AHhahahahahhaahh! I love this! This sounds like it would be me! At least you were keeping your MINI safe!

I haven't gotten a ticket yet... *knock on wood*, but I've only had my license for 9 months now... and my MINI for 5 weeks (today).

 

Yup... Don't come to Ohio! I got pulled over after 6 days of ownership, doing 54 around a turn in a 35. No ticket. Before that I had been driving for a year in a Dodge Dakota pickup truck... I sped all of the time, but NEVER got pulled over. Get a shiney new car, WAM!

-Cody

 

A.K.A. the "Homer Simpson" manuever

 

Well, I thought I was bad at eight days and thank God I had slowed down prior to rounding the curve, (92/65) everyone speeds on Hwy. 15. That one would have paid for the radar detector that I now have.

By the way, the best (read cheep and easy) traffic school I have found is:

http://www.gototrafficschool.com/

Just in case anyone needs it

Earl

 

no tickets, fingers crossed... doubtful but still crossed.

 

Not so many twisties in AZ close to PHX.... I did a driving safety class and the ticket was wiped from my record. The Fireballed(r) Twincharge sure is fun! It get's ya going much quicker to a speed than you think it can. But, I'm not using the kit as an excuse. I knew I was in store for a ticket, as my Mom and Dad in the back seat kept pointing out for mile after mile on that freeway. Sure enough, they were right!

 

MINIs aren't "speedy", MINI drivers can be.
MINIs are fun to drive and speed limits are intentionally restrictive on most roads for reasons of safety or fuel economy.

Common places to get tickets-
On roads that you don't know well.
In areas that have speed traps

Common times to get tickets-
When the MINI is new to you.
When you are distracted and don't have your mind on your driving.
When you are just leaving or coming home from a commute.
At that time of month then the police need to meet their quota of tickets.

After 40 plus months and 30,000 miles in my MINI I have no tickets, speeding warnings, or parking tickets. My kids don't believe me.
How dull.

 

Don't you hate when people turn a topic completely around?
4-years, 114,326-miles & No Tickets (knocking on every wood surface I can find)!

T

 

How narrow we're the spaces? I didn't think I could get a MINI to take up three

C'mon where's the people my MA warned me about... you know the ones who got a ticket exiting the dealer, first 24 hours, less than 100 miles?

 

A month ago I got pulled over for taking a u-turn too fast. Only in a MINI could that be possible. Got off with a warning though, seemed he was mainly just checking to make sure I wasn't drunk (it was like 2 am).

 

Frankly, I'm completely shocked more people don't get tickets on MINI test drives!!!! That's when things get really crazy!!! If I was a cop and I had a quota, I'd stake out the test drive route for the nearest MINI dealer! I wonder if dealerships make "contributions" to certain police charities?

 

Funny you should mention this, no I didn't get a ticket on my test drive, but my MA did warn me about certain parts of the test route where cops were known to be lurking. [location: in and around Mini of Mountain View, CA, USA]

 

YOu have no idea how close I came to fullfilling that. Swing around what was probably the 2nd corner I'd ever taken in a MINI and there was the squad car radar rung sticking out the window, hit the brand new brakes with ample force (yes just testing out the ABS) and just slipped through nice and quitely. 25 on the odo.

 

No tickets in the MINI, 22,500 on the clock. I have not had a ticket in the last 140k miles. Last ticket in '98 50 in a 35 was thrown out, and the one before that, 1991, was in WV on route 19, 92 in a 65, $66 fine.

Steve

 

224 miles on the Odo. 67 in a 55 in Jewett, Tx. I was within sight of the 70 mph sign when I got pulled.

 

Since I bought used, I'm out of contention.
But within the first month I got popped by the plain wrapper patrol car for [I better not]. Had to attend "Defensive" driver class. The next weekend I took a high performance driving class.

 

Can't believe I just came upon this thread.

22 days of ownership and I get a ticket. I decided to drive that day too. It's my wifes car.
Cop says 68 in a 55. I won't go into the long circumstances but I will be taking it to the judge. I was going 53 approaching a red light on a four lane highway. Was not pulled over till the light turned green 1/2 mile away from the light I was stopped at. Saw cop pull behind us at the red light without his lights on. Says I was speeding before the red light on his radar.

$68 bucks..I guess that $1 per mph over. <grin>

Whatever....

 

1700 miles on the odo and I was clocked at 63mph in a 40mph zone!!

I thought that the officer would cut me some slack, since it was 1:00 in the morning and I was just about the only car in Bear Mountain park....Tough luck...I needed that ticket to learn some common sense!!!!

Looks like atleast $700 with NY's insane laws.......

 

I got a $35 parking ticket so far... that is all I want.. even thought I do speed.. had enough speeding tickets in my old turbo miata...

 

$324.00 nuff said :impatient

 

Keep parking like that and I wouldn't be suprised if somebody DID key your car! As someone who's 84 year old Mum uses a Handicapped Placard, it just torques my bolts to see a handicapped spot (LET ALONE TWO !!) be taken by an able bodied person. If you're so paranoid about getting a ding or scratch, then park in a less populated spot.
Jim

 

I speed a lot but 18,000 miles without a ticket. I don't speed on my commute. I drive fast with a radar detector and try to pick my spots. A few near misses. I normally brake hard when I get a bleep when I'm driving fast . . . needless to say no one is tailgating me at such times. There was one drunk driving checkpoint where, thankfully, I'd admitting to drinking earlier in the afternoon as I still had on my crawdad boil beads. But I killed a lot of time playing pool and watching a tv movie before driving home.

 

where in Plano? there seems to always be a cop at the entrance to tollway off of Plano Parkway (where the porsche and ferrari/maserati dealerships are)! Luckily I never got caught when I worked out there didn't have the mini either (was driving a VW GTI at the time)

Haven't gotten a ticket yet tho only about 500 miles since I picked mine up though .

 

I have @12500 miles and on the way to track days I was tagged (35mm camera and radar gun) doing 40kmph over the posted limit of 100kmph. OOPS!

 

Reckless driving. Saw someone pull out of a parking spot and just had to have it, street too narrow, 3-point would've resulted in me losing the spot. So what to do? E-brake 180. Officer on foot runs up, puts gun in window and tells me to step out, "you're going to jail". After half an hours worth of interrogation on the sidewalk and checking for warrants, etc. just gave me a ticket. My attorney plays poker with the DA of the city it happened in, $500 made it all just a bad memory.