Want proof that people are morons? Here is part III

[Bazoukas]

some mechanic was boasting on a forum about joyriding in a car.  Well turns out the car's owner is a forum person too and the caught the guy who's now an EX-employee!!

  just click on the link right under "what should I do this is my car?"

Woman discovers what happens

 Here is the moron boasting about it in a public forum and even posted her number plate.
Moron

and here is what happened to the guy
Payback is a BITCH!

[ October 04, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

[pkd_lives]

Dammit the link to the payback is down.

I wanna know what they did. I hope the tech got it sideways.

[trc3]

Damn it I wanna know what happened!  My friend is a mechanic and does this shit all the time.

[Calum]

clicky linky!

 

quote:Joyriding Mechanic Busted via Internet (News)

By nstenz
Fri Sep 27th, 2002 at 04:07:54 PM EST
[News]

This week, a Ford service mechanic in San Antonio, TX posted a message admitting to something all car enthusiasts fear- taking a customer's car for a drive and treating it like it was his own personal race car. Unfortunately, this blatant disregard for other people's property happens a lot in today's world, but few offenders get caught. This one did, because he posted about it on the Internet.

 

In a September 20th post to the Mustang Message Board entitled "It Was Waaaaaaaaaay Cool", user stangman96 detailed his abuse (in all caps) of a customer's 2003 Ford Mustang Cobra convertible brought in for a lack of power and poor gas mileage:
... ME AND ANOTHER TECH TOOK IT OUT AND DROVE IT, DROVE HER HARD, 6 SPEED TRANNY, WE HIT 140 MPH REAL QUICK, TALK ABOUT POWER. Worse yet, the customer specifically asked the service writer1 to make sure her car was not treated this way:
OH YEAH, SHE EVEN TOLD THE SERVICE WRITER TO MAKE SURE THAT NO "PUNK" DRIVES HER CAR, WELL SINCE I AM THE MUSTANG SPECIALIST HERE AT THE DEALER, I GUESS I AM "THE PUNK", ALL THE MORE TO DRIVE HER '03 COBRA VERT AND SEE WHAT ITS GOT.. When several other users on the message board pointed out how wrong these actions were, many more stepped up in defense of stangman96, saying anyone in his position would do the same thing. The thread quickly degenerated into a flame war between those who would respect other's property above all else, and those who felt owners of fast cars "owed" them a test drive.

Unfortunately for stangman96, the owner of the Cobra ended up reading his message and realized it was her car he was talking about. Five days after stangman96's initial post, she posted this message on SVTPerformance, asking what she should do. Word quickly spread to other car enthusiast boards, and also to tech sites like AnandTech and [H]ard|OCP . People were even popping in from home improvement boards, where other users had posted links to the unfolding saga. Many loyal owners of competing car brands have put their support behind Tracy (the owner), and have promised to do whatever they can to make things right between her and the dealership.

The dealer, Northside Ford , fired the mechanic shortly after being informed of the problem. However, they have refused to offer Tracy any compensation for possible damage done to the internal components of her engine. The car was very new and supposedly not completely broken-in, so the effects of the abuse the car took may be more severe than if it had been broken-in properly. The refusal to even offer her an extended warranty is rather appalling.

The status of the other mechanic in the car at the time is unknown. He does not appear to have been fired.

Notes:
[1] - Person who writes up the work order request the mechanic follows to diagnose and fix the problem.

Full discussion: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/27/114221/261

[lazygamer]

Ok I try to tell myself I am not special, and that there are sooo many people in the world who are just as smart as me or much smarter. I try to tell myself that pride is bad, cuz someone eventually comes along and beats you at what you thought you rocked at.

But eventually the dam breaks down and I start to wonder, am I much smarter then the average person, am I smarter then like 65% of the human population? Can I brag to myself and be right, or is that just being an idiot? Can at least say im smarter then 35% of the human population?  

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by trc3:
Damn it I wanna know what happened!  My friend is a mechanic and does this shit all the time.

Tell him not to post on messageboards