Pacific BMW Employee Ditches Work for Joyride, Posts Video to YouTube, Gets Fired

Working at a BMW dealership must be trying. The urge to slide behind the wheels of such fine specimens of German engineering has to be a daily temptation. And for one employee of Pacific BMW in Glendale, the seduction of a shiny new 1-Series M Coupe proved overwhelming.

YouTube footage of the weak employee and his accomplice - a male co-worker - exposes them speeding through residential neighborhoods in the dealership vehicle.

The video was posted on August 16 but has since been removed from the site. However, the footage has, of course, resurfaced on other websites including car enthusiast forums.

Both men were fired after the dealership learned of their joyride, according to KTLA. Forum readers called for the driver's termination, listing phone numbers of Pacific BMW management.

Management "immediately handled the situation with the parties involved," per a statement released by the dealership.

In the statement, dealership management specified that all current employees had been addressed in order to "reinforce our safe-driving procedures and standard driving rules."

City officials, as reported by City Spokesman Tom Lorenz, believe this is not the first time the ex-employee enjoyed such a cruise. An investigation is underway, and traffic investigators plan to identify the driver in the near future and may press reckless driving charges.