Driving home from the dealer in a new (to you) car might be an extremely bizarre experience. It can take days, weeks, or even months to return to reality following the purchase of a long-awaited vehicle.
For one California man, the honeymoon period in his recently purchased Ford Mustang lasted less than the drive home. No, he did not crash. Instead, he watched police impound the car after they allegedly caught him driving at 139 mph (224 km/h) approximately an hour after he purchased it.
According to the California Highway Patrol’s Modesto district, investigators observed a newly purchased Ford Mustang GT pass a specially marked patrol vehicle at 139 mph on State Route 99. Unsurprisingly, that was enough to bring the ownership experience to an end nearly as quickly as it began.
According to the CHP, the driver was weaving around other motorists at high speeds when they were detected on radar. An enforcement stop soon followed, and instead of snapping celebration photos with his “new-to-him” Mustang, the driver spent the night in handcuffs.
Officers said the individual had only owned the car for roughly an hour before losing both his freedom and his newly purchased vehicle. The Mustang was promptly impounded.
Authorities highlighted that careless drivers like these people pose a significant threat to everyone else on the road, and they “will take all measures” to remove them from the route.
Let’s all be honest for a moment and express gratitude. We’ve all heard and seen instances considerably worse than this one, in which drivers crashed or worse on their way home from the dealership.
For sure, this kind of speed on a public road, especially in a Mustang, is like a cosmic call for something horrible to happen, but happily, no one was wounded.
On the plus side, the driver has a narrative that they will tell for years. Perhaps this might be the foundation for a future feature film police retribution movie titled “Gone in Sixty Minutes.”
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