Imagine you’re on your way to a week-long cruise with your significant other. The two of you are looking forward to a careless seven days of freedom on the sea; and while you’re enjoying the festivities on and off the ship, you also hope for the same for your car — which you left at a private parking lot near the port from where your cruise ship is sailing. Only while you’re enjoying the sun, the food, and cheer, your car may be at the hands of a careless moron.
That’s what WFTV found out after an undercover investigation of a private lot near Port Canaveral, FL. that offers to watch your ride and drive you to the port in a limo. To prove the practice, WFTV proceeded to rent a Torch Red 2012 Corvette and install a GPS tracking device. The news outlet then sent a husband and wife in the car on their way to a “vacation”. Not six hours after leaving the Vette at the lot, Primer Parking Spot owner Jay Nieves got behind the wheel — and was off to the races.
The station captured Nieves and another employee joyriding in the car, peeling out in dirt roads (really?), cruising down Merritt Island, and parking at a local Applebee’s (classy!). The lot owner even tried to execute several tail slides and burnouts, parked the car at his home overnight, then drove it all over town running all kinds or errands; he even went to Ace Hardware and proceeded to load up the performance car with lumber. Nieves even let his dog walk all over the car; the spree came to an end when Nieves left the Vette in a parking lot near his own lot with the top down and the driver-side door open for more than 20 minutes.
When confronted, the business owner denied any and all involvement, saying “You’re completely wrong.” How the 61 miles added themselves to the odometer are still a mystery… but we’re left wondering if Nieves would even make an effort to clean and gas up the cars prior to the owners returning from their vacation.
Check the full video from WFTV right here.
The GM Authority Take
Let this be a lesson to all villainous car-sitters. Because journalists will go to great lengths to extort you for a story.
And did you notice how we went this entire time without making so much as a mention of Ferris Bueller?
Comments
I would think that would be theft, in one form or another. Make sure to do a follow up story of this, I’d like to see what happens to this scum bag.
Unsourced rumors (mostly from me googling ‘Jay Nieves’) said that the lot and the business are closed and Nieves is gone. Heard that owners returning from their cruise found their cars were sitting in the parking lot with their keys in the respective car doors.
Might be the last we hear of Mr. Nieves; publically naming and shaming him to a global audience will leave a scar on what remains of his reputation.
That’s just a no bueno.
It’s not unsourced rumor that the lot closed down. Look on the WFTV website for the latest video. The jerk abandoned the lot and left everyone’s keys in the doors of their cars, and with no way to get from the cruise terminal back to the lot.
Guys like that are the reason I don’t leave my car with ANYONE, not even for a day. If you have a tempting car and you don’t give a crap, then leave it anywhere. But for those of us who love our cars, I don’t know anyone who would leave them anywhere but in their own garage. I keep another car to leave at lots, or better yet, just get someone to drive me to the airport or cruise or whatever.
Ugh. I don’t know if I feel sick or anxious. Maybe it is both….. =/
Here is the scumbag,Jay’s phone numbers, 321-302-2970, 305-451-0551. Give him a call and tell how much of a scumbag he is.