When you're a parent, it pays to carry a clean up kit in your car. Tissues, plasters, spare nappies and maybe a quick snack as a bribe. You have to keep your bases covered.

Going by this story, we should now add "sick bag" to our kits. Californian father Ben Patterson found himself internet famous this weekend when his young son Declan had a bit too much food and found himself throwing up in the backseat of the family car. In texts to his wife Stephanie (who was out getting dinner with friends and had her phone on "Do Not Disturb), Ben finds the situation of Declan's vomit gets quickly out of hand. Anyone who's thrown up after seeing someone else vomit can empathise with this.

(Screenshot via Ben Patterson on Facebook)

The vomit was so bad that THE POLICE came and stopped Ben to perform a breathalyzer. It looks like the scene of a young Dad stopping a car to throw up on someone's front garden alarmed a woman. So noticing Declan in the back seat, decided to call the police to make sure Ben was not drinking drunk and endangering a minor. Ben thankfully passed his breathalyser test, but that's still to say his son's vomit was so bad, it took the police to sort things out. We're almost impressed, if not for Ben describing it as smelling "like rotting whale blubber". The series of pictures on his Facebook page have racked up 94K likes and 154K Facebook shares, as many parents call the incident the#‎barfpocalypse‬. But what about poor Declan and the vomit covered car? Ben reported to Today Parenting that he left the cleanup to his wife while they sorted out their boy's sickly tummy.  "She's amazing," he wrote. Oh kids.