escort," a moniker the man's friends intend to make stick.

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