Fowl play: flying duck caught in Swiss speed trap believed to be repeat offender
Fowl play: flying duck caught in Swiss speed trap believed to be repeat offender
Image shows mallard snapped at 52km/h in same 30km/h zone as a duck on the same day seven years ago
A radar image of a speed offender caught in central Switzerland[2] last month has revealed that the culprit was not only a duck but probably a repeat offender, local authorities have said.
Police in the town of Koniz, near Bern, were astounded when they went through radar images snapped on 13 April to discover that a mallard was among those caught in the speed trap, the municipality said on its Facebook page at the weekend.
The duck was caught going 52km/h (32mph) in a 30-km/h zone, the post said.
The story, first reported by the Berner Zeitung newspaper on Monday, got even stranger.
It turned out that a similar-looking duck was captured flying in the same spot at exactly the same speed, on exactly the same date seven years earlier, the Facebook post said.
The municipality said it had considered whether the whole thing might not be a belated April Fool's joke or a "fake" picture.
But the police inspectorate said it was impossible to doctor images or manipulate the radar system.
The computers are calibrated and tested each year by Switzerland's federal institute of metrology, and the photos taken are sealed, the municipality said.
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