{"id":6646,"date":"2025-05-14T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/a-radar-clocked-someone-going-nearly-double-the-speed-limit-it-turned-out-to-be-a-duck-and-a-repeat-offender\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:18:52","slug":"a-radar-clocked-someone-going-nearly-double-the-speed-limit-it-turned-out-to-be-a-duck-and-a-repeat-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/a-radar-clocked-someone-going-nearly-double-the-speed-limit-it-turned-out-to-be-a-duck-and-a-repeat-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"A radar clocked someone going nearly double the speed limit. It turned out to be a duck \u2014 and a “repeat offender.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A radar image of a speed offender caught in central Switzerland last month revealed that the culprit was not only a duck, but likely a “repeat offender,” local authorities said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Police in the town of Koniz, near the capital Bern, were astounded when they went through radar images snapped on April 13 to discover that a mallard was among those caught in the speed trap, the municipality said on its Facebook page<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The duck was caught going 52 kilometers per hour (32 mph) in a 30-km zone, the post said, along with a photo of the fast fowl.<\/p>\n

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Police say the duck was likely a repeat offender after being snapped in the same spot in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The story, first reported by the Berner Zeitung newspaper on Monday, got even stranger.<\/p>\n

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. Officials called the duck a “notorious racer and repeat offender.”<\/p>\n

The municipality said it had considered whether the whole thing might not be a belated April Fool’s joke or a “fake” picture.<\/p>\n

But the police inspectorate said it was impossible to doctor images or manipulate the radar system.<\/p>\n

The computers are calibrated and tested each year by Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), and the photos taken are sealed, the municipality explained.<\/p>\n

The Facebook post concluded: “We hope you enjoy pondering curious coincidences, criminal activities of animals and the maximum flight speed of ducks.”<\/p>\n

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