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A police force was left publicly humiliated when their appeal for a 'missing' girl on Facebook went a bit wrong.

Queensland Police Service had posted a photograph of the young woman on their Facebook page with the caption: "Can you help us find a 17-year-old girl missing from Carindale?" and a link to an appeal on their website.

It received plenty of 'sad' and 'shocked' reactions on the social media site, but got far more attention once it had received a certain comment...

(Image: Facebook)

Erian Thompson explained she was just sitting in her bedroom and it was all a misunderstanding.

She wrote: "Guys I'm fine I'm not missing this is an over reaction to a fight I had with my sister I'm legit just sitting in my bedroom."

Well, that's a bit embarrassing.

To be fair to the police force, they were only doing their jobs and making sure the girl was safe.

Even when she had responded to say she was fine, they commented that they couldn't remove the post until she had been seen by a police officer and asked her to come into the station.

A spokeswoman for Queensland Police told the Daily Mail the girl was located safe and well shortly before 5pm and the missing persons post was taken down.



But it had already been shared at least 800 times by amused Facebookers.