Sending helpful tweets can be bad for your wealth, it seems.

The £60,000 a year head of Greewich Tourism, Neil McCullam, told his fellow twitters about a trip he was making to Woolwich, which has something of a name for pickpockets, and advised that he was going to “make sure wallet is not visible” Sadly his employers did not share his sense of duty to warn the public about such things and he was sacked for his honesty.

Watch your wallet in Woolwich…