WA Police tweet their own Nat Fyfe ‘scoop’

THE best response to the wild rumour that Nat Fyfe had agreed to join St Kilda came from an unlikely source.

Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe.

THE best response to the wild rumour that Nat Fyfe had agreed to join St Kilda came from an unlikely source.

Perth radio host Brad Fitzgerald sent the footy world into a spin when he declared on WA station 96FM that the 2015 Brownlow Medallist had verbally accepted a contract worth $1.5 million a season.

Fremantle’s management and St Kilda dismissed the supposed scoop, but the last word goes to the Western Australian police force.

They put their Photoshop skills to work to send a scoop of their own to the 73,000 followers of the @WA_Police Twitter account.

A friend-of-a-friends pet cats cousin has it on good authority that Nat Fyfe will join WA Police Airwing next year, not St Kilda#HighFyfe pic.twitter.com/v5gpdFpX3J

— WA Police (@WA_Police) May 1, 2017

The tweet, which as of Monday night had been retweeted 174 times, has some basis in fact — Fyfe wants to become a commercial helicopter pilot. We’re pretty sure the rest is fiction.

If you’re thinking it must have been a slow day for crime in WA, other tweets from the @WA_Police account today included Crime Stoppers CCTV footage, a major drug bust (with the hashtag #DrugsAreBadMMKay) and a social soccer match.