A motorist has been booked for speeding twice by the same police officer - 12,000 miles apart.PC Andy Flitton booked the driver on the A5 in London two years ago, reports the New Zealand Herald.
And now he has nabbed him again – in Christchurch, New Zealand – after both men emigrated halfway around the world.
Constable Flitton said that as he wrote out the latest ticket, the driver asked if he had worked in London and if he had operated a laser gun on the A5.
“I thought it was you,” said the man, who has not been named. “You gave me my last speeding ticket there two years ago.”
Constable Flitton said he could only laugh when the man he had booked recognised him as the officer who had ticketed him in Britain two years earlier.
The driver, who produced British and South African licences, told Constable Flitton that he had just emigrated from England, where he had lived for 12 years.
Constable Flitton had been an officer with the Metropolitan Police for 26 years before emigrating to the south island of New Zealand.
“At first, I hadn’t recognised him, but the minute he said it I remembered the whole thing. We both just had a laugh,” the police officer said.
“He only ever broke the law twice and both times I was the one to give him a ticket. It just shows what a small world it really is.”
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