Auckland police could hardly believe their eyes when they pulled over a vehicle to check its rego.

It wasn't a car, a van, or even a bike. It was simply engineering apprentice Clinton Cossey taking his motorised couch for a spin.

"I was actually just down here relaxing on my couch, as you do at the beach, and then I sort of thought there was a helicopter hovering over me. I was like it can't be for me I better move on...as I drove home it was following me all the way...then a police car pulled out and three of them jumped out."

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