(WHDH) — A state trooper is reminding the public that “littering is always bad” after a motorist chucked a dirty diaper out of their window and hit him.

Sgt. Stephen Wheeles‏, of the Indiana State Police, was on his way home from the state fair in Indianapolis on Sunday when a diaper flew out of the car in front of him and nailed his cruiser.

“Littering by throwing a used diaper out of the car window right in front of a police officer is asking for a ticket,” Wheeles‏ said in a tweet.

A man who was sitting in the backseat of the vehicle with a baby told Wheeles that the wind blew the diaper out, CNN reported.

The man was ticketed for littering.

Littering is always bad…. Littering by throwing a used diaper out of the car window right in front of a police officer is asking for a ticket… ….especially when diaper hits said police officer’s 🚓. 🤨#PressHardFiveCopies #Ewww — Sgt. Stephen Wheeles (@ISPVersailles) August 19, 2019

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