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Yvonne Powley saw a bare-legged police officer on her walk in Little Shoal Bay on Friday.
The law’s long legs reached as far as Auckland’s Northcote on Friday, where a police officer was seen digging his pants in pursuit of justice in Little Shoal Bay.
Aucklanders Yvonne and Rob Powley were going for their daily walk when they came across the unusual scene.
First, Yvonne saw a ute being swept up by the tide, then a group of police officers gathered on the beach.
“But then I saw something very unusual: a pile of police uniforms on the sand,” she said.
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In a scene reminiscent of comedian Leigh Hart’s ‘speedo cops’ sketcha police officer had taken off his pants to enter the water to the ute.
“Poor thing, I bet he didn’t expect us to come round the corner and catch him in the act,” Yvonne said.
She described the ute as “good and really stuck in the mud”, she was told by another police officer at the scene that the driver of the vehicle had been caught by the tide.
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Police officers watch as a man, presumably a police officer, takes off his uniform and enters the water.
She thinks the officer was checking to see if anyone was still in the car.
“He certainly did his best, it must have been freezing there at the time,” she said.
A police spokesman confirmed a report of a vehicle partially submerged in shallow water at Maritime Terrace in Northcote at 7:03 a.m. Friday.
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The police officer peered into the ute to make sure no one was inside.
Police arrived at the scene and said the vehicle was empty, but the investigation is still ongoing, the spokesman said.
This isn’t the first time something unusual has gotten stuck in the mud at Little Shoal Bay, though.
In 2019, a little yellow digger – hired myself to retrieve a 4×4 that got stuck on the beach in Auckland’s north coast – also got stuck in the muddy water.