was told the police confiscated some big bikes in Beijing during the last few days, another crackdown before the mid autumn festival / october national holidays?

Ride safe, PAL

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Singer's son is released
By Li Jinghao | 2011-9-11 | Shanghai Daily

Sep 11, 2011, BEIJING police have released the son of famous Chinese military singer Li Shuangjiang who allegedly assaulted a couple over a road dispute as the 15-year-old boy is exempt from criminal charges because he is still a minor, a Guangdong newspaper reported yesterday.

Li Tianyi was freed after 15 hours in custody and police said the case had been transferred to the traffic police department for further investigation, Xinkuai Newspaper reported.

The souped-up BMW the boy drove was reported to be involved in 32 traffic violations and until the latest accident happened, nobody showed up to shoulder the penalties for those violations, the report said.

According to Beijing police, Li Tianyi and an 18-year-old man surnamed Su were detained on Thursday. The pair had quarreled with a couple outside a residential complex over an accident that injured the couple on Tuesday.

The minimum driving age in China is 18.

Media reports said Su drove an Audi with a license plate number used by government officials in northern Shanxi Province. Su later admitted he faked the plate and lied that he was related to a senior police officer in Shanxi.

Shanxi police later said Su's father is a board chairman of a big company and operates an auto trade company.

Su's Audi was also found to be involved in 36 traffic violations since September 2009, according to the Beijing Times.

The couple accepted the military singer's apology in hospital but said they had hired lawyers and would launch legal proceedings against their attackers.