Even during my darkest days of working in the celebrity news trenches (a time in my life I’d like to forget), I still found myself occasionally starstruck, posing for poorly snapped cellphone photos with celebrities like Salma Hayek and Love Boat’s Jill Whelan. Thank heavens I wasn’t a bus driver for National Car Rental, or I’d have been suspended from my job.

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UPDATE: In the wake of national media coverage and Hart’s public plea, the driver has been reinstated.
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This is apparently what happened to one National shuttle bus driver at Los Angeles International Airport, who spotted comedian/actor Kevin Hart and got him to pose for a photo with her.

Earlier this week, TMZ reported that the driver had been suspended without pay for her actions, but last night Hart actually used to gossip site to make a public plea to National to let the driver keep her job.

“I’m asking National to please give this woman a pass,” Hart says in the brief video plea above. “I love National, and if I had seen me I would have taken a selfie with me too! C’mon, have some compassion.”

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