08-07-2011, 11:19 AM
duh. asshat.
![[Image: alg_van-into-central-park-lake.jpg]](http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/08/07/alg_van-into-central-park-lake.jpg)
NY Daily News
Dad, where's your car?
Try: sinking fast in Central Park, where a driver with a few father issues steered a speeding minivan into the waters of the Harlem Meer yesterday afternoon, eyewitnesses said.
"He was just going straight," said Robert Evan Flores, 17, who watched in disbelief as the teal Nissan Quest plunged into the lake. "It looked like he meant to do it. He looked like he was crazy."
After fleeing the sinking vehicle, the sopping wet driver, Anthony Romo of the Bronx, was helped up to shore by rescuers who just minutes earlier had been enjoying a summer afternoon in the northeast corner of the park.
"He said, 'My father cares more about that van than he does about me,'" recounted witness John McBride. "Then he sat down. He didn't try to resist or run. ... It was insane."
Romo, 30, also mumbled something about his girlfriend before police, firefighters and EMTs reached the scene.
Romo was alone inside the vehicle as he sped down a pedestrian path toward the water. McBride, in the park with his pregnant wife, said they had just put a blanket down when the van appeared. "He blew right by us," said McBride. "And he blew right into the lake."
Romo bailed out of the car quickly as onlookers rushed to his aid. He was strapped to a body board by emergency medical workers and taken to St. Luke's Hospital, police said.
A man who identified himself as Romo's father said last night that he got into a fight with his son earlier in the day.
The dad said he called the cops after Romo's girlfriend and her father refused to leave his apartment. Romo drove off in the 1997 Nissan Quest about noon, and his father said he hadn't heard from his son since.
"He's actually a really wonderful person," the dad said.
just dumb as dirt.
NY Daily News
Dad, where's your car?
Try: sinking fast in Central Park, where a driver with a few father issues steered a speeding minivan into the waters of the Harlem Meer yesterday afternoon, eyewitnesses said.
"He was just going straight," said Robert Evan Flores, 17, who watched in disbelief as the teal Nissan Quest plunged into the lake. "It looked like he meant to do it. He looked like he was crazy."
After fleeing the sinking vehicle, the sopping wet driver, Anthony Romo of the Bronx, was helped up to shore by rescuers who just minutes earlier had been enjoying a summer afternoon in the northeast corner of the park.
"He said, 'My father cares more about that van than he does about me,'" recounted witness John McBride. "Then he sat down. He didn't try to resist or run. ... It was insane."
Romo, 30, also mumbled something about his girlfriend before police, firefighters and EMTs reached the scene.
Romo was alone inside the vehicle as he sped down a pedestrian path toward the water. McBride, in the park with his pregnant wife, said they had just put a blanket down when the van appeared. "He blew right by us," said McBride. "And he blew right into the lake."
Romo bailed out of the car quickly as onlookers rushed to his aid. He was strapped to a body board by emergency medical workers and taken to St. Luke's Hospital, police said.
A man who identified himself as Romo's father said last night that he got into a fight with his son earlier in the day.
The dad said he called the cops after Romo's girlfriend and her father refused to leave his apartment. Romo drove off in the 1997 Nissan Quest about noon, and his father said he hadn't heard from his son since.
"He's actually a really wonderful person," the dad said.
just dumb as dirt.