In 2007 Hardie was arrested as one of the 11 participants in a prank carried out by The Chaser for the ABC television show The Chaser's War on Everything at the Sydney APEC summit. In the stunt, a fake Canadian motorcade was waved through the security perimeter into the exclusion zone. Hardie was one of the actors dressed as security guards running alongside the motorcade. The charges against Hardie and all other participants were dropped in April 2008.
