Three naked teenagers skinny dip and then drive their car into canal
THREE Aussie teenagers who had been skinny dipping were found naked when their car ended in a canal.
The teens - two girls from Perth and the 18-year-old male driver from Donnybrook, south of Perth, - managed to scramble out of the submerged vehicle in a canal at Port Geographe, near Busselton, about 1am yesterday before a resident called police after hearing their distressed screams.
They told police they had been heading home naked to Donnybrook when they got lost and found themselves travelling towards the canal. The driver did not stop at the dead-end and the car careered through a vacant section, down a retaining wall and into the water.
"When police got there they found three naked teenagers on the front verge of a house and later found their car about 20ft underwater in the canal nearby,'' Acting Senior Sergeant Stuart Gerreyn told
PerthNow.
"It seems they had been drinking and having a bit of a party on the beach when they decided to go skinny-dipping.
"Whether they thought it was a bit of a laugh to drive home naked or what, we don't know?''
The driver, an 18-year-old man from Yabberup, will be charged by summons with driving with a blood alcohol reading in excess of 0.08.
Sen-Sgt Gerreyn said the four officers who responded to the call were "still scratching their heads about what was going on''.
"It's one of those things that happens occasionally that makes you raise your eyebrows and wonder what amuses people and what people find funny," he said.
"But the bottom line is they could have quite easily have been trapped in the car and we could have been recovering three dead bodies.''
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