Auto shop owner crashes customer's Porsche during "test drive"

He hit speeds as high as 164 mph and flipped the car on a road shoulder, doing $50,000 in damage to the 2008 Porsche Boxster. Repair charges are on the house, I'd guess. (Naples Daily News)

Comments

[Albert911emt]

Repair charges on the house? The hell with that...the idiot would be buying me a brand new car, or I'd own his business. Repairs wouldn't come close to restoring the car's lost value.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

I don't know about Kasten, but he'll sure be reelin' in all kinds of hell.

[MidtownCoog]

$50K damage on a maybe $55K car?

Sounds totaled to me.

[kestrelmas]

"Kasten was charged with willful and wreckless driving and leaving the scene of a crash."

Oh, it was a wreck all right... I think the word they were looking for was reckless. :)

[johnjohn]

Kestrelmas - I wonder if it was the police who wrote that way in the report and the paper just regurgitated it, forgetting to ad a (sic) next to the misspelling or what, however, good eye and it was even italicized.

Also, check out the related stories beneath, a real week of the Fast & Furious.

[Torgo]

AWESOME!!

[KDP]

I'd like to know how cheap you have to be to take a high-strung German car to a SHELL station for service?

I'm thinking of the service station scene from "The Jerk".

[kestrelmas]

It's a hell of an amusing typo though! :D

Thanks johnjohn! And I'll have to check those stories out... yikes...

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

He hates these cans!

[Somebody]

No kidding, KDP. At first I thought it was a dealership that was involved, but no, it was a SHELL station?! And the owner was aware the car would be taken to someone else's house for "diagnostics"? Sure dealer's charge too much, but c'mon.

[Krash]

I'm with Albert and KDP on this one.

A shame after 4 yrs. of higher education,
they still ignore spell-check; and after
3 levels of proofing still fails to catch "Wreckless".

[American Veteran]

Well, I guess i won't be taking my XJS there.

[Lambiepie]

is the shell station near route 60 hyundae and sucking?

[Charles]

How about reckless driving charges for the repair guy? Speeding?

[LimeGreenLizard]

Damn fortune! I left my Bentley there, just this morning. Before my private jet flight to Brussels. They say it needs a new radiator. Oh, how I hope they don't crash it, whilst performing trial tests their repair work. Better check in on the fine propietor on my Super Blackberry. Hold on...

No, he says everything is fine and it was a spoof story. Whatever that is.

Dude, know your mechanic! Get effing references, like I'm having to do! And I drive a piece of crap! Well, more a beat up pick up. Mechanically sound and maintained, body like the drunk stroller chick. Why a man would drive a purty truck is beyond me.

[Krash]

@ LGL:

"He's got a purty mouth."

[The Hermit]

Hold my beer while I test drive this sucker, will ya?

[learn kitesurf]

youch thats crazy! bit of a repair job there!

[jdmabby]

50k on repairs, outch... We'll know he know's what not to do in his own car.

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