People Turned This Computer-Generated Photo of a Suspected Burglar Into a Hilarious Meme

UK police are trying to track down a burglar, but Twitter is roasting their editing skills.

People on Twitter will drag anything and everything for the sake of a few favs and retweets, and this computer-generated composite photo of a suspected burglar is no different. 

We've issued an efit for of a suspect in a distraction burglary in Stratford in February. If you have any information please contact us. https://t.co/NipFniL1ed pic.twitter.com/oGiYfxIi2e

— Warwickshire Police (@warkspolice) April 3, 2018

The computer-generated image comes from the Warwickshire Police Department in the UK, who were hoping it would help them track down the suspect. He is accused of robbing a woman’s house with the help of another man back in February. 

I know his sister 😳 pic.twitter.com/eWa6jFISx4

— runningref (@SDivitt) April 3, 2018

The image is, admittedly, more reminiscent of a funny Instagram filter than it is a hardened criminal, and people wasted no time pointing that out.

"Could you describe the burglar?" "So you know Henry J. Waternoose the third from Monsters Inc.? He looked like that" https://t.co/srNjTy6J3P

People also compared the burglar’s likeness to a plethora of other things, quickly turning it into a hilarious meme—to which the police responded by asking everyone to settle down.

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— Dawn 💕 (@dawn_dawnsoa) April 3, 2018

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— Abu WanKinobbi☝🏻 (@AbuWankinobbi) April 3, 2018

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— Goulding (@Goulding_23) April 3, 2018

We can confirm that this is real and that we anticipated the attention! But jokes aside, it was created from a description provided and it's serious as a woman was victim of a horrible crime. Hopefully the attention will mean we identify the offender/bring him to justice quicker

— Warwickshire Police (@warkspolice) April 3, 2018

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