VALET GAVE $300,000 FERRARI TO WRONG MAN, SAYS LAWYER

The owner of a $ 300,000 Ferrari is suing Marriott International, saying a hotel valet gave his keys to a young man who was trying to impress a woman he just met. James “Skip” Fowler, a 73- year- old attorney, parked his yellow 458 Italia Spider outside the Vinoy Renaissance Resort & Golf Club last July 27 while attending a convention in St. Petersburg, Fla., according to the Tampa Bay Times. There the 2014 Ferrari remained for more than 12 hours, until Levi Miles, then 28, showed up, accompanied by a woman. Miles demanded the keys, telling the valet that the ticket was in the car and he’d bring it back. He never did. The couple sat in the car for “quite a while,” according to a St. Petersburg police report. Eventually, the valet said he stopped paying attention after he “figured he wasn’t getting a tip.” Miles drove off but was pulled over for driving without tail lights. Miles told several stories. Then he said he had just met his passenger, and she asked if the Ferrari was his. “Yeah, that’s my car,” he said he told her. “I was just trying to impress the girl,” he told officers.