Poor Toyota...

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Turns out Toyota's recent recall problems are being felt just as harshly at local Toyota dealerships. A man in Louisiana, upon learning of the recent gas-pedalrecall, decided he did not want his Toyota truck anymore and attempted to get his local Toyota dealership to take it back and issue a refund. To nobody's surprise, the dealership refused, offering instead to repair the gas pedal and give him a loaner in the meantime. This offer was made multiple times, as the man seemed to not understand that the dealership could not simply take his truck back and refund his money.

What happened next is, in a word, priceless. Following the third refusal by the dealership to issue a refund, the gas pedal in the gentleman's truck astonishingly became stuck, resulting in the truck ramming into the dealership. The dealership building, fortunately, sustained only minor damage, though the truck is in significantly worse shape. While the official police report attributes the accident to a stuck gas pedal, this author suspects otherwise...