Quote Originally Posted by slabo View Post
And when shouldn't I be looking when I turn?
Yeh, I got caught by that too. Must have forgotten my satire spectacles.

I saw plenty of foreign kids at the Jiaoji Lu moto mart. They used to walk up to me and ask questions as I was sitting there trying to get repairs. Most of them were riding the more expensive Yamahas, which had modding shops on the street and not in the back alley.

I agree though. The excuse of looking for foreigners on modded scooters is just a smoke show. The inclusion of skateboards in the article just makes it look like a "You damned kids, stay offa my lawn!" kind of attitude. Not the first time we've seen this though. In 2009 they had the big trucks full of confiscated scooters sitting at intersections as the cops pulled over everybody and anybody, looking for fake or "missing" plates. Then they got tired of paying for that and tried to make it illegal to buy gas within the city limits without legal plates. Wow, that really worked.

I very much respect that the government is trying to regulate something that is getting way out of control. However, claiming it's foreigners, kids, or little green men from mars just ignores that fact that the majority of them are Shanghairen trying to get from A to B.