Does This Look Like a Gun to You ?

[ErikStenger]

It did to Australian cops who found this steering wheel lock while searching 18-year-old Chad Hasting's car after they pulled him over. They called in backup and arrested him for possessing a gun.

Two more cops arrived in an unmarked car, and moments later, Chad Hastings was freed. According to Hastings, the arresting officer muttered, "Get a new steering wheel lock, it looks like a bloody gun," and told him he was a "a lucky boy," since "any other cop would have had you at gunpoint."

I have to say, if there was a gun that looked just like the Club, it would probably be a space death ray gun, so I think I'd have probably done same thing.

 

[cjjeans]

Its true though... it could have been a gun! I've seen a steering wheel lock shot gun before.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20030126/ai_n9713494/
article: Guns in Disguise!
[blockquote] STEERING LOCK SHOTGUN

It looks like an ordinary wheel lock but the handle has been hollowed out and modified to fire rounds from a shotgun [/blockquote]

 

[amazon3d]

I think the officer should be slapped.... how can you not tell that is a steering lock....

 

[Dirty-Lex]

CJ has a very strong point, those things in the criminal world can be popular and are sometimes a dangerous reality, however the Officer was an idiot, to not check his record and nonchalantly make sure that he was not a criminal. I would have not arrested, him thats bullshit, and I would have made sure that the charges were dropped. sounds like the cop is a little twitchy on the take down finger, he was probably a rookie, that just got out of :"Austrailia, is evil class :/"