Spinning Plates

And no black plates?

There are very few black plates in Guangxi. The only ones I have seen in 13 years belong to the Thai consulate in Nanning.

They have diplomatic immunity, anyway.

(Black plates are issued to foreign owned and registered vehicles, including diplomatic vehicles.)

I like how they double the number of cars caught by laying out both the front and the rear plates. They're not all next to each other, however, so I don't envy the person who has to sort them before returning them to their owners. Also, did they just abandon their cars on the highway or something?

Yes. PLA does what they like to do. And they don't like each other.That's why cops are copped by cops.

I really, really, really hate those white-plated bastards.

Cheers!

Help a clueless American. The cops stop a speeder and remove the plates. Then the plates are taken to a garage and photographed for the local media to prove the cops are doing their job. What happens to the car and the driver? Plates returned when fine is paid? Can't drive the car until then? And the PLA is least likely to pay off the local constabulary at the spot of infraction? Or the PLA is most likely to speed?

Ken.

Yes. They stop a speeder and remove the plates. This is supposed to render the car unusable till the fine is paid. Of course, it doesn't. You just go buy fake plates. If they are cheaper than the fine.

I've never seen them photographed like this before, though there is a regular television program which shows violaters and publishes numbers. You can see one episode here.

"And the PLA is least likely to pay off the local constabulary at the spot of infraction?" Yes. The PLA is more likely to beat the cops withing an inch of their lives. I have witnessed this. The PLA rule! End of.

The PLA are officially exempt from many laws. They don't have to pay for parking. They don't pay toll fees. (In good old communist China, you have to pay to use roads. (Unless you are local to that city. Which is why removing plates hurts. The locals can't drive around their city any more without paying.) In addition to their legal exemptions, most assume that they are exempt from all laws, from traffic violations to blatant corruption. And they get away with it. Who is going to stop them? The local cops? Forget it. The all-powerful Communist Party can't control them. Quite the reverse.

The photo is just nonsense. Propaganda which no one believes.

Thanks for the explanation. Your version is what I expected, but I still am amazed that the police got that many white plates.

They didn't get that many. It's propaganda.

Well, it did make for an interesting photograph!