Flying duck caught in Swiss speed trap believed to be repeat offender

A radar representation of a velocity offender caught successful cardinal Switzerland past period has revealed that the culprit was not lone a duck but astir apt a repetition offender, section authorities person said.

Police successful the municipality of Köniz, adjacent Bern, were astounded erstwhile they went done radar images snapped connected 13 April to observe that a mallard was among those caught successful the velocity trap, the municipality said connected its Facebook leafage astatine the weekend.

The duck was caught going 52km/h (32mph) successful a 30-km/h zone, the station said.

The story, archetypal reported by the Berner Zeitung paper connected Monday, got adjacent stranger.

It turned retired that a similar-looking duck was captured flying successful the aforesaid spot astatine precisely the aforesaid speed, connected precisely the aforesaid day 7 years earlier, the Facebook station said.

The municipality said it had considered whether the full happening mightiness not beryllium a belated April Fool’s gag oregon a “fake” picture.

But the constabulary inspectorate said it was intolerable to doc images oregon manipulate the radar system.

The computers are calibrated and tested each twelvemonth by Switzerland’s national institute of metrology, and the photos taken are sealed, the municipality said.