If you ask the internet for help, sometimes -- just sometimes -- it will deliver in a big way.
It just might not be quite the way you were expecting.
SEE ALSO:This may be the greatest interaction with a delivery man of all timeOn Wednesday, a man called Rory went for a birthday drink with his friend Nick in Sheffield, UK. He posted the following, fairly innocent request on Twitter:
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See, because they were at a Wetherspoons pub, anyone with the Wetherspoons app could order a drink remotely on their behalf.
Perhaps they were hoping a few friends who couldn't be there in person would send over a pint. Maybe, if they were lucky, a stranger or two would chip in.
That wasn't quite what happened, though.
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Yep: very quickly, things began to go wrong.
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The whole situation escalated pretty quickly.
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At one point there was a brief reprieve.
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Then, abruputly, things got ridiculous again.
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An hour and a half later, Rory and Nick attempted to make their escape.
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But the internet wasn't having any of it.
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The lesson? If you're going to ask the internet for help, you have to be prepared for the ramifications...
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