A man with no legs who crudely attached two metal poles to the pedals to drive his car then led police on an 80mph chase was jailed. Robert Bate, 27, used gaffer tape to secure the poles in place before strapping them to his wrists in a desperate bid to get behind the wheel, a court was told.There really is a hundred and one uses for duct tape.
And sometimes, well, ya just gotta go for a spin, y'know?
Bate lost both his legs after collecting coal for his father from the railway line near his childhood home in Seaham, Co Durham. After climbing onto a coal wagon he lost his footing when the train shunted and he slipped onto the track whereupon the carriages severed both his legs.
High on a cocktail of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, he sped off with two male passengers on board before being spotted by police driving "erratically."