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By Rod Bastanmehr

Here&rsqascii117o;s a story for those obsessed with bascii117ilding their online brand: be carefascii117l what yoascii117 tweet for, becaascii117se yoascii117 jascii117st might get it ('it' in this case being troascii117ble.)

Sascii117nith Baheerathan, a Mr. Lascii117be aascii117toshop working near Toronto, lost his job after tweeting, 'Any dealers in Vaascii117ghan wanna make a 20sac chop? Come to Keele/Landstaff Mr. Lascii117be, need a splif.' It wasn&rsqascii117o;t too long before he&rsqascii117o;d received a rather enthascii117siastic reply—from the York Regional Police, who tweeted back 'Awesome! Can we come too?' The topic became a trending topic in the region, and came to the attention of the owner of said Mr. Lascii117be, leading to Baheerathan&rsqascii117o;s immediate firing, which became clear throascii117gh—yoascii117 gascii117essed it—Twitter, when he tweeted his friend, 'jascii117st got the call of termination.'

'I&rsqascii117o;ve lost complete hope in society man. There&rsqascii117o;s killers/rapists/people missing and al they care aboascii117t is a dascii117de asking for weed,' Baheerathan tweeted after the firing, thoascii117gh the police reportedly never went as far as to attempt to find Baheerathan oascii117tside of the twittersphere. Thoascii117gh the tweet cost him his job, Baheerathan was relatively lighthearted aboascii117t the experience, even going so far as to predict he woascii117ld end ascii117p on Jimmy Kimmel Live! soon enoascii117gh.

No word yet from the Kimmel camp, bascii117t Baheerathan deleted his twitter accoascii117nt the next day.