Rogue repairs

A car owner was rather upset when his vehicle was returned from a garage after servicing. The man checked his dashboard camera only to find footage of the fast Ford Focus being taken out for a high speed drive by a mechanic from the garage. While emulating the stars of the Fast and the Furious films, the Ford Focus was fired ferociously along urban routes. In all the camera recorded seven hours-worth of footage of the mechanic working on the vehicle and using foul language while doing so, as well as driving
June 5, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
A car owner was rather upset when his vehicle was returned from a garage after servicing. The man checked his dashboard camera only to find footage of the fast Ford Focus being taken out for a high speed drive by a mechanic from the garage. While emulating the stars of the Fast and the Furious films, the Ford Focus was fired ferociously along urban routes. In all the camera recorded seven hours-worth of footage of the mechanic working on the vehicle and using foul language while doing so, as well as driving the car at excessive speeds. The camera was fitted to the car’s dashboard rather than being hidden, suggesting that the mechanic was perhaps not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The garage apologised and repaid the car owner for the work and also said that the mechanic, a temporary hire, had been fired for his Fast and Furious Ford Focus antics.

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