[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?