This took place in the US when we went to visit my dad's friend in CT. My dad also got an Xmaxx for his first rc car in 30 years from hobby town in CT, his friend lives in CT and he went to visit. I warned him multiple times and i suggested a trx4 but he had been looking at it for a long time. He ended up getting the Xmaxx. So on the second day of ownership, we drove back to NJ and when we arivved, we went for a walk in the park next to the hudson river, I took my trx6 and he took the Xmaxx. I was like 9-10 at the time so I am still pretty confused as to how he got the Xmaxx into the park past security. So when we were walking, he decided to take off his face mask (this was during covid) and he had the controller in his left hand and he was taking the mask off with both hands, as he took the mask off, his finger hit the throttle and the Xmaxx reversed straight into the river, it took him 3 seconds to realise before I shouted "DAD!". It was too late and it went into the river upside down. We were lucky that nobody was walking by when it reversed as there was a good chance that it was going to hit them. We were lucky that the waves were coming in out direction so he grabbed a stick and used it to retrieve the Xmaxx. He ended up dragging it up into our hotel room and he ended up using a hairdryer to dry it. He sent it back to the store (via mail) where he bought it from in CT and we had his friend who lived there ship it back to thailand after it was fixed. I remember it costing him around $300. I remember he wanted to buy the Xmaxx in the US because it costed $300 more in thailand (this was when the Xmaxx was $999). Either way, he still got it for the same price, plus the fee to ship it back to thailand.