Thanks to underfunding, Scotland's pothole-scarred roads have been difficult to repair due to lack of cash, but it seems one resident has a solution.

A Scottish prankster, posing as a council worker, is filling potholes with Coco Pops in Kilmarnack, East Ayrshire.

This hilarious video, intended to ridicule the Scottish Council, shows the joker wearing a high-vis jacket as he fills a gaping pothole with the crunchy chocolate cereal as a 'temporary fix' until they 'get a better budget'.

The video, which has now gone viral, was posted on a parody Facebook page of the 'East Ayrshire Cooncil'.

The video begins showing the 'employee' pouring the cereal into the tarmaced hole as the man filming asks him questions.

'What are you doing?' he begins, to which the prankster replies: 'Fixing potholes'.

'It's come from the top. There's only £6million in the budget so this is a cheaper alternative' , he says.

As he continues pouring the cereal into the hole, the man filming, questions: 'You're f*****g kidding me... You're having a f*****g laugh, aren't you?'

The prankster, posing as a council worker, pours Coco Pops into the huge pothole and tops it off with a two-litre bottle of milk as a 'temporary fix'

'Naw, it's came from the top, .. Look, pal, you're going to have to let me get on with my job. I'm just going with orders', he says while pouring a two litre bottle of milk into the hole.

The man behind the camera then asks: 'And you're from East Ayrshire Council?'

The man then points at his jacket and replies: 'Aye, says right there. You're gonna need to let me get on with my job.

The man filming ends the video with 'un-f*****g-believable.'

The video has been viewed over 889,000 times and had social media users in stitches with one suggesting her own town take a leaf out of their book: 'Well, East Tilbury, I present to you the next innovative solution to fix all pot holes in our area.....think Thurrock Council should give it a whirl'.