diff --git a/app/models/Incident.php b/app/models/Incident.php
index 2cd0ad6a..6d46f16e 100644
--- a/app/models/Incident.php
+++ b/app/models/Incident.php
@@ -68,6 +68,6 @@ class Incident extends Eloquent implements \Dingo\Api\Transformer\TransformableI
      */
     public function hasMessage()
     {
-        return ($this->message !== '');
+        return (trim($this->message) !== '');
     }
 }