Imagine you drop off your beloved Indy 500 replica Chevy Camaro at the dealership for a standard service. As you’re driving home, something catches your eye—a bright orange Camaro, just like yours, speeding past. You follow it and discover the shocking truth: a mechanic is joyriding in your car on a fast-food run. Let’s hope he doesn’t get ketchup on the leather!

This bizarre incident happened in Montebello, California. Mari Agredano-Quirino and her husband left their rare 2010 Camaro at Chevrolet of Montebello for service. Not long after, they spotted it tearing down the road. They followed the car straight to Tommy’s drive-thru in Pico Rivera.

Mari wasted no time. She pulled out her phone, hit record, and confronted the joyriding mechanic. “You’re telling me that you’re test-driving the car? No, why are you test-driving my car? You’re getting food from Tommy’s,” she said in the now-viral video.

The mechanic panicked. “You’re getting me nervous,” he stammered. And with that he tried to back out of the line. But Mari wasn’t having it. “You’re not supposed to be getting food when my car is supposed to be at the dealership,” she fired back before the clip ended.

The dealership responds to mechanic’s joyride

The dealership scrambled to respond after Mari posted the video on Facebook. Outraged comments poured in, and Chevrolet of Montebello owner Chris Teague addressed the incident in a public apology video. “That was absolutely not authorized by the customer,” he said. “And we absolutely do not condone it.”

Teague promised action, saying the joyriding mechanic would face the “fullest extent” of discipline. But Mari felt unsatisfied. “It was the most insincere apology,” she said. “It was more about how he was getting phone calls and messages and losing customers.”

Despite her frustration, Mari doesn’t want the mechanic fired. “Everyone makes mistakes,” she explained. “I definitely don’t want to see him fired.” Still, she wants dealerships to take these violations seriously. “This type of thing happens every day,” she said. “Just be aware of it.”

Was this an innocent pit stop during a test drive or an outright joyride? Either way, Mari’s trust in her dealership ended at the drive-thru window.