Aussie driver's ridiculous excuse  for breaking major road rule - before police catch him out and issue a massive fine

An Australian driver has left police officers amused with a far fetched excuse after telling him they had spotted him using a mobile phone while behind the wheel.

The driver appeared in an episode of Highway Patrol after he was recently pulled over in Melbourne's north-east by officers from Greensborough Station who said they witnessed him holding a mobile phone to his ear in heavy traffic.

After one cop informed him why they'd stopped him, the driver replied: 'That wasn't my phone that was my glasses case' before insisting he didn't even own a phone.

'That was your glasses case? Can you show me that?' the police officer asked, prompting the driver the pull out the large eyewear container.

'Do you think that looks a bit distinctive from a mobile phone?' the officer questioned.

'My windows are tinted as well,' the man replied.

The officer then asked the man for his number, which he gave him despite saying he didn't have a phone.

Back in the highway patrol car the officer did a registration and licence check and learned the number the driver gave was one digit off the number on file.

'Did you see his glasses case it was the size of a shoebox,' the officer commented to his partner.

The cop then returned to the car and called the man's number they have on file - which then rang in his vehicle.

The man was given a $403 fine and three demerit points.

Remarkably, the driver refused to give up on his claim when asked what he'd learned from the interaction.

'Don't touch your glasses case while you're driving cause they'll think it's a phone,' he said.