ANTHONY ROMO
In custody.
An angry driver intentionally drove his father’s minivan into a Central Park pond yesterday afternoon, sending picnickers and sun-worshippers fleeing in panic.
“F–k that car!” the driver — identified as Anthony Romo, 30, of Manhattan — told an eyewitness of the green Nissan Quest. “It’s my father’s car. He loves that car more than he loves me,” he said, echoing a line from the movie classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
He faces reckless-driving and reckless-endangerment charges.
Rodney Robertson, who was sitting on a blanket in the park with his wife and 9-year-old daughter, rushed to help Romo as the van sank in water near East Drive and 106th Street.
“He looked more despondent than disoriented,” said Scott Jefferson, a lifeguard who was at the nearby Lasker Pool when Romo gunned the car into the pond. “When the cops asked him, ‘Do you know where you are?’ he said, ‘I don’t care.’ ”
Romo was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
“I’m in shock about it,” said Robertson, 45. “I have to admit that this blew the day a bit.”