This was in my Sunday paper's Parade magazine, I'm typing it word-for-word.
"A Chinese vegetable peddler named Du Baoliang was fined $1300 (more than a year's pay for most Beijing residents) for making an illegal turn - 105 times. A hidden camera recorded his turns past a no-entry sign each day en route to his vegetable stall in Beijing. Unlike U.S. drivers,who get printed notices by mail, Beijing residents have to check their records themselves. Baoliang didn't, and the camera kept fining him. The district court has agreed to hear the case."
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Now there's a way to balance the budget. Just keep racking up all kinds of vehicular fines and make the people responsible for checking whether or not they've been getting caught. Heck. they got this guy for a whole year's pay! Somehow, I don't that would fly over here.
"A Chinese vegetable peddler named Du Baoliang was fined $1300 (more than a year's pay for most Beijing residents) for making an illegal turn - 105 times. A hidden camera recorded his turns past a no-entry sign each day en route to his vegetable stall in Beijing. Unlike U.S. drivers,who get printed notices by mail, Beijing residents have to check their records themselves. Baoliang didn't, and the camera kept fining him. The district court has agreed to hear the case."
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Now there's a way to balance the budget. Just keep racking up all kinds of vehicular fines and make the people responsible for checking whether or not they've been getting caught. Heck. they got this guy for a whole year's pay! Somehow, I don't that would fly over here.
