Mustang owner doesn’t know how it ended up in the water

Just days earlier, authorities in Palm Beach County, Florida, pulled a Ford Mustang from a canal with no driver aboard, and a week later, an eerily similar scene unfolded in San Diego — suggesting that the Mustang may have evolved from targeting crowds at car parties to developing a new affinity for bodies of water.

Authorities were alerted early in the morning to a muscle car parked in the artificial bay. Local lifeguards arrived on the scene and made sure no one was inside before police were given permission to tow the car away. Strangely enough, the owner then decided to leisurely walk to the scene.

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OnSceneTV reports that officers with the San Diego Police Department were waiting for a tow truck when the Bronco’s owner showed up. When questioned, they claimed they had no idea how their car ended up swimming with the fish — or they just happened to know where to find it.

The Ford did not appear to have any major body damage, except for a large dent in the roof – perhaps where the driver was standing when he fled. The car did have a disabled license plate, and the passenger side window was open when police arrived on the scene.

They found several opened cans of White Claw hard seltzer inside the car. Tire tracks winding through the sand suggested the driver of the Mustang may have explored the beach before running into the bay.

A car in the water would be bad enough, but this disaster was unique because the waters of Mission Bay are mixed, meaning that rust would quickly engulf the car, and if the car was insured at the time of the accident, it would most likely be declared a total loss.