# Driver charged over car with no steering wheel **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535 "2013-07-25T16:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/1 "2013-07-25T16:27:59Z")
I don’t really have a question, I just thought some of you would get a kick out of this: [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-23/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/4837680](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-23/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/4837680) Maybe you have stories of similar or superior hackism? I guess my question is for the owner of the car in the article, and the question is: REALLY??? ---
**Author:** ![RemcoW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/remcow/32/2471_2.png) [@RemcoW](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RemcoW)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/2 "2013-07-25T17:30:57Z")
LOL!! Who knew they had rednecks in Australia?? "A 38-year-old Northfield man is facing charges including driving while disqualified and returning a positive drug test." Yeah, like we didn’t see that coming. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/3 "2013-07-25T17:40:08Z")
I’m surprised it wasn’t stolen. Usually thieves get around the Club by cutting the steering wheel off and driving with a pipe wrench or vise grips clamped to the steering column. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/4 "2013-07-25T17:45:34Z")
It would be perfectly legal to use a vice grips in place of the steering wheel as long as an inflated balloon is attached to the vice grips for an air bag. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/5 "2013-07-25T18:07:55Z")
I dunno, looks like a good format for a tool commercial. “Vice grip, A tool you can trust”. ---
**Author:** ![DrRocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/drrocket/32/2603_2.png) [@DrRocket](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DrRocket)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/6 "2013-07-26T00:51:33Z")
A little backstory I read elsewhere is that this guy is a repeat idiot. His family assumed if they removed the steering wheel, it would ground him. Obviously a mistaken assumption. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/7 "2013-07-26T03:22:03Z")
The lesson = lay off the crank ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/8 "2013-07-26T03:41:21Z")
Seems like it would have been a whole lot easier to just hide the keys. Yee haw… ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/9 "2013-07-26T04:21:52Z")
A steering heel probably would not have helped, not having 2 blown tires and probably not being igh as a kite might have helped. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/driver-charged-over-car-with-no-steering-wheel/80535/10 "2013-07-26T21:09:02Z")
He has not only raised the bar of what’s dumb, he’s hurled it skyward. His family must be very proud.