By Steven Symes 
A BMW owner in Louisiana is fuming mad that a body shop allegedly took his car out joyriding and who knows what else. The man originally brought his vehicle in to get a bumper repainted, but got a whole lot more than he bargained for out of the ordeal.
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According to the BMW owner, the body shop logged 164 miles on his car while it was in the shop. That’s a lot of driving for doing repair work. When pressed, the owner of the shop admitted his 19-year-old grandson went joyriding in the vehicle.
Apparently, that grandson only recently started working at the shop after moving from his home in California to Louisiana, reports WAFB.
Furthermore, the owner of the body shop claims such a thing has never happened before, saying his grandson got away with the joyride because of an illness that kept his grandfather away from the shop.
But the guy who owns the BMW said he was a little nervous dropping his car off for good reason. He claims an employee was leaving the parking lot when he was arriving, laying down some serious rubber while goosing the truck he was in. The guy suspects that truck belongs to a customer.
The BMW owner contacted the owner of the shop, supplied photos of his odometer from when he dropped it off and another from when he picked it up, then demanded a refund.
But in a text exchange he shared with WAFB, the owner of the body shop claims the guy still owes money for the work performed, saying he’s willing to “forget it” but he won’t refund what has been paid already.
Then he goes on to say the joyride “is something i (sic) had no control over.”
Speaking with a reporter, the body shop owner claims the owner negotiated the cost of the repair work down, so he was already upset about that. Then he went off, saying the owner “wasn’t satisfied” about one thing or another the entire time, so apparently the customer was the problem, not his joyriding grandson.
Now the BMW owner plans on filing a police report. We’re not sure if that will even be taken seriously, but we think when shops do this sort of thing, there needs to be consequences.
Image via WAFB