Kyle DeMattia drives to his favorite burger joint in New Jersey and looks for a parking space. The place is packed except for the two parking spaces outside the restaurant. However, he sees a new Corvette poorly parked in such a way that it has occupied two spots. Kyle decides not to give up easily and even thinks of how to make the situation appear funny. Without any hesitation, he parked his jeep right next to the Corvette by driving over the island and parking unevenly.
DeMattia said that he had been on an off the road trip and had to endure a two hour traffic before he arrived at the restaurant. After parking his Jeep, he went inside the Red Robin restaurant and chose a spot by the window for his meal. DeMattia thought about filming the Corvette driver's reaction and the spot by the window is a good place to capture everything.
"The parking lot was packed except for a few spaces at the back and I could see people parking and walking by it in just plain annoyance," said DeMattia. "I just did enough to make him think some kid in a Jeep came and messed with his mid-life crisis mobile.
The video, which caught the Corvette driver's reaction, has earned more than 1 million views on YouTube.
The driver of the 2014 Corvette is identified as Robert Mandel. His car is so new that it had temporary tags. Naturally, he was not amused with the way DeMattia has parked his Jeep in a way that looks like it mocks his bad, diagonal parking job. He could also be annoyed by the fact that there is a mud-covered jeep parked next to his new car and it didn't look appealing enough because of its black sheriff's star on the doors and the words "Zombie Response Vehicle" stenciled along the hood.
In the video, Mandel seemed to be inspecting his prized car before he finally opens the driver side door and hops in. Two people who were walking by laughed at the scene on how the Jeep tried to mess up with the Corvette.
"I'll go to the next town to stay away from the lunatics," said Mandel to WABC.
After Mandel left with his brand new Corvette, DeMattia said that he immediately moved his Jeep and parked it just the way how every vehicle should be parked in a parking lot with well-defined parking spaces.
"I was like, come on man, are you serious, three spots from the door," said DeMattia to WABC. "So we pulled up, jumped out, we got people walking by laughing, having a good time."
