A Timaru man says he never saw his new found fame coming, after a video of him evading police on his mobility scooter went viral.



The hilarious footage emerged on Thursday morning. Double amputee Charlie Durham was on his way home to get his tea ready, when a police officer tried to pull him over for speeding.

In the video, the patrol car's lights are flashing as Durham weaves in and out of traffic, and then onto a footpath.

The officer then tries to manoeuvre around traffic to stay with him.

He told Newshub he didn't want to stop because he was worried about being taken off his chair and thrown in the police car.



"The first thing he [the police officer] did was yell out the window, 'slow down!'"



Durham told Newshub he wouldn't usually take to the road, but he had to get home to get dinner ready.