Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Valets practice their victory-lane burnouts ... with your car

You expect NASCAR drivers to pull a burnout when winning the race. You don't expect valets to do it in an underground parking garage with someone else's car.

Fox2Now in St. Louis (via Jalopnik) brings us the gut-wrenching story of a bunch of St. Louis valets at the downtown Hyatt Hotel performing burnouts, skids, spins and other maneuvers with guests' vehicles, obviously without their knowledge. The valets taped their exploits, posted them on YouTube under the name "valet underground," and presto -- instant Internet notoriety. Here, see for yourself:

The videos are more than six months old; it's unclear why the news station is just now reporting on them. Regardless, the Hyatt indicated that it had fired the valet company which counted the "valet underground" guys on its payroll before even knowing about the video.

There are no reports that any of the cars were seriously damaged during the joyriding, which is good news. But really, people ... trust nobody with your fine automobiles. Did we learn nothing at all from Ferris Bueller?

YouTube Video shows valets abusing hotel guests' cars [Fox2Now]
St. Louis valets abuse hotel guests' cars, post videos to YouTube [Jalopnik]

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