{"id":9144,"date":"2021-01-16T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117976\/flipping-licence-plates-laser-jammers-hong-kong-car"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:00:24","slug":"flipping-licence-plates-laser-jammers-hong-kong-car-racing-crackdown-uncovers-gadgets-for-fast-and-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/flipping-licence-plates-laser-jammers-hong-kong-car-racing-crackdown-uncovers-gadgets-for-fast-and-furious\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping licence plates, laser jammers: Hong Kong car racing crackdown uncovers gadgets for fast and furious"},"content":{"rendered":"Recent police crackdowns on illegal racing in Hong Kong found two sports cars equipped with devices apparently meant to avoid being caught by detectors, the Post has learned, as complaints of speeding surged by 40 per cent for most of last year.One vehicle had an electronic gadget to flip up the licence plate and prevent it being photographed, while the other had a device to foil the laser lights emitted by police speed guns.Both are rarely seen in Hong Kong, and turned up as the number of\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117976\/flipping-licence-plates-laser-jammers-hong-kong-car\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent police crackdowns on illegal racing in Hong Kong found two sports cars equipped with devices apparently meant to avoid being caught by detectors, the Post has learned, as complaints of speeding surged by 40 per cent for most of last year.One veh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}