King of Emojis

If you have a smartphone, chances are you’ve used an emoji or two. This Indiana State Trooper is putting these little emojis to great use on Twitter! 

State Troopers, Bob Beres and Todd Ringle, are growing in popularity for their use of emojis to communicate safety messages on the social networking site, Twitter. Ringle stated that he has been getting lots of positive feedback from people reading his tweets.

“If I can get people to not drink and drive, or to wear their seat belts because I spent a couple minutes making a creative tweet by using emojis, then it’s a win win for everybody.” he says.

With the last two days of 2016, Ringle tweeted nine times, using 71 emojis, to remind people to not drink and drive; On New Year’s Eve, his district had no drunk driving arrests. Could this be because he tweeted a few emojis? Ringle is inspiring his fellow state troopers to join in on the emoji bandwagon.

Officer Beres mentioned that not only do the emojis get people’s attention, they can be used as a universal language for people who do not speak English. Over 85 billboards have been commissioned as well as thousands of prints for school sports admission tickets.

“My mom is Hungarian, and she speaks some English, but broken English. And when I showed her the photo of ‘beer + car = police car’ she said ‘That means don’t drink and drive.’ If my mom can get this, anyone in the world can get this.” says Beres.