Conspiracy Theories Come to Life.

DO NOT, UNDER PENALTY OF NEAR DEATH, EVER RENT A CAR FROM ENTERPRISE ON 6TH STREET IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

You might ask why.  I'll get into that in just a moment.  Before I do, I want to apologize for the conspiracy theory, chain letter sounding blog this entry is about to turn into.  Unfortunately it's all true...

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may remember some depressed tweets about a girlfriend of mine from work being in a horrible car accident in West Virginia a few days ago.  A tire on their rental car blew out causing she and her friends to end up in a ditch, the car having rolled.  The air bags failed to deploy and paramedics had to cut the roof off the car in order to rescue my friend who was asleep in the back.  The result was 2 collapsed lungs, a shattered right arm and my friend being stuck in a hospital with no friends or family to take care of her via a 70 mile life flight to a hospital in Charleston, West Virginia.

Two other girls I work with took a drive to Charleston yesterday to let her know the hotel was thinking about her.  My girlfriend filled them in on some surprising things about their rental car.

First, as soon as the girls got into the car, they noticed the Check Tire Pressure light was on.  They went back in to question the clerk about it and was advised that the tires had recently been checked but the light was not reset by their mechanics.  The clerk assured them that everything with the tires was fine.

Keep in mind that the cause of the accident was a blown out tire.

Second, and the details on this one are sketchy at best, but appearently their rental had it's airbags removed by the rental company.  Your guess is as good as mine on the reason why... but yeah. 

The bottom line is they were given an unsafe rental car with its safety features removed so IF there WAS an accident... well the result of IF there WAS an accident was detailed above when I described what happened to my friend.

To tie this entry up, the rental car came from Enterprise Rent A Car on 6th Street in downtown Pittsburgh. 

Basically, I know they've lost my hotel's business and recommendations.  I know they've lost my personal business and recommendations and that of my manager and other employees.   Three guests just tonight came to us asking for rentals.

We sent them to Avis.