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When you own an expensive car and pay a hefty amount to park it at a private garage, you expect any damage caused to the ride to be accounted for. That’s what Mark Rosen expected, at least.
Rosen is now suing City Parking LLC for an accident that happened at their garage on the bottom floor of the apartment building he lived at over the summer, in Tribeca, NYC. He handed the keys to his blue Ferrari 458 Spider to the parking attendant and, when he got the car back, the entire passenger side was messed up.
This was no minor damage, either, Rosen says in court documents obtained by Fox News. His $347,000 car had suffered damage estimated at $19,500, including a smashed mirror and a dented door. Adding insult to injury, neither the parking attendant nor his manager wanted to tell him anything about the circumstances around the accident.
“I have no idea what really happened,” Rosen says. “You’re driving a car five miles per hour in a garage, it’s almost impossible to do that unless you’re really, really careless.”
When he spoke to the manager, Rosen was warned that this was precisely the reason why they usually didn’t accept cars as expensive as his – almost as if it was his fault for choosing a Ferrari for a means of transportation. He was outraged, he says: surely, someone living in such a luxury building, in this area of the city, wouldn’t be driving around in a Chevrolet (his words, not ours)!?
Initially, City Parking agreed to pay for the damage to the Ferrari, though they never explained to the owner how it came to happen. Then, when they heard how high the bill was, they backed out – which is why he’s suing them.
Rosen says he paid $800 a month on the parking spot (plus over $3,000 on tips) while he lived there. Plus, he had to sell the Ferrari after the accident with a smaller price tag because of the damage: though it had only 7,000 miles on the odometer, a dealership only offered him $207,000 credit for it.
“The car was in mint condition [before],” he says. “They smashed the entire side passenger door, ruined the door, and the entire passenger side mirror had to be replaced. … Any of these cars get into an accident, the value goes through the floor. This never should have happened.”
In the words of the great Heisenberg:
This was no minor damage, either, Rosen says in court documents obtained by Fox News. His $347,000 car had suffered damage estimated at $19,500, including a smashed mirror and a dented door. Adding insult to injury, neither the parking attendant nor his manager wanted to tell him anything about the circumstances around the accident.
“I have no idea what really happened,” Rosen says. “You’re driving a car five miles per hour in a garage, it’s almost impossible to do that unless you’re really, really careless.”
When he spoke to the manager, Rosen was warned that this was precisely the reason why they usually didn’t accept cars as expensive as his – almost as if it was his fault for choosing a Ferrari for a means of transportation. He was outraged, he says: surely, someone living in such a luxury building, in this area of the city, wouldn’t be driving around in a Chevrolet (his words, not ours)!?
Initially, City Parking agreed to pay for the damage to the Ferrari, though they never explained to the owner how it came to happen. Then, when they heard how high the bill was, they backed out – which is why he’s suing them.
Rosen says he paid $800 a month on the parking spot (plus over $3,000 on tips) while he lived there. Plus, he had to sell the Ferrari after the accident with a smaller price tag because of the damage: though it had only 7,000 miles on the odometer, a dealership only offered him $207,000 credit for it.
“The car was in mint condition [before],” he says. “They smashed the entire side passenger door, ruined the door, and the entire passenger side mirror had to be replaced. … Any of these cars get into an accident, the value goes through the floor. This never should have happened.”
In the words of the great Heisenberg:
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