Sheriff's baffling tweet about a boulder in the road goes gloriously viral

If you're navigating the snowy roads roads of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado, you had better keep a wary eye out for boulders.

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Small boulders, large boulders, and — most importantly of all — large boulders the size of small boulders.

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Yep, that is an official tweet from the San Miguel County Sheriff's Twitter feed. The account itself has a couple thousand followers, and most of its previous tweets each received a small handful of retweets.

But that one has over 19,000 and counting.

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Unsurprisingly, many of the replies tapped into the same thing.

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It wasn't long before the jokes started.

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So many zingers.

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The ever-professional sheriff, meanwhile, kept on tweeting as if nothing was amiss.

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(Although the account did finally confirm the boulder's exact size, in what is surely a subtle nod to the initial tweet's glorious popularity.)

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64 cubit ft. Is that a medium boulder, a large small boulder, or a small large boulder?

We can't see the debate dying down anytime soon...

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