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...for a short time, anyway...
Test drive turns into wild ride
JOHN BURMAN
THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR
(Oct 16, 2008)
The test drive from hell started when a man admiring a $47,000-plus Hyundai Genesis suddenly grabbed the keys and dove behind the wheel.
What followed was a wild ride up and down Parkdale Avenue North Tuesday afternoon that ended with an arrest in Brantford.
Hamilton police say a man walked into Hamilton Hyundai around 2:30 p.m. and took the top-of-the-line Genesis sedan shortly afterward.
"He was walking around in the showroom and asked for the keys to one," sales manager Sean Wilson said yesterday.
"There was something about him," said Wilson, who's learned a lot about human nature in his 11 years in car sales. "I figured I would walk around with him."
The man went over to the Genesis parked outside, asked a few questions and asked Wilson to unlock it. Then he said he wanted to hear it run and snatched the keys from the salesman's hand, jumped behind the wheel and started it up.
"I hopped in the back and next thing he's doing 100 km/h up Parkdale, telling me to get out."
When Wilson refused to get out the first time the man stopped the car, he drove the wrong way at high speed up one side of Parkdale against oncoming traffic.
The Genesis, Wilson said, "has 290 horses and he used all of them."
"He stopped again and yelled, 'Do you want to get out now?'
"So, I said OK and got out."
Read the whole story here...
Test drive turns into wild ride
JOHN BURMAN
THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR
(Oct 16, 2008)
The test drive from hell started when a man admiring a $47,000-plus Hyundai Genesis suddenly grabbed the keys and dove behind the wheel.
What followed was a wild ride up and down Parkdale Avenue North Tuesday afternoon that ended with an arrest in Brantford.
Hamilton police say a man walked into Hamilton Hyundai around 2:30 p.m. and took the top-of-the-line Genesis sedan shortly afterward.
"He was walking around in the showroom and asked for the keys to one," sales manager Sean Wilson said yesterday.
"There was something about him," said Wilson, who's learned a lot about human nature in his 11 years in car sales. "I figured I would walk around with him."
The man went over to the Genesis parked outside, asked a few questions and asked Wilson to unlock it. Then he said he wanted to hear it run and snatched the keys from the salesman's hand, jumped behind the wheel and started it up.
"I hopped in the back and next thing he's doing 100 km/h up Parkdale, telling me to get out."
When Wilson refused to get out the first time the man stopped the car, he drove the wrong way at high speed up one side of Parkdale against oncoming traffic.
The Genesis, Wilson said, "has 290 horses and he used all of them."
"He stopped again and yelled, 'Do you want to get out now?'
"So, I said OK and got out."
Read the whole story here...
