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Valets Gone Wild: Who Pays?

You probably hand over your keys to the parking garage attendant without a thought.

But maybe you shouldn't.When a Cocoa, Fla., parking-lot owner was caught recently on camera joy riding in a customer's fire-engine-red 2012 Corvette convertible, the TV footage went viral.Reporters at WFTV-9 in Orlando, Fla., heard that valets at the cruise-ship parking lot had been having fun driving customers' vehicles. So the station set up a sting, sending a couple of "customers" to leave a rented 430-horsepower, $60,000 Corvette at the lot.The lot's owner and employees drove the car 61 miles down highways and dirt roads, unaware their joy riding was caught on camera. Video shows the lot's owner parking the 'Vette at Applebee's for dinner, using it to haul lumber from Ace Hardware, leaving it overnight at his home and even letting a small dog scrabble around on the car's exterior. Confronted by a reporter, though, the man denied he'd used the car.The lot appeared to have shut down soon after the inc...

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