Locals with ride-on mowers attempt to haul the stuck vehicle out of the boggy sand.
"When will they learn?"
That's what Ōmokoroa resident of 14 years Sheryl had to say about a fisherman whose car was being slowly swamped by the incoming tide on Ōmokoroa Beach on Friday morning.
The water was up to the windows by the time the car was hauled out bya tractor, she said.
Locals, with mowers, and firefighters had earlier not been able to get the dark-coloured SUV to budge from the soft, muddy beach, even with the SUV being revved.
"The water is well over the floorboards now," she said at 10am.
