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Traffic camera picks duck flying above speed limit in Switzerland
Police in Switzerland are not sure who to punish for speeding after traffic cameras catch an offender who is not a driver, but a duck in a hurry.Authorities in the town of Köniz, three kilometers from the capital Bern, posted a picture of the bird in flight in the middle of the street, almost at the same time that the road sensors registered a violation of the speed limit.The animal moved far above the maximum allowed speed, beating its wings at 51 km / h in an area whose limit is 28 km / h. Even by subtracting 5 km / h of margin of error, the duck still violates the city's traffic rules, but it will certainly escape any punishment."It's not clear where we should send the fine," local authorities wrote on Facebook, along with a picture of the duck and a humorous request for suggestions on how to bring the culprit to justice.The case stamped the headlines of Switzerland, but as the French regional newspaper L'Est Républicain points out, such an infringement is not so unique. A parrot was the protagonist of a similar case in 2016 in Germany.Traffic cameras caught the bird at high speed, at low altitude, near the town of Zweibrücken, less than 320 km from the spot of the duck infraction. Authorities had just installed the equipment and were confused when they saw no vehicles on the road when the sensors indicated that something had violated the speed limit by 12 km / h.In a second inspection of the recordings, it was found that the sensors and cameras made a correct reading, and then the parrot was identified passing the empty street at high speed.



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