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TV sting targets Florida lot where cruisers park
By Gene Sloan, USA TODAY
Is it safe to leave your car at a port-side parking lot while you take a cruise? A sting by Orlando's WFTV that targeted a parking lot near Florida's Port Canaveral is raising the issue.
After receiving a tip that the owner of Premier Parking Spot in Cocoa, Fla., was using customers' cars while they were away, WFTV left a flashy new convertible Corvette at the lot to see what would happen. Six hours later, a GPS tracking device the station had attached to the car showed it was in motion, and a WFTV helicopter caught what the station says is video of the lot's owner and another employee joyriding in the car.
WFTV says the lot owner used the car to peel out on dirt roads, took it to an Applebee's restaurant and parked it overnight at his house. On another day, he used it to run errands, including a stop at an Ace Hardware, and he loaded it with lumber at his home and allowed a dog in it, the station says.
When confronted by a WFTV reporter, the owner denied he'd ever taken a customer's car for a joyride while he thought they were away on a cruise, the station says.
Port Canaveral is a home port for Disney Cruise Line's Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy; Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Sensation and Carnival Ecstasy; and Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas and Freedom of the Seas