"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
05/16/2015 at 09:49 • Filed to: None
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"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
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After repairs, man says, car was also full of cigar and marijuana smells.
By Claire Osborn cosborn@statesman.com
ROUND ROCK — Tom Jennings still can’t believe what happened. He dropped off his 2011 Jeep Cherokee at an auto body shop in Round Rock in November to get the bumper repainted, he said. But when he arrived to pick it up, he opened the SUV’s door and was “overcome by the stench of cigar and marijuana smoke,” he said this week. Jennings, who does technology work for an Austin company, said he doesn’t smoke. A strange pair of men’s sunglasses and dental floss were also in the vehicle, he said. Jennings said he complained to the Maaco manager at 732 Round Rock Ave., who promised to fix the problems. But when he got back to his Northwest Austin home, his wife noticed something else: a dent in the vehicle and damage to an outside mirror, Jennings said. “It looked like the car had been in a collision,” he said. The next day brought an even bigger surprise. A detailer he had called to clean the car found a bag of cocaine stuffed in the back of the driver’s seat, Jennings said. It was pretty upsetting, he said. “I had picked my 5-year-old daughter up from school, and she was literally in reach of the cocaine,” Jennings said. “This was so soon after Halloween, and she had candy on her mind and that little white bag could have looked like sugar to her,” he said. Jennings filed suit against Maaco on April 27 after he said he couldn’t come to an agreement with its corporate offices. Round Rock police are investigating the case. Joe Tomberlin, the owner of the Maaco franchise, said Friday that he had not yet received the lawsuit so he could not comment about it. Round Rock police have received two other complaints from customers of that Maaco, including that a Honda Civic was used for a party with beer and cigarettes in August 2014 and that a Toyota Highlander was driven 150 miles with the gas tank left empty and items missing in December 2014. A former employee, Mike Anthony Rodriguez, was accused of stealing a customer’s Ford Mustang and another customer’s Mercedes-Benz in November 2014, according to arrest affidavits. Rodriguez was arrested in the Mercedes-Benz after a high-speed chase in Louisiana but posted bail in March and is at large, according to court records. Tomberlin said he knew Rodriguez had a criminal record when he hired him but wanted to give him a chance. “For several months, he seemed to be a model employee,” Tomberlin said. Contact Claire Osborn at 512-246-0040. Twitter: @cosbo4
Tom Jennings of Northwest Austin filed suit against Maaco. CLAIRE OSBORN / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
crowmolly
> Clown Shoe Pilot
05/16/2015 at 10:03 |
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Clown Shoe Pilot
05/16/2015 at 10:08 |
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fhrblig
> Clown Shoe Pilot
05/16/2015 at 10:10 |
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I’m sorry...
“This was so soon after Halloween, and she had candy on her mind and that little white bag could have looked like sugar to her,” he said.
When people say stupid shit like this it makes me crazy. If, as a kid, I saw a bag of what looked like sugar, my first thought would NEVER have been “LET’S EAT ALL THE SUGAR!!!” When have you ever seen a kid with a 5-pound bag of sugar and a spoon just goin’ to town on it?
All he had to say was “the bag was left back there and my kid could have gotten into it”, which is a totally valid concern.
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> fhrblig
05/16/2015 at 10:40 |
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> fhrblig
05/16/2015 at 10:47 |
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Although you may not have thought that, I can guarantee my son, the candy monster, would have. For a while, I thought my wife was using up all the sugar in the sugar bowl for her coffee (and leaving sugar all over the counter at the same time). She thought it was me. Then I caught the candy monster with the lid off the sugar bowl and a spoon full of sugar heading for his mouth. Culprit caught.
On the other hand, my daughter really doesn’t care for sweets that much.
Opposite Locksmith
> Clown Shoe Pilot
05/16/2015 at 10:54 |
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Dang, how do you forget that
Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
> Clown Shoe Pilot
05/16/2015 at 13:43 |
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The amount of, “Jennings said,” and, “he said,” is overbearing. Sum everything up that Jennings did state into a paragraph and call it good. Make news short and sweet, people.
itranthelasttimeiparkedit
> Clown Shoe Pilot
06/28/2015 at 18:14 |
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shit, this is the exact shop I was thinking about getting some cheap paint done at...