- A Mustang was pulled from San Diego Bay with several open cans of alcohol inside.
- Tire tracks leading to the water suggest a wild ride before the Ford’s watery plunge.
- Mission Bay’s seawater could mean a quick, rusty demise for the pony car after its adventure.
Just a few days ago, authorities in Palm Beach County, Florida, fished a Ford Mustang out of a canal with no driver in sight. Fast forward a week, and an eerily similar scene unfolded in San Diego—suggesting that Mustangs may have evolved from targeting crowds at car meets to developing a newfound affinity for bodies of water.
Authorities were alerted to a muscle car resting in the artificial bay early in the morning. Local lifeguards rushed to ensure no one was in the Mustang before police got the go-ahead to tow it out. Weirdly, the owners then decided to casually stroll up to the scene.
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OnSceneTV reports that while San Diego Police Department officers were waiting for a tow truck, the Mustang’s owners showed up. When questioned, they claimed to have no idea how their car ended up swimming with the fishes—or how they just happened to know exactly where to find it.
The Ford doesn’t appear to have suffered any major bodywork damage, except it does have a large dent in the roof—perhaps where the driver stood to make their great escape. It does have a handicap license plate on it and when authorities arrived at the scene, the passenger side window was open.
Inside, they found several open cans of White Claw hard seltzer. Tire tracks snaking across the sand suggest that the driver of the Mustang might have had a beach adventure before plunging into the bay.
Dunking a car in water is bad enough, but in this case, it’s a special kind of disaster, thanks to Mission Bay’s seawater cocktail. That means rust could soon inundate the car, and it’s possible that if it was insured at the time of the crash, it’ll be declared a total loss.