Lot Attendant Hates My Mustang (Dashcam video)

[Blk2015GT]

If the guy knew the camera was on and recording, and he was saying all this to the camera, then it's a little disturbing because he would know someone would see the recording. He's obviously not concerned about spewing off as he did if he knew the camera was on.

I suspect knew or didn't he has some mental illness by the level of anger and randomly going off of random things.

But again it's really irrelevant. Nothing happened to to the car as he seemed to treat it right. That's what should matter in this and OP is fine as he states

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[GT Pony]

Id MUCH rather, 1000 times over, have someone cursing up a storm inside my car than other dealership horror stories/videos of abusing the cars.

If the video camera caught the guy severely abusing the car, what would you do then? Since you say the recording is illegal, would you just forget about it?

 

[GPhilly04]

Thanks man! I love the tune, totally woke up the car!

And to the person that keeps saying the recording was done illegally, the camera is hanging below the mirror (can't get the suction cup to stick on the blacked out "Ford" part of the windshield), and the camera makes noises and the screen lights up and shows it's recording on each start-up. It makes it's presence known. This combined with the fact that the guy was addressing me when talking is why I don't feel that the recording was wrongly obtained. If you're talking directly to a camera then you're obviously consenting to being recorded. Also, I don't want the guy to get fired, what he did was harmless and I just thought it was amusing. Don't plan to use this video against him in any way.

The term "buddy" is about as generic as it gets. That doesn't mean he was addressing you personally. Ever had your computer freeze up and said something along the lines of "you piece of junk". By saying "you", you're not referring to the manufacturer of the computer nor the hands that assembled it. Ever addressed a group of people as "you guys", despite there being one or more females there? These are generic terms and I believe "buddy" was used the same way in this video.

I don't believe the guy was directly talking to you.

 

[1320']

Considering he noticed the camera and then started using "buddy"...yeah I'd say he was addressing the owner.

The instant he saw the camera he should have shut up, not gone off harder and got more disrespectful, he deserves to lose his job.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

[GPhilly04]

Considering he noticed the camera and then started using "buddy"...yeah I'd say he was addressing the owner.

The instant he saw the camera he should have shut up, not gone off harder and got more disrespectful, he deserves to lose his job.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

You were in the car? You can confirm that he in fact knew what he was looking at was a camera and that he was addressing the owner of the vehicle?

 

[Blk2015GT]

If the video camera caught the guy severely abusing the car, what would you do then? Since you say the recording is illegal, would you just forget about it?

You do understand the difference between what can or can't be used in court, and between 2 people and employer/employee right?

I never said they couldn't fire him based on the video, just that they probably shouldn't in this particular case with just language and rambling crazy thoughts. most states are at will employment meaning there doesnt have to even be a reason to fire someone even if it's your boss doesnt like you anymore; that's enough.

That's not to say a saavy worker couldn't try to sue the car owner for illegally recording, but that has nothing to do with the dealership/employer issue. The dispute would between person recording and person recorded. But this guy clearly isn't in his right mind to even consider that tactic; just a general interjection playing with the idea

2 totally different issues though.

 

[GT Pony]

^^^ I'm talking about if the guy would have totally abused the car, what would your thoughts be on using the video as evidence? I agree he didn't harm the car so no foul - let it slide.

But what IF he (any anyone for that matter at a dealership) did do something that you needed the video evidence to prove? You think the dealer is going to tell the owner to go pound sand because the video was "illegal"? Of if it ended up going to court the judge and lawyers would say forget about it, you had an illegal recording?

 

[Blk2015GT]

^^^ I'm talking about if the guy would have totally abused the car, what would your thoughts be on using the video as evidence? I agree he didn't harm the car so no foul - let it slide.

But what IF he (any anyone for that matter at a dealership) did do something that you needed the video evidence to prove? You think the dealer is going to tell the owner to go pound sand because the video was "illegal"? Of if it ended up going to court the judge and lawyers would say forget about it, you had an illegal recording?

But you wouldn't need the audio to show damage so....it wouldn't need to be excluded.

Say this very video there was no audio and he ran into another car parked. The cam facing the road could be used to show the abuse/damage, why not? Nothing to do with the driver's privacy issue and the dealership knows what tech/porter drove the car. A court could certainly allow the video admissible of the damage but exclude playing the audio from inside the car in one of the 1 party states.

The cam can't see the sides of the car so if someone scratched the door lets say when it was parked with no one in it you wouldnt see or hear anything anyway. Dash cams have their imitations to forward and backward facing.

Realize the law is WAY WAY WAY behind technology.

 

[Bullitt]

The term "buddy" is about as generic as it gets. That doesn't mean he was addressing you personally. Ever had your computer freeze up and said something along the lines of "you piece of junk". By saying "you", you're not referring to the manufacturer of the computer nor the hands that assembled it. Ever addressed a group of people as "you guys", despite there being one or more females there? These are generic terms and I believe "buddy" was used the same way in this video.

I don't believe the guy was directly talking to you.

Even if you dismiss the buddy comment, at the end he still said "you got some junk". Who else would have junk in this situation other than me? The car doesn't have junk, and there's nobody else around. Saying "you got some junk" can only be referring to me. Again, not that I care at all, but I think it's a stretch to say he's not talking to me (via the camera).

 

[Blk2015GT]

Even if you dismiss the buddy comment, at the end he still said "you got some junk". Who else would have junk in this situation other than me? The car doesn't have junk, and there's nobody else around. Saying "you got some junk" can only be referring to me. Again, not that I care at all, but I think it's a stretch to say he's not talking to me (via the camera).

I think analyzing the ramblings of a likely mentally ill person will yield no result truthfully. I walked past many a homeless person in a downtown area who are clearly mentally ill pretending to talk to an imaginary person said you this and you that.

 

[1320']

Even if you dismiss the buddy comment, at the end he still said "you got some junk". Who else would have junk in this situation other than me? The car doesn't have junk, and there's nobody else around. Saying "you got some junk" can only be referring to me. Again, not that I care at all, but I think it's a stretch to say he's not talking to me (via the camera).

Anyone with common sense that isn't looking for loopholes knows he was talking to you.

 

[347CobraII]

Ok no one in this world is perfect and never will be. It's truly sad to see people who think they are but in reality they're not. Guy did nothing wrong and did samething as everyone else HAS done also

 

[ForTehNguyen]

someone made fun of my car, oh no fire them!

 

[Bullitt]

I think analyzing the ramblings of a likely mentally ill person will yield no result truthfully. I walked past many a homeless person in a downtown area who are clearly mentally ill pretending to talk to an imaginary person said you this and you that.

Excuse my ignorance but is it even legal for people this mentally ill to have a license? If we're going to rely on this defense that he's so mentally ill that he's rambling insults uncontrollably then why is he driving customers cars?

 

[Surtur]

Excuse my ignorance but is it even legal for people this mentally ill to have a license? If we're going to rely on this defense that he's so mentally ill that he's rambling insults uncontrollably then why is he driving customers cars?

Pretty sure in Florida you can be a legally blind paraplegic with every mental illness ever who admits to drunk driving and texting while driving and you could get a license. At least from what kind of drivers I've seen here.

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