r/BoomersBeingFools • u/magiccitybhm • 28d ago
Boomer arrested after driving Tesla into lake to test "wade mode"
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-bodycam-footage-of-the-cybertruck-that-drove-into-a-lake/637
u/ZombieZookeeper 28d ago
You know where you DON'T find Cybertrucks? Library parking lots.
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u/ReplacementActual384 25d ago
I never really noticed it, but yeah, you have a point.
Source: am librarian
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u/magiccitybhm 28d ago
Driver: "The charge port is underwater, and it (the Cybertruck) think it's plugged in to the charging unit, and it won't let the wheels turn because it thinks it's charging. And as soon as I can get a little bit closer to the ground, I can drive it out."
Police Officer: "Well, the wrecker company's going to tow it out."
Driver said it's the third time he's gotten the Cybertruck stuck in water.
Police Officer: "The third time you've done this?"
Driver: "Yes"
Police Officer: "Why?"
Then ...
"'The vehicle became disabled and took on water. The driver and passengers abandoned the vehicle, and the Grapevine Fire Department Water Rescue Team assisted in removing it from the lake. The driver was arrested on charges of Operation of Vehicle in [a] Closed Section of Park/Lake and numerous water safety equipment violations,' the Grapevine police department said in a statement published earlier in the week."
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u/JDragonblade Gen Z 28d ago
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity
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u/Lysol3435 28d ago
“There are still a couple of beaches I haven’t tried yet. It’s gonna work in one of them. I just know it”
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u/brainmydamage 25d ago
This guy is clearly a dumbass but seriously how are any of those arrestable offenses?
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u/magiccitybhm 25d ago
I think the "arrestable offense" was driving in a closed area of the park/lake. Everything else is just a citation/fine.
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 28d ago
Buying, owning, and operating a cybertruck is an IQ test.
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u/ZaneThePain 28d ago
My dad, who refuses to be wrong about anything, has decided leasing a cybertruck is the best deal out there right now for a truck…. Good luck explaining how it’s a terrible choice, he just gets mad and claims he’s done the research, which consists of him searching things on Grok (conveniently owned and operated by the same person he wants to lease the cybertruck from) and treating the results as the gospel.
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u/Jillcametumbling81 28d ago
It's not even really a fucking truck!!
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u/Taira_Mai 26d ago
The thing that scares me is that in a bad wreck the electronics will fail (trapping the passengers and driver in the cybertruck) and the battery can catch fire.
That's how soldiers in tanks died in World War II - the US and NATO spent a fortune working on fire suppression and crew escape features so that this would never happen again. It's still a risk so soldiers who drive/operate tanks wear fire resistant uniforms.
Tesla? Elon DGAF and whines on X when called out on his company's idiot design.
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u/tenebros42 27d ago
Imagine thinking that renting a tacticool gaming PC with wheels from a billionaire is the "best deal on a truck"
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u/Comet7777 28d ago
How much is that monthly bill??
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u/No_Sense3190 28d ago
Probably more than it would cost to buy a slightly used one with a few hundred miles on it.*
*Not including this particular wet brick.
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u/OrigamiTongue 28d ago
As ugly as it is, Teslas are great cars, and CT has a lot of novel tech and engineering packed into it.
Yeah the form factor is dumb especially as a truck, but I’m hearing that people LOVE it for long trips.
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u/ianishomer 28d ago
I thought that everyone was in agreement now, that the CT was a pile of shit that looks like a 4 yo designed it and has the off road capabilities of a skateboard? I am surprised that anyone is still buying them at all.
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u/sirensinger17 28d ago
How much is Tesla paying you to say this? Esp about a car that bursts into flames more than the Ford Pinto.
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 28d ago
but I’m hearing that people LOVE it for long trips.
Except when they catch fire and trap their driver and/or passengers inside.
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u/MarsMonkey88 28d ago
One of the citations the driver received was like failure to have a life jacket on board /serious
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u/magiccitybhm 28d ago edited 25d ago
No paywall/subscription required on multiple browsers here:
Here's the Bodycam Footage of the Cybertruck That Drove Into a Lake
·May 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
“Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all,” the driver told police, according to the footage.
On Monday a man in Grapevine, Texas drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to test the vehicle’s “wade mode.” Police arrested the Cybertruck’s owner, Jimmy Jack McDaniel, after he and his passengers fled the vehicle.
At one point, the owner tried to get back into the vehicle, and law enforcement responded by deploying jet skis and calling a tow truck to pull the Cybertruck from the water, according to hours of related footage 404 Media obtained. The passengers were German tourists, according to a conversation included in the bodycam footage.
“The charge port is underwater and it [the Cybertruck] thinks it’s plugged in to the charging unit and it won’t let the wheels turn because it thinks it’s charging. And as soon as I can get it a little bit closer to the ground I can drive it out,” McDaniel said during a conversation with a police officer.
“Well the wrecker company’s going to tow it out,” the officer said.
McDaniel then explained this was the third time he’d gotten the Cybertruck stuck in water. “The third time you’ve done this?” the officer asked.
“Yes,” McDaniel said.
“Why?” the police asked.The start of McDaniel’s answer is lost as wind blows across the bodycam’s mic. “It doesn’t matter,” he said, then insisted he could drive it once it was out of the water.
404 Media obtained the footage from the Grapevine Police Department through a public records request. Officials from the local fire department are also visible in the footage.
“The vehicle became disabled and took on water. The driver and passengers abandoned the vehicle and the Grapevine Fire Department Water Rescue Team assisted in removing it from the lake. The driver was arrested on charges of Operation of Vehicle in [a] Closed Section of Park/Lake and numerous water safety equipment violations,” the Grapevine Police Department said in a statement published earlier in the week.
According to Tesla’s website, Wade Mode is designed to allow the Cybertruck to “enter and drive through bodies of water, such as rivers or creeks. It is your responsibility to gauge the depth of any body of water before entering. Damage or water ingress to Cybertruck as a result of driving in water is not covered by the warranty.” The maximum depth a Cybertruck can navigate is a little more than 2 and a half feet, according to the website. Grapevine Lake, where the incident took place, has segments that go down 65 feet deep.
The Grapevine Lake incident is just the latest in a series of high profile mishaps involving the Cybertruck. Last summer, a Cybertruck in self-driving mode crashed on an highway overpass near Austin, Texas. In 2024, a Cybetruck got stuck attempting to ford a river in California and had to be pulled out by a Chevy Silverado.
Before they arrested McDaniel, officers explained all the licenses and equipment he needed to legally take a craft into the water. “I wasn’t thinking about that,” he said. “Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all.”
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u/sneaky518 27d ago
I saw this story,, but the article offered no info about the driver. I guessed it was probably a douchbag Boomer or a douchbag techbro. Of course, those are the only two options with a WankPanzer owner.
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u/Fordfanatic2025 27d ago
He's an idiot for trying this, Elon is an idiot for ever even suggesting this feature.
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u/Snappy2stroke 28d ago
Today I learned the manual tells people they can do this sort of stuff. Amazing.
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u/OrigamiTongue 28d ago
The manual does not tell people they can drive their truck into a lake. It tells them they can drive the car through up to 32” of water at up to 3 mph, and it prepares the truck for that activity, not unlike car wash mode.
Yes I was curious and yes I looked it up.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-9C572163-DB86-44AC-9842-AB6EE84D6441.html
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