Have an old car you want to get rid of?

You can donate it for a tax break, or you can wave goodbye as it rolls into the lake, as a Leominster man did yesterday:

LEOMINSTER-- A man drove his Honda onto a boat ramp yesterday, got out of the car and waved goodbye after it rolled into Lake Whalom, according to police and a witness....

Mr. Angelopoulos was not making a lot of sense before the incident, Lt. Marino said.

Police were told he walked into the Captain's Lounge, which is across the street from the water, and said he wanted to use the phone to call Leominster Police, Lt. Marino said.

He said he wanted to check to see if it was OK to drive his car into the lake, but didn't end up making the call, Lt. Marino said. The man had not been drinking at the bar, he said.

A man who was fishing in the area said he saw Mr. Angelopoulos fooling around with the 1992 Honda Civic, getting in and out of the driver's side door, before he drove it to the boat ramp and it traveled into the water.

"He waved goodbye to it," said the fisherman, who didn't want to provide his name.

A woman asked the motorist, "Is that your car?" the fisherman said.

"It's my car and I can do what I want with it," Mr. Angelopoulos told her, according to the fisherman.

I suppose you can't argue with that.

(via the Worcester Telegram and Gazette).

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