A wild video shows the moment a pickup truck plowed into the ocean at a Florida beach that was closed to traffic — with the clueless driver later trying to justify his antics by telling deputies that it was not his fault “the truck don’t surf.”
At the time of his arrest Tuesday, Jason Brzuszkiewicz, 49, also bizarrely claimed that he thought he was in England — and asked a deputy, “Are we not in Kansas anymore?”
Brzuszkiewicz was busted in New Smyrna Beach around 9 a.m., after the Volusia County Sheriff’s office said he drove around a closed gate with a “Do Not Enter” sign without paying a toll fee, and proceeded onto the beach, which was off limits to cars at that time because the tide was too high.
Footage recorded by a bystander and shared by the sheriff’s office on Facebook shows Brzuszkiewicz’s vehicle driving into the frothing surf, with waves repeatedly smashing into the driver’s side.
At one point, the driver is seen attempting to do a donut, before bringing the vehicle to a stop facing the horizon.
As a trio of emergency vehicles race to the scene, Brzuszkiewicz briefly opens the driver’s side door, before closing it again and trying to back his truck out of the water.
Once he was back on dry land, Brzuszkiewicz was questioned by deputies about his dangerous stunt, as seen in a body camera video released by the sheriff’s office.
“It’s not my fault the truck don’t surf!” he cried out.
A deputy pointed out that he should not have been driving on the beach while the gates were closed, for which Brzuszkiewicz had a bizarre comeback.
“I thought I was in England,” he said with a grin.
“You thought you were in England? You’re not in England,” the deputy said.
“Are we not in Kansas anymore?” Brzuszkiewicz inquired, apparently channeling Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”
“No,” the deputy shot back.
Brzuszkiewicz, dressed in a black Harley Davidson shirt, could be seen laughing it up, before asking the deputy if he could get in trouble for his beach excursion.
“Yeah, yeah,” the deputy said. “Jail time if need be.”
Brzuszkiewicz was ultimately arrested on a misdemeanor charge of failing to pay the access fee.
He was booked into the county jail, photographed for a mugshot showing him with a smile on his face, and ordered held on $200 bond. His waterlogged truck was towed from the beach, officials said.