The thing he complained about in the chat group (the cops confiscating motorbikes) was disturbingly common to see when I lived in Shanghai. A guy riding his tri

The thing he complained about in the chat group (the cops confiscating motorbikes) was disturbingly common to see when I lived in Shanghai. A guy riding his tricycle (sometimes with a small battery to take the load off) piled high with cardboard he's bought from shops or scrap metal that he's bought from construction sites. He takes it to the recycling place and sells it for a profit of what probably amounts to a few dollars a day. And he's the first guy the cops seem to target to impound his bike, either because he was riding somewhere bikes are not allowed to, or because he doesn't have a license to make those few dollars a day doing that.