Zak wrote:Hertz: rent a car, go to jail.
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Last time I rented from them in the US, I woke up on my last morning there to find that three tyres had been slashed overnight. (Motel 6... yeah.) I called Hertz, who wanted to send a tow truck. Told them my flight was leaving in three hours and I didn't have time for that. "Leave the keys under the mat in the driver's side footwell, get a cab, have a nice flight."
A week later, back in Finland, I had a bad feeling about that. I called them up to make sure they had the car back, and it was chaos. They had absolutely no idea where that brand new Mustang convertible was.
It took a further week of me calling them every day before they finally found it, still sitting in their local tow company's lot. Fully expecting to rock up at US immigration next time and have my face ground into the carpet at multiple gunpoints, I made them email me confirmation that they had found the car and we were cool. You bet your ass I had that printed out and tucked into my passport when I went back to the US.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.