MINI Plant Exec Jailed for Speeding

Draconian speed laws designed to appeal to mass mediocrity; folks who like to use a phone while driving, eat triple heart attack burgers and perform other acts in car all having nothing to do with driving. Speed doesn’t neccessarily kill, but stupidity at any speeds does…not that I know the circumstance. This is more a rant than anything. wow, glad I vented. Thanks Gabe.

What kind of asshat would sell out his own son to save his drivers license?

Mr. Moser, you should be ashamed of yourself. And this is not just about wreck less speeding but also about intentional and systematic lying to the authorities. What a tool this guy is. Using his son as a shield to prevent losing his driver’s license (And most likely his cushy job at BMW) is beyond reprehensible.

Kudos to London police for putting this individual behind bars. I hope BMW takes disciplinary actions and fires this guy on the spot.

He has indeed tarnished not only his personal reputation, but BMW/MINI as a whole.

I hope his dismissal serves as a deterrent to other higher ups in the BMW chain of command to think twice about caught speeding in the products they sell.

I’m all for corporate responsibility, but the bad choices this guy makes outside the office shouldn’t bother his job by default. If everybody got sacked for every one of their indiscretions both in and outside the office, no one would have jobs. Here it’s a gray area, since he works for a high-end car company. But seriously, he tried to get out of a speeding ticket, not steel the car, or hand the cop his beer when he got pulled over. He got caught, he’ll serve his time, and that should be the end of it. It’s really easy to call for a dismissal when it isn’t YOUR job.

Hey give the guy a break. In Germany on the Autobahn you can go as fast as you want in some places. Auto journos rave about this. Now if you were driving in a foreign country, would you know all the rules of the road? Fire him for speeding? No. For lying? Maybe. Jail term? How come Paris Hilton got out so soon?

Maybe he was trying to get to his closest dealer in less than 3 hours

yeah, come off your high horses.

It’s one thing to drive 101 mph in a 50-mph zone; it’s quite another to lie about it and place the blame on your son — three times, no less. Makes you wonder about how honestly he keeps BMW’s books. And someone that high up the corporate food chain most definitely is aware that England doesn’t have an autobahn.

For those of you railing aginst traffic cameras, I suppose you’re willing to pony up some extra money to put more cops on the beat? Didn’t think so . . .

VanWall, I usually agree with most of what you say not this time. Gotta go with Nathan here. Some of you have some funny things to say…and some…. I’d like to be a bug in your car from time to time to see if your halos are really glowing that bright. LOL

RB – I would ordinarily have some sympathy for the sap, it’s hard to keep that needle pointing to a legal speed sometimes; however, it’s no longer about just speeding, it’s about using his own son as a scapegoat that would saddle the poor kid with consequences of his father’s making – I no longer have faith in the confidentiality of juvenile records – and lying multiple times to make it so. It’s so contemptible, it’s beyond expletives.

It smacks of cowardice if you feel it’s only evasion of points, and worse if it’s seen as a measure of his trust – he’s responsible for some serious financials, and much of that level of responsibility has a higher measure of one’s ethics. If he was willing to perjure himself so baldly about a traffic violation, who knows what his limits are. If he had taken his medicine for the speeding, I’d say he was a stand-up guy; at this point, I wouldn’t trust him with a burned-out match, much less the books.

Thanks Rob, I appreciate your restraint. ;-)

Jail term? How come Paris Hilton got out so soon?

GregW, Well, here is a good argument. Let’s see, un like the good old USA, countries in Europe take driving seriously. The drivers education is VERY expensive and the test is hard and again expensive! I wish that it was as hard here as it is in many EU countries, just think of all the bad, no horrible drivers that would be off the road.

You go watch TMZ so you can keep up with Paris, I will go to Germany again and drive the Autobahn.

Take away the guy’s MINI and assign him a Yugo for life.

Well Nathaniel, I’m am sorry as I hate Robert being shortened to “Bob” but it happens. So sorry but there are worse things in life? LOL

Yeah, like getting thrown in the slam for six weeks! Ha ha!

Funny, Juan.

I think that the real story here is that he was going 101 in a One.

And I think that I will start calling Nathanial “The Salz” for his zesty comments that keep MF full of flavor. ;) Any flattering nickname is a term of endearment.

And as for myself, you can just call me O(=^=)O. Or the artist formerly known as Capn.

Okay, I know it wasn’t a One, but whatever.