Here’s a cautionary tale for all those of you with MINI loving partners.  If you borrow their pride and joy, try not to get in a smash.  And if the unthinkable does happen, do the honest thing and fess up right away.

The Journal Sentinel has reported on a man who did unfortunately both crash his girlfriends car, and then lie about the incident.  The result.   A girlfriend with a bust fist, and a man under arrest!

After crashing his girlfriend’s Cooper, the 25 year old man in question, runs to the bar where he was due to meet his girlfriend.  Maybe as a result of the rush of blood from the jog, he spins a yarn about being car-jacked and the MINI Cooper being taken.   This news, not surprinsgly causes some upset, and in her rage his MINI owning girlfriend literally hits the wall, smashing up her hand in the process.

The result?  Police are called to enquire about the “theft”, and an ambulance crew arrive to deal with the injured hand.  Unfortunately for our un-named careless driver, the ambulance crew had witnessed the earlier accident and supplied the law enforcement officers with some “corrections” to the tale our mythical car jack victim was telling.

So take heed those who want to borrow your partners MINIs.  Don’t crash it.  And if you do, for everyone’s sake, just own up.