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Little Red "Corvette" Pix Cost Car Lover His Job

Police have declared "case closed" for a Detroit-area cargo worker cum paparazzo whose love for cars apparently cost him his freight company job. The unnamed man was fired after posting 23 photographs online of a prototype version of what is believed to be a 680-horsepower Chevrolet Corvette SS. He also briefly drove the bright red […]

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Police have declared "case closed" for a Detroit-area cargo worker cum paparazzo whose love for cars apparently cost him his freight company job. The unnamed man was fired

after posting 23 photographs online of a prototype version of what is believed to be a 680-horsepower Chevrolet Corvette SS. He also briefly drove the bright red car, which General Motors valued at $1 million, around the freight company's parking lot before it was shipped to Germany, according to a police report on the incident.

Chevrolet, acknowledging that the buzz was probably a win for GM, won't file suit over the illicit photo shoot / joyride. "It's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem," said a GM rep. "There's a voracious appetite for anything about the Corvette."

[Source: The New York Times]