A large sum confiscated by savage mid-level repairs

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I previously wrote a brief news commentary about Guangzhou strengthening the management and crackdown on electric bikes ([旧闻新看] 电动自行车号牌，人民群众的锁链。电鸡围城谁之过？). Unexpectedly, I also experienced being targeted myself, and afterward I felt extremely annoyed. Because of this incident, my direct financial loss exceeded 1,000 yuan, my driver’s license was deducted 19 points, and I had to spend three mornings studying and taking exams again. Here is the account:

A few days ago in the morning, I was riding my electric bike to work when I encountered several police dogs checking electric bikes at a narrow intersection. These police dogs were very insidious; one was guarding a turn at the front of the intersection. From behind, they were checking whether riders had license plates. Those without plates were notified by the guarding police dog to stop their vehicles. Because the intersection was crowded with many people trying to go to work, it was not very convenient to run, and some people had already been stopped. I hesitated for a moment and then stopped my bike. I initially thought it was no big deal, but suddenly the savage police dog came up and asked why my electric bike had no license plate, saying they would confiscate my vehicle. I tried to reason, saying I was late for work, but this police dog, which is detached from the people and part of the violent law enforcement apparatus, said I should first ride a shared electric bike to work. I then asked when I could handle this, but the despicable police dog told me they would be off duty at 11:30 a.m. / 4:30 p.m. — these civil servants trained by the government are quite comfortable. Ordinary workers don’t have time to handle this before they finish work, and would have to take leave, which might cause the “full attendance award” that is deducted by capitalists from wages to disappear. Moreover, they said I had 15 days to accept the punishment, or else I didn’t know what the result would be — perhaps my electric bike would be sold by the police dog for quick cash. Later, I saw others’ experiences online, saying that to have the police dog “deal with” the electric bike, you also had to pay a 50 yuan handling fee, which is basically paying money to let others seize your property. This operation by the law enforcement is simply outrageous. It made me think of countries that enforce mandatory garbage sorting, but in fact, these laws are not super-classed; under capitalism, they just use state power to force residents to sort garbage, ultimately benefiting those so-called garbage recycling companies and reducing their variable capital expenditure.

After that, I had to deal with the confiscated vehicle. The next day, I hurried to the traffic police team. The police dog said I was riding an electric moped and needed to complete compulsory insurance before handling the case. At that moment, I didn’t realize I had already been dragged into an even deeper vortex. After handling the insurance, the next day I went again to the police dog to accept an unspecified punishment. After some online research, I found that someone was fined over 2,000 yuan, which is nearly the price of buying a new car. The law of the law enforcement is extremely disgusting — for example, this fine fluctuates between 200 and 2000 yuan, and how much to fine is entirely at the discretion of the police dog. But if I wanted to retrieve my vehicle, I had no choice but to accept this punishment. I initially thought it was just a fine, but because I still had a motor vehicle driver’s license, I also lost points. When they calculated the fine and points deduction, they listed the following charges:

  1. No license plate, deduct 9 points, fine 200 yuan;
  2. Driving without proper license, deduct 9 points, fine 200 yuan;
  3. Driving in a prohibited motorcycle area, deduct 1 point, fine 100 yuan;
  4. Double fine for compulsory insurance, 312 yuan; total 812 yuan.

Seeing such an amount, I asked the police dog if they could reduce it, but the police dog said they had already imposed the minimum penalty. Based on this punishment, the police dog directly deducted my driver’s license again, and I had to spend two mornings on-site studying and re-taking the first exam before I could get my license back.

— To be continued

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Electric scooters are indeed everywhere in Guangdong; when I went to Jiushui Pond, they were everywhere.
But what you’re saying doesn’t seem right. You’re driving an electric scooter, what does that have to do with your driver’s license? And deducting 19 points is very outrageous and almost unbelievable. Normally, you should retake the test to get your driver’s license, not just the first subject. Also, the points deducted are as high as if you caused a fatal accident while drunk driving and fled the scene, which I can’t understand.
Furthermore, his cutoff is also unbelievable—no-motorcycle zones? According to your article, many people are crowded there, so how can it be a no-motorcycle zone? Where in Guangdong do electric scooters not exist?

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You simply don’t understand. The traffic police in Zhongxiu are this brutal; checking electric bikes just results in deducting points from your motor vehicle license. And you also completely don’t understand the traffic regulations. A driver’s license has a single point deduction cycle, which is within one year, and if you accumulate twelve points for the first time but less than twenty-four points, you must retake subject one. You probably haven’t obtained a driver’s license before.

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Electric scooters are also banned as motorcycles; everywhere is a no-scooter zone.

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Dog police are really disgusting. When it comes to hitting performance targets, these stinky dogs will squat behind trees at various intersections, communicating via walkie-talkie back and forth. Anyone not wearing a helmet or carrying a passenger will be arrested, fined 20, and have to watch a five or six-minute educational video. This kind of enforcement easily causes delays, and a fine of twenty means losing an hour’s income for many workers.

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The most outrageous thing is that I once encountered a traffic police officer who initially fined me fifty for not wearing a helmet, but then he insisted that when crossing the zebra crossing, I didn’t push the bike forward but rode it across, and he said he would fine me two thousand, which is almost as expensive as the bike. These people are like robbers and bandits, looting without any regard for laws or standards.

