Anti-vaxxers try to troll football legend but arrive at the wrong house

A group of anti-vaxxers posted “legal papers” at a football legend’s house, only for internet sleuths to prove they arrived at the wrong mailbox.

A number of anti-vaxxers thought they were posting “legal papers” to ex-football star Alan Shearer, but they picked the WRONG letterbox.

It came after the former England captain and Newcastle United hero urged Brits to get their boosters in a video promoted by the Premier League.

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But the clip urging people to “protect ourselves and others” this Christmas enraged idiot anti-vaxxers, who launched a bid to “serve him” with papers.

Their pathetic attempt failed however, after the group - three men and one woman - picked the wrong house, according to The Sun.

They posted their papers through the letter box of a property they mistakenly thought was his family home.

In the video, the group are seen gathered outside a gated house.

After pressing an electronic buzzer, one of them posts documents into an external letterbox.

It is unclear what the papers contained, but anti-vaccination protesters routinely share templates of supposed legal documents which they film themselves depositing.

A group of anti-vaxxers posted a letter serving football legend Alan Shearer, except they put the letter in the wrong mailbox. Picture: AP Photo/Scott Heppell

The man who posted the documents says on the video: “Everyone is going to get this, every celebrity, sick of you.

“Just causing more trouble for us, lies, all lying.

“That’s the truth in that letterbox there, in Alan Shearer’s f*****g house.”

But a commenter on the group’s Facebook post suggested the property was not Shearer’s - with others confirming the group got it embarrassingly wrong.

Previous targets of anti-vaccination protesters’ supposed legal papers include hospitals and the broadcaster Jeremy Vine.

Lawyer Adam Wagner, a human rights expert and commentator on Covid legislation, poured scorn on the anti-vaccination protesters’ claims of using the law.

“It is difficult to overemphasise how spurious it all is,” Wagner said.

“It is wrong and should not be indulged by anyone.

“This is so far down into the depths of legal fantasy, people should not be doing it, no-one should be sharing it.

“People who might genuinely have issues with vaccination should not be taken in by this.”

He said people who believed these documents had a basis in law might as well be “dressing up as Professor Dumbledore and saying magical spells.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been reposted with permission.

Originally published as Anti-vaxxers try to troll football legend but arrive at the wrong house