There is a famous saying from South Park’s “Mmmmkay” character Mr. Mackey. That saying is “There’s a time and a place for everything…and it’s called college.” Indeed, college as portrayed by the American cinema would have you believe it is just one big party all day, every day. And in some regards it is. College is also a place to experiment and make some mistakes. Some people will make small mistakes, like drinking questionable concoction of vodka and hot sauce.

Other people will make much bigger mistakes, like driving a Mustang into a duck pond. The Watauga Democrat reports that a Mustang filled with four college kids between the ages of 18 and 19 went off the road and into a duck pond. Everybody was OK…everybody but the Mustang.

Now doubt the comments section will devolve into an argument about the wisdom of giving a teenager access to a high-horsepower, rear-wheel drive car like a Mustang. From the sounds of it though, the kid could have been driving anything in such an accident. The car took about 30 seconds to sink, and police estimate the driver was going between 35 and 40 mph in a 20 mph zone. In cold weather on a wet road, that was an accident waiting to happen. This story is almost as silly as the woman who got stuck on the roof of her Mustang after driving into a flooded road.

Hopefully the young driver has learned a lesson about speed. And hopefully mom and pops won’t reward his stupidity with another Mustang.