When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year: The funniest online reactions to the Ross-from-Friends lookalike on the run in Blackpool

When Blackpool police said they wanted to talk to a man about a theft at a local restaurant, it got the internet very excited.

The alleged perpetrator was the spitting image of Ross from the US hit sitcom Friends, and the comments came thick and fast on news sites like the Blackpool Gazette, and news outlets in Europe and from as far afield as Australia. Here's a selection of the funniest:

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