Yang Xi (杨曦) is a photo journalist for Nanfang Daily. The following images are from his blog on daqi.com.
Guangzhou traffic police caught this Mr. Chen, who was driving without a license plate at 8 am, Dec. 8, 2006.
The wife and two daughters of Mr. Chen also came to beg the police to not punish him.
Mr. Chen’s daughter grabs the tractor, crying to please not tow the tractor away.
Chen’s wife was arguing with the police.
Police were angry at Chen and took him into the police car.
Chen’s wife fought to get her husband out of the police car.
One daughter was still grabbing the tractor, the younger one was crying.
Police issued the ticket.
The tractor was towed away. Mr. Chen can make a living getting 20 RMB for each tractor load shipping construction materials.