Whoops! Valet Smashed Up A $400,000 Ferrari When He Confused The Gas Pedal For The Brake

Independent- A hapless garage attendant accidentally destroyed a £300,000 Ferrari when he crashed into a shop front after mistaking the brake for the accelerator. Roberto Cinti, 38, was supposed to be delivering the 2012 599 GTO to the Hotel Exedra where its owner was waiting after attending a Ferrari Owner’s Club meeting in Anzio, south of Rome. Unfortunately for Cinti, he became confused and pressed down on the car’s accelerator instead of the brake. According to the Corriere della Sera, the valet blamed the car’s semi-automatic transmission for the error. The 599 GTO is one of the most powerful cars ever produced by Ferrari as well as the manufacturer’s fastest road car, and can reach speeds of up to 200mph. Only three Ferrari’s have been designated GTO – the 599 is the only road car with the title – and just 599 of the latest model were made.

Let me tell you something. I don’t care how much fame and fortune the blog life brings me over the course of my life.  If it ever brings me enough money to buy a Ferrari (it won’t, recently paid off my Chevy Cobalt though so I stay winning) I’m never letting anyone drive it but me.  Not my Mom.  Not my best friend.  Not my gold digger wife who won’t ever exist.  Nobody.  And especially not some valet who doesn’t know left from right.  I might not even let my self drive it.  Just let it sit in the garage and look pretty.  How stupid are these people who willy nilly let valets take their keys and attempt to park their $400,000 cars?  That’s lunacy.  Park the $400,000 care yourself.  Every time.  If I’ve learned anything about valets from TV shows and movies there’s only a handful of things that can happen to your car.  It can get stolen by Nicolas Cage (Gone in 60 seconds).  You can be left with a BO stench that is impossible to get rid of no matter how hard you try (Seinfeld).  Or it’ll end up smashed to pieces by a stupid valet driver who mistakes the gas pedal for the brake pedal (this story here).  No good ever comes from valets*.

*if you don’t factor in the 99.9% of other times where everything works out just fine