It was a moment straight out of the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
You know the one: when Ferris hands the keys to the vintage Ferrari belonging to Cameron's dad to a sketchy parking attendant, who takes it on a high-speed joyride the minute they turn their backs.
That's exactly what appears to have happened to a Chicago-area couple.
Drew and Christine Hovorka took their 2008 Dodge Caliber SRT to a dealership about 60 kilometres north of Chicago for its routine 100,000-mile maintenance checkup at the end of April. When they picked up their car, they paid $1,900, but employees did a lot more than just some routine work.
The Hovorkas had a camera mounted on the car's dash and, when they checked the recording, found the car speeding around town at almost twice the speed limit.
"I'm flabbergasted," Drew told CBS Chicago. "I can't believe he would drive a customer's car like that."
The eight-minute video shows the car hitting speeds of 155 km/h in an 80 km/h zone.
Drew told the Chicago Tribune he checked the recording after the service appointment just to see how employees drove the car after working on it. The Garmin camera automatically starts recording when the vehicle is started.
Local police said the technician refused to co-operate. Police were able to identify some people from the recording, but because the potential crime took place in another jurisdiction, the case was forwarded to a separate sheriff's office.
Not only does it appear the technician had some fun driving the car, but not much work may have been done on it. Drew said since he got the car back, oil is leaking, a bolt was unscrewed and clips under the hood are broken.
He said, "We paid almost $2,000 and had our car abused."
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