( CNN ) -- Note to self : When soliciting for drugs on Twitter , try a direct message . Facing another boring day at work , a Toronto car repair shop worker decided some weed would be just the thing to make the day fly by . Instead of reaching out by phone or walking to his friendly neighborhood drug dealer , the user , using the handle @ Sunith_DB8R , tweeted that he needed a joint delivered to his workplace in Vaughan , just north of Toronto . Opinions on marijuana reaching tipping point . The York Regional Police , @ YRP , caught a whiff of the request and enthusiastically -- perhaps too enthusiastically -- responded with , `` Awesome ! Can we come too ? '' You can imagine what happens next . The police forwarded the tweet to an account for a man listed on the board of directors for the repair shop chain . But it did n't end there . When oversharing online can get you arrested . The exchange was retweeted thousands of times . At one point it was a top trend in Toronto that Tuesday . The tweeter then tried a couple of different tactics . First , defiance . `` Never knew weed smokers are more wanted in society than shooters & rapists . Big smh to all of y'all , '' said one tweet . Then , retreat . `` People really think I 'm serious with my tweets ? MANNNNNNNN . '' Finally , shame . `` Ca n't lie , stupid move but would y'all have noticed that tweet if YRP did n't retweet it ? '' Since the tweeter named the company , Mr. Lube , and the intersection where his shop was , the chain got involved . `` Thank you to the York Regional Police for your help and great work . The matter has now been handled , '' it said in a tweet . Handled ? `` Just got the call of termination , '' tweeted the worker later that afternoon . Make that , the ex-worker . Canadian broadcaster CTV reached out to the manager of the repair shop , who said `` there was an employee here by that name ; he no longer works for us . '' The York Regional Police explained in a later tweet , `` If you shouted on a busy street corner about illegal activity & we drove by , we 'd intervene . Think of Twitter as a virtual street corner . '' And one final volley from the social media-savvy department . `` At the end an interesting day , a reminder to our tweeps : the Internet is a public forum # tweetsafe # tweetclassy # imagineyourmamareadingit '' Lesson learned ? Probably . The next day , the man deleted his account . CNN 's Ed Payne contributed to this report .
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