the importance of using correct license plates

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Children Watch In Horror As Taiwan Government Tears Apart A Lamborghini Murciélago


Lamborghini Murciélago gets trashed by the Taiwanese government for running w/ the wrong plates.

[GH85Carrera]

So a tax cheat got caught. I have zero sympathy. It is just a car. Expensive car that the owner tried to evade the authorities in.

From the article: That license plate, according to Focus Taiwan (part of Taiwan’s state-run Central News Agency), came off a Ford sedan, and was placed on the supercar to try to evade authorities.

If that is accurate all all I have to say is HA HA. Caught ya.

[wayner]

The tax police there are obviously more aggressive than the health and safety police...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTihpDC4uw

[wdfifteen]

Seems extreme for evading authorities. Fine the guy & give him a little jail time. Nobody wins by destroying the car.

[kach22i]

Punish the owner, not the car.

[sammyg2]

Stupid guy trying to keep some of what he earned, he should know that everyone else is entitled to all of it!

[Jeff Higgins]

Isn't envy one of the "seven deadly sins"? One has to wonder if those cops would have gone after a lesser, but still illegally plated vehicle, with the same gusto.

Years ago an acquaintance of mine (my son and I raced R/C cars, and he was one of the competitors) got busted for evading our state's tobacco taxes. His uncle was chief of a local tribe, and he was next in line. I'm not sure of the details, but both went to prison and all "ill-gotten" assets were seized.

All well and good. Until his home surveillance videos were made public by his lawyers. He had a small "collection" of newer Ferraris in his garage. While "searching" this garage, the deputies conducting the "search" went a long ways out of their way to drop anything that was hanging on a wall, like bicycles, weed wackers, shovels, rakes, etc. onto these cars. They flung these cars' doors open into one another, ran the lawnmower into several of them, and on and on. Laughing and joking about it the whole time (there was no sound on the recordings, but it was pretty damn obvious).

Pretty unbelievable behavior from our "finest". They were never, as far as I know, held accountable in any way. They should have all been fired and fined to recover damages to what was, by then, public property. I assume it was all going to auction to try to recover some of the lost tax revenue.

And all of this was right here in the good ol' U.S. of A., where we are supposedly above all of that, where this kind of thing "doesn't happen". Anyone think it's any better in Taiwan?

[GH85Carrera]

Much like littering in Singapore or worse yet, spitting out chewing gum on the sidewalk. It will get you a nice beating with a cane.

Either change the laws or if ya break the law you feel is unjust, be prepared to suffer the consequences. It is just an expensive car. They can make more just like it. No different than a cheap car, just more money. If he bought a cheap car he could afford to pay the legal taxes.

I hate taxes as much as anyone but I pay all due taxes. With virtually no deductions I get raped at full rates.

[island911]

Comrades, we must all rejoice in the govt intervention, pulling down those people who strive for more.

Thank the glorious leaders for equilibrating our miserable lives to equal misery.

[Laneco]

Between hideous wheels and the grotesque use of the Italian flag colors in the interior, I would have to call this a mercy killing.

Seriously ugly, completely tasteless.

angela

[ossiblue]

There is nothing in the linked article that says the destruction was due to tax avoidance. In fact, at the end, there is mention of the crushing of the vehicle due to illegal importation. It is quite possible, if not more likely, the car was destroyed for that reason, not necessarily a failure to pay the correct tax. We just don't know, but when the article states that the car was carrying the tags of a Ford, "to evade authorities," we assumed it was to avoid the high tax. It could have been, but it could have just as easily have been an illegal import. For all we know, the car may have had a fake VIN or otherwise fraudulent identity--something that would qualify a car in the U.S. to be destroyed as well.

BTW, the car had been impounded three years ago. During that time, the owner appealed the process and, ultimately, lost and the car was destroyed.

[GH85Carrera]

Bottom line, that tag did not get put on there by accident. It was done to as the article states to try to evade authorities.

In this country it is done regularly I am sure but the car is not destroyed just fines are levied. Unless it was a illegal import and not a DOT legal import. The feds will indeed crush an illegal imported car.

Pretty evident the owner was willing to skirt the law. He fought the law, and the law won. Hey I should write a song!

[Schumi]

Could have sold the car at auction and donated the proceeds to local charities... but no. They have to be the big dogs. edit: if the car was illegally imported I could understand why it could not be auctioned off again, but surely there would be a way to sell it somewhere to receive some sort of cash that could in return do good going to charity. That's a $360,000 car just gone... more money than all those people will make in a lifetime...

Saw a video last year of a sheriff's or state highway patrol's collection of confiscated motorcycles, all were taken due to being unregistered or some major offense that warranted confiscation without return.... looked like 30-40 bikes, all types- supermotors, 600's, liter bikes, busas... they ran them all over with a big dozer or CAT, then fed them to a scrapper.

Absolutely ridiculous. I understand not wanting the bikes to be resold cheap and put back on the street maybe, just going back to the original owners or whatever... but they could have had the frames cut, and then given to local tech schools or universities that teach engine repair or engineering. Or just sent to a yard that parts bikes out and take any proceeds and again donate to local charities. But no... $100,000 worth of stuff destroyed in under a minute just to act like big children and 'send a message' ...

[island911]

Some people build; some destroy.

And some people who destroy say You didn't build that.

[Jeff Higgins]

Some guys just have to have the biggest swingin' dick in the yard. Seems many of these are attracted to positions of authority. Yes, the good that could have come from auctioning off that car could have had a positive impact on some poor unfortunates' lives. But no, it's far more important to demonstrate that you da man, that others must respect your authori-tay, than to consider such trivial matters. We see this all the time.

I spend a good deal of time in Taipei. There is certainly no shortage of cars of this caliber. As a matter of fact, I would go so far as to say there are noticeably more of them than in just about any other place I've been. I wonder what this particular guy did to piss them off.

[sammyg2]

I hereby promise to never, ever be a burden on the good people of Taiwan.

[vash]

that car is badass. but traffic there: i bet he just putts it around. some old lady probably passed him on her scooter.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by vash

that car is badass. but traffic there: i bet he just putts it around. some old lady probably passed him on her scooter.

They only seem to come out in the middle of the night. Around midnight or later, you can almost always have one or more in earshot in downtown Taipei.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Dumb. They could've seized it and sold it netting probably WAY more than they'd lost in tax revenue. Just goes to show that law enforcement is still a viable career choice for the dumb bully kids who always got Cs and Ds in middle school.

[intakexhaust]

With higher population comes more psychopaths, breeds larger govt. and excess regulation.

Bring on the revenge of the machine. LOL