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Find the Bastard Who Shat Down My Chimney Tabloid Meme

This is a viral meme originating from a 2013 clipping of the sensationalist UK tabloid *The Sunday Sport*. The large, attention-grabbing headline reads "FIND THE BASTARD WHO SHAT DOWN MY CHIMNEY!" with a subhead "Homeowner's flue poo horror". The piece covers the absurd real event where homeowner Mike Williams discovered human feces in his recently cleaned chimney. The layout includes a portrait of the annoyed homeowner, a circled zoomed-in photo of an unidentified man defecating on top of Williams' chimney, a wider shot of the house roof with the same man marked by a red arrow, and article text explaining the incident and Williams' anger over the bizarre act. The meme is popular due to the absurd, over-the-top nature of the crime and the tabloid's sensational, unfiltered headline.
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FIND THE BASTARD WHO SHAT DOWN MY CHIMNEY! Homeowner's flue poo horror

Overview

This is a viral meme originating from a 2013 clipping of the sensationalist UK tabloid The Sunday Sport. The large, attention-grabbing headline reads "FIND THE BASTARD WHO SHAT DOWN MY CHIMNEY!" with a subhead "Homeowner's flue poo horror". The piece covers the absurd real event where homeowner Mike Williams discovered human feces in his recently cleaned chimney. The layout includes a portrait of the annoyed homeowner, a circled zoomed-in photo of an unidentified man defecating on top of Williams' chimney, a wider shot of the house roof with the same man marked by a red arrow, and article text explaining the incident and Williams' anger over the bizarre act. The meme is popular due to the absurd, over-the-top nature of the crime and the tabloid's sensational, unfiltered headline.

Origin notes

The source material is a real newspaper clipping first published in The Sunday Sport, a UK sensationalist tabloid, on October 8, 2013. It later spread virally as a meme across social media platforms, including Reddit's r/Meme community, where it was shared with the title "Yo what did i just get sent". It is widely circulated as an example of absurd tabloid journalism and bizarre real-world events.

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