Here’s a scene that has played out at some point in every primary school class across the world:
- A child does something obnoxious, dangerous, or just otherwise inexplicably dumb;
- After removing the coathanger from the power socket or whatever else, the flustered teacher demands to know why on earth the child did this thing;
- The child points at his neighbor, who is looking studiously out the window, and says, “He told me to”;
- The teacher sighs and says something like, “If he told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?”
There are children who stare sheepishly at their shoelaces at this point and mumble, “No.” And then there are the ones who grow up to purchase a Tesla Cybertruck.
You’d think that we’d be done with “person believes Elon Musk’s claims about the Cybertruck and makes an arse out of themselves trying to verify them” stories, but no, we’re not. Just this weekend, one such rube found himself in jail after deciding to test Elon Musk’s claim that the Cybertruck could be used as a boat: “[The] Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat,” tweeted the world’s foremost brain genius in 2022, “so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy.” (As an aside: what is Silicon Valley’s objection to the definite article?)
So, can the Cybertruck in fact be used as a boat? I mean, come on, look at the thing. Does it look like it floats? Does it have any visible means of propulsion through water? Has anything else that Musk has said about the vehicle been true?
Nevertheless, despite common sense, the car’s own manual suggests that driving one’s Incel Camino into a lake is a terrible idea, our hero did just that. And… oh, go on, you’ll never guess what happened next.
Yesterday, GPD and GFD were dispatched to Grapevine Lake, where a Tesla Cybertruck was stranded in the water. The driver drove into the lake to use the “Wade Mode” feature when the vehicle became disabled. The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested. pic.twitter.com/iPJMaLzOEX
— Grapevine Police (@GrapevinePolice) May 19, 2026
As well as the actual incident, the responses to the X post from Grapevine Police are also hilarious. Given that the majority of people who remain voluntarily on Twitter in 2026 fall somewhere on the spectrum between “14-year-old in libertarian phase” and “actual Nazi”, it’s no surprise that there has been widespread outrage—outrage, I say—at the fact that the dickhead driving the thing was arrested. “Why the fuck did you arrest him?” one brave defender of the little guy demanded to know. “[Wasn’t] totaling his Tesla enough punishment?”
“Its [sic] concerning you choose to broadcast the arrest of the driver,” concern-trolled another user. “People in emergencies will now think twice and put everyone in danger before contacting first responders.” And then there were the America-is-going-to-the-dogs types, like the gentleman who asked, “Can people have hobbies? Like trying wade mode in cyber truck? It’s not California or NY. Just don’t help him get out. Leave him there. Price of freedom. But to arrest is retarded.” It’s true, dear reader. The price of freedom is watching stupid people in stupid cars leave them in public bodies of water for someone else to deal with.
I’d point out that these people taking a brave stand against government tyranny are the same people who’ll argue that Renée Good deserved to be shot because she “did not comply”, or something, but what’s the point? With a bit of luck, they’ll all drive their Cybertrucks into a lake sooner or later.