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Damn, I just remembered that I was asked to get off my bike by a police dog when I was riding my bike out before and had to push it across the street.

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Reflections on the on-site study:
On the first day, we signed in and watched videos, including a lot of “Today’s Sayings.” The videos were quite thought-provoking. One involved a logistics driver from Zhongtong who unfortunately died from fatigue driving. It turned out to be the evil capitalists outsourcing workers to cut down on variable capital. The traffic police then went to Zhongtong to investigate why the company gave drivers such tight schedules, failing to comply with the regulation that mandates at least a 20-minute rest after 4 hours of continuous driving. Zhongtong’s penalties for drivers are as follows: within half an hour late for delivery deducts 50, between half an hour and 1 hour deducts 100, over an hour deducts 300. This is an extremely outrageous system. The driver had been penalized many times in the past month. Zhongtong’s safety officer monitoring driver status is just a figurehead, claiming they can’t operate the monitoring system. However, a police dog quickly figured out how to operate it after a look. The police dog also said that the incident wasn’t a technical problem but a human one. It seems they understand politics very well. In the end, the company was fined 250,000 yuan, and the safety officer and fleet leader were sent to jail, which is just a drop in the bucket. I also wonder what compensation the victim’s family received. The company’s illegal actions are fully tolerated by Zhongxiu, and although the police dog analyzed the direct cause of the incident, it couldn’t investigate the root social system. It’s just a small blame game, hardly any reform, and the 25,000 yuan fine probably just padded their own pockets. There was also a traffic police rescue during a tunnel fire, where he got trapped and couldn’t retreat in time. The rescue was overly beautified. One police officer in an interview said he couldn’t go on and couldn’t continue, which made me feel like the police dogs at the bottom are good, remembering the beatings but forgetting the kindness. Then there was a video about a drunken driver who hit an elderly person and fled. The ending emphasized honesty and responsibility, seemingly an attempt to promote a moral superstructure, implying that even if the proletariat offend the bourgeoisie, they should obediently surrender.

On the second day, I continued watching videos. The first was about checking for drunk driving, which I initially thought was good because drunk driving harms public safety and should be punished. But then I wondered if police dogs might falsify data, which left me speechless. I don’t know if it’s really that crazy. I also think that my view that police dogs checking for drunk driving is somewhat useful is a right-wing opposition to errors, but it’s not enough. I wonder if under socialism, education about social responsibility should be used to prevent drunk driving, or if there will be no more drunk driving in the future. Currently, police dogs say that drunk driving endangers others. Then there was a story about traffic police giving green channels to ambulances. I can’t judge its nature. Even if these police officers are genuinely saving lives, ultimately they serve the bourgeoisie’s stable rule. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There was also a police officer claiming they are law enforcers and must be firm, saying if they don’t manage, no one will. I think police dogs are so arrogant because they feel backed by Zhongxiu’s state power, so they are not polite at all. But when it comes to incidents like Qiongzhong Haijiao, police dogs back down. Malicious police dogs only bully isolated masses. I also saw police dogs stopping a seemingly scrapped motorcycle, where the owner wanted to threaten the police with a knife. I wondered if this could be seen as the owner being cornered and resisting violent authorities. There was also talk of installing temperature detection devices on trucks’ wheels, but most people resist, feeling it’s surveillance. It’s clear that police dogs are now seen by many as troublemakers.

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2000 is just too incredible; I also got fined for not using the crosswalk as an excuse before.

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Zhongxiu’s crackdown on drunk driving is mainly to increase fines and revenue, not for “public safety.” If it were for public safety, then why only impose fines on ordinary workers and not on bureaucrats? There was a news story before about someone driving a Maserati being caught drunk driving, and they loudly claimed to know Director Yuwei, asking traffic police not to check them. Such incidents are very common. My father is a lackey of Zhongxiu’s bureaucrats and capitalists. When he used to socialize with capitalists, even if he was drunk driving, he could “turn misfortune into blessing” by showing his connections with bureaucrats when encountering traffic police. Many people who have caused fatalities before are bureaucrats and capitalists from Zhongxiu, and they can “lose money and avoid disaster,” suppressing these incidents and news. I don’t know if Zhongxiu fabricates evidence, so I can’t say for sure, but they selectively report news to create gender discrimination, such as “female drivers harm people.”

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The Zhongxiu (Chinese Communist Party) promotes the idea that police dogs are good, just like they promote drug enforcement police as good. Clearly, the ones who abuse drugs the most are bourgeois bureaucrats and their accomplices (like celebrities). In capitalist society, unreasonable social systems and road planning are the real culprits of traffic accidents, yet they insist on saying police dogs are good. For Zhongxiu bureaucrats, it’s just about killing a couple of dogs to numb the people.

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However, these people in reality will only be despised and rejected by the masses, just as Engels said: The most insignificant policeman in a civilized country possesses greater authority than all the organs of tribal society combined; but the most powerful princes and the greatest national leaders or commanders of the civilized era may envy the authority enjoyed by the most ordinary tribal chief, which is not obtained by coercive means, but is unquestionable respect.

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