Twitter users mocked a police account for posting a bizarre e-fit showing a beaming suspect with unusually large cheeks.
The ASPolice North Somerset account released the picture in a bid to sole a distraction burglary case in Weston-super-Mare.
However the post was met with a flurry of tongue-in-cheek responses - as people poked fun at the computer generated image.
The individual was compared to a variety of chubby characters, including The Fat Controller, from The Railway Series, Humpty Dumpty and even Megabus's Sid, who adorns the company's vehicles.
One person joked: "Hi, I have some important information of the whereabouts of the stolen jewellery based on this e-fit. It’s in his cheeks."
The suspect's cheeks were stretched even wider in one photoshopped picture shared underneath the police post.
@Minister_27 wrote: "Poor bloke is obviously carrying a little excess Christmas weight."
@MrBrownsEtc added: "Distraction burglary in Weston-super-Mare as someone sent a space hopper bouncing around the gaff whilst his accomplice cleared the cabinets out."
One user commented that it looked like the smiling suspect enjoyed his work, while others posted pictures of celebrities they thought he had a resemblance to.
Avon and Somerset Police said the e-fit impression is of a man who distracted a resident while her house was burgled.
Officers claim he told a female resident his son had thrown a set of keys into her garden and asked if he could retrieve them.
She agreed and took the suspect down a walkway, however he sprinted off after someone shouted out from the direction of the road.
He jumped into a car with two other men and escaped.
The victim's neighbour then told her she had been burgled - and she found that a safe containing jewellery had been stolen from her home.
