Need to sober up? How about watching Justin Bieber dance?
A Tweet from the Wyoming, Minn., police department during last night’s Super Bowl threatened to submit people arrested for drunken driving to forced viewings of Justin Bieber doing the “shimmedy sham-sham shimmedy shake.”
If you drive drunk tonight we're going to subject you to that Justin Bieber @TMobile Super Bowl Commercial the entire way to jail. #SB51
— Wyoming (MN) Police (@wyomingpd) February 6, 2017
The tweet said that drunken drivers being hauled to jail would have to watch Bieber’s T-Mobile commercial that aired during the big game in which the pop star did his version of celebratory end zone dances while dressed in a tuxedo.
Nearly 15,000 people “liked” the post and retweeted it close to 10,000 times.
“Seems fair,” according to a Washington Post tweet commenting on Wyoming’s drunken-driving deterrence proposal.
More tweets about the game followed from the Wyoming police tweeter, including a clarification that the tweets were coming from Chisago County, not from the Rocky Mountains.
Some are still having some trouble figuring this out – we're the police dept for the CITY of Wyoming in the STATE of Minnesota. #Strugglebus
— Wyoming (MN) Police (@wyomingpd) February 6, 2017
Good morning Wyoming. @ladygaga is stuck in our head too.
Have a great day! And don't forget to just dance!
— Wyoming (MN) Police (@wyomingpd) February 6, 2017
Scrap the Bieber punishment, if you're caught drinking and driving we're going to make you watch Patriots #SB51 gametape. #Brutal
— Wyoming (MN) Police (@wyomingpd) February 6, 2017
Wyoming Police Chief Paul Hoppe said the tongue-in-cheek tweets are a good alternative to a typical public service announcement about responsible drinking and driving.
“It gets people to actually stop and read the message,” Hoppe said.
Hoppe said that with the retweets and media attention attracted by the original Bieber tweet may have resulted in up to 1 million impressions.
He said his 10-officer department made no drunken driving arrests Sunday night in the town of about 7,900 people.
