China Life - Precious moments like these...

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You guys will love this…. We were on the way to a meeting today and as we went through a check station, the traffic cop flagged us down. The van was reported to have 10 outstanding traffic violations that were past due. After some discussion, we were able to get the location of the violations; they were about 50% from speed cameras on the highway and the rest from cameras at traffic signals. The deal was that all but 1 of them was in LongHua district- a place that this van has literally never entered. The police impounded the van and held us all for a couple of hours by the side of the road.
What we were able to work out was that Lu (driver) went to the station and got the ticket list and had them pull up the photo records of the violations. Fortunately it was a car, not our van, so they agreed that the issue was a stolen tag number. We were then given the opportunity to bail the van out so that we can use it while the record is cleared up. This was a bit over $2,000 and the guy said that we would likely get most of it back within this year. What a neat deal, all part of life’s rich pageant I suppose.