Hoyt and Kevin are out joy riding on a Saturday morning near Salisbury, North Carolina. Hoyt, 20, has no driver’s license but he never gives that little detail a thought. His passenger, Kevin, 17, is a friend with an intellect equal to that of Hoyt.

Suddenly, Hoyt notices a blue light flashing in his rearview mirror. He’s driving nearly 70 m.p.h. in a 45 mile zone. Instead of pulling over, Hoyt speeds up and tries to outrun the cop, according to the Associated Press.

Hoyt is doing just fine until he fails to complete a curve and slams into a roadside oak tree. The guys are shaken up, but not injured. Realizing that the police are only minutes behind them, they bail out of the car and run into a nearby wooded area.

At a clearing on the other side of the woods the guys are looking across a muddy lake bed. They decide to head across the lake. "The cops’ll never try to follow us out here in this mud," says Hoyt.

Running through the mud is difficult, but they’re young and they make it about 500 yards into the lake bed before they become exhausted and are unable to continue any further.

It’s January and the temperature is 34 degrees fahrenheit and dropping. Hoyt is wearing boxer shorts and a tee shirt. Kevin has on only a pair of briefs with no top. Why the guys are dressed like that, we may never know.

Luck for these two nut cases, police do follow them. Had they not, the guys would have frozen to death stuck in all that mud.

Hoyt is charged with driving with a revoked license and eluding police. Kevin, only a passenger, is not charged. Both are briefly hospitalized for treatment of hypothermia.

When a police sergeant asks Hoyt why he and Kevin are dressed only in underwear, Hoyt replies, "Heck, man, it was nice and warm in the car."