Another case of Parents gone wild. The dad is lucky that the young man didn't get hurt. Also the Chief of Police was very "delicate" when discussing this case on WDIV. No admonishments, non of the usual "this is not the correct method to handle the situation". I bet if this was at Belle Isle the tone and tenor of the story would have been different.

Car falls through ice on Pleasant Lake By Eric Czarnik
C & G Staff Writer
WEST BLOOMFIELD — A 2010 Dodge Charger took a spill in Pleasant Lake Jan. 3 after a man allegedly drove it onto thin ice and stranded it there until it sank.
The incident reportedly occurred in the 6400 block of Leytonstone Boulevard at around 1:20 a.m. A 16-year-old Farmington Hills boy reportedly drove the Charger to a beach area near Pleasant Lake with a 14-year-old West Bloomfield girl and parked there.
Police Lt. Carl Fuhs said the girl’s father allegedly drove his van up to the Charger while the two teens were reportedly in the back seat.
“He pulled his daughter out of the back seat, threw her in his van,” Fuhs said. “Then he jumped in the vehicle that was still running ... and drove out onto the ice and left it there, with the boy still in the backseat.”
After the Charger was on the ice, the father allegedly exited the car and drove off in his van, police said. The boy reportedly jumped into the front seat of the Charger and tried to get it off the ice, but the front left tire had already sunken into the ice by then — making it impossible to move the vehicle. The boy was reportedly still on the ice when police arrived.
No injuries occurred that night, and a tow truck was eventually able to remove the car from the lake. A witness’s photos revealed that the car was deep in the ice when it was removed. Police said the car belonged to the teen boy’s parents, had about 500 miles on it and had an estimated value of $33,000.
Police spoke to the girl’s father, a West Bloomfield resident. Fuhs said the man was not arrested at the time, but Fuhs added that the police could seek warrants through the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office. “The father finally admitted that [[he) lost control and drove the vehicle out on the ice,” Fuhs said.
A woman affiliated with the subdivision near Pleasant Lake said she was unsure whether any of the incident’s participants lived in the immediate area. “We are very relieved no one was hurt or worse,” she said.