14 DAY TRIAL // Just yesterday, law enforcement officers in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, arrested a driver they caught steering his car not with his hands, as is customary, but with his knees.
The devil-may-care motorist, a man in his 20s whose identity has not yet been made public, was spotted and pulled over sometime around 4 p.m. local time.
He was charged with several traffic offenses, among which careless driving, and his car was impounded for 30 days, one of the Melbourne officers who handled the case told the press in an interview.
In his defense, his hands were otherwise occupied
It just so happens that there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why this supposedly reckless man was driving around Melbourne's Point Cook suburb steering his car with his knees.
He was eating a McFlurry ice cream at the time, and so his hands were otherwise occupied. Placing his hands on the wheel to properly steer his Toyota would have meant pausing the binging and the man simply couldn't bring himself to do so.
After all, what's traffic safety and being a law-abiding citizen when a creamy McFlurry ice cream is staring you in the face, pretty much begging you to drop everything and eat it?
Of course, there's also the issue of drug consumption
The Age tells us that, having arrested the man, police officers thought his behavior behind the wheel reckless and weird enough to warrant a drug test. By the looks of it, the test came back positive.
Plainly put, it appears that the driver's sudden urge to devour an entire McFlurry ice cream even if that meant steering his car with his knees was the end result of a hearty drug-induced appetite.
Just to be sure, authorities in Melbourne wish to repeat the test. Should the man once again test positive for drug consumption, a whole new set of charges will be filed against him.