A reckless stunt caught on camera at the Jersey Shore is sparking criticism by local leaders and first responders after a pickup truck doing donuts on a frozen lake fell through the ice. <\/p>\n
“Stupidity at its finest,” Eagleswood Township Mayor Michael Pasternak said. “It’s not something you should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
In video from over the weekend and shared on social media, the pickup can be seen spinning in circles on the ice before it broke through and became stuck. <\/p>\n
First responders were called to the Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area on Sunday, Feb. 1 after someone spotted the truck in the ice and they didn’t know if anyone was inside. <\/p>\n
“It’s about more than you. You know, when you commit an act like this, when you do something like this, there’s a lot of other lives on the line,” Parkertown Volunteer Fire Company Captain Frank Runza, Jr. said. “It’s about more than you.”<\/p>\n
Members of three volunteer fire companies, including two water rescue teams, a dive team and EMS crews met at the lake and determined that the pickup was empty. <\/p>\n
“They’re responding to a call where there may be a victim and, until they’re told otherwise, they have to treat it that way,” Mayor Pasternak explained. <\/p>\n
Authorities said that a 44-year-old driver was not hurt and was able to get out of the vehicle on his own but never reported the incident. <\/p>\n
New Jersey State Police issued the man summonses for multiple motor vehicle offenses including reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. <\/p>\n
“It’s a perfect example of why driving and stepping on ice can be very dangerous,” Captain Runza said. <\/p>\n
As of Thursday, Feb. 5, it\u2019s unclear if there\u2019s a plan to get the truck out of the lake. <\/p>\n
NBC10 also found out that the driver doesn\u2019t have a valid license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reckless stunt caught on camera at the Jersey Shore is sparking criticism by local leaders and first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[915,49431,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-114128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-new-jersey","tag-ocean-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}