Michael Vines allegedly threw a fully-loaded .38-caliber revolver into the grass after being involved in a car accident.

Firefighters spotted him disposing of the gun and alerted responding police, who managed to recover the weapon.

Vines, from South Carolina, has also been charged with driving under a suspended license and driving too fast for conditions.

Under a picture of Vines’s tattoo, Greenvile Police Department quipped on Facebook: “The real weapon was placed in property and evidence.”