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[AllyCat]

MADISON (WKOW) -- From Madison Police Department:

Early Wednesday morning, around 1:50 a.m., Madison Police responded to North Lake Street and Lake Mendota after receiving information that a car had just driven in to the water. A responding officer discovered there was a 1999 Buick Century about 75-feet from the shoreline. The officer could see about two feet of the rear of the car, which was still above water. The rest of the Buick was submerged.

A man wearing wet clothes approached the officer and said this was entirely his fault, that he "must have taken a wrong turn." The driver, 20-year-old Jeremiah Hoefle of Waunakee, said he was not injured and was able to swim safely to shore.

A motorcyclist told officers the car had nearly hit him at the corner of State and Lake Streets just before it entered the lake.

Hoefle told officers he was alone in the Buick, but the Dane County Sheriff's Department Dive Team was called in just to make sure that was the case. Police say it was.

Hoefle has been tentatively charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, reckless driving, and underage person consuming alcohol off licensed premises.


http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=8799248


Just add alcohol!

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I gotta confess...

By the end of the first paragraph, my immediate thought was "Aw crap, Peg, not again..."

[htuttle]

2. "Get 700 N Lake Street for Mr. Fish..."

That's been a prank sometimes played on new cab drivers at the cab companies here for years (similar to when newbie mechanics are asked to fetch muffler bearings at the parts store, or when brand new stock persons at a department store are told to get a box stretcher...). But they never actually drive into the water.

:eyes:

[madrchsod]

3. how did he do that?

i could`t get the little guy on google street view to go that far...but i see how the dumb ass drove straight into the lake. if it was winter i suppose he`d driven to the other side.....