Chin sai wan do sam ho, mgoi (my HK address in Cantonese)
OK, not sure of the time it takes before a 'crime' cannot be chargeable.....
When I was 17 yrs old I decided to (show off and) take my cousin visiting from Canada on a tour of Hong Kong in my mother's BMW. We were driving through Central, The Peak, Wong Nai Chung Gap and down into Repulse Bay and onto Stanley Markets. We were driving for a good 2 hours, when lo and behold, there was a police checkpoint ahead (checking for illegal immigrants) and checking HK ID's - if you live in Hong Kong, you MUST have a "HK ID Card" on you at
all times - this is a legal requirement to ensure that NO illegal immigrants enter HK from China and if you don't have one on your person, you will be placed 'under arrest' until they verify who you are. This HK ID Card has picture, address, date of birth etc...
So, coming up to the roadblock, I was absolutely shitting myself !:jsm:
Here I was driving my mums BMW (without her knowledge and with Dad overseas on business), under age (you have to be 18yrs old to learn to drive in HK) and with no licence. Anyway, the policeman came up to our car (I think I peed my pants a little bit!!) BUT when he saw two '"******'s" ("white ghosts" - the term for white caucasian males) in the car, he just waved us by.....
We found out later that the police were always careful when stopping/interviewing white caucasians as they could never tell who our parents might be (ie. high ranking expats in government or whatever). I just think that this time we were lucky......
(The following week I took Dad's Merc out for a drive and actually met Stanley Ho, one of HK's most wealthiest men, and later that day the owner of "Crocodile" - the copycat of clothing company "la Coste" - but that's another 2 stories...!)
Today, with China looking after Hong Kong, I reckon you would have no chance doing what I did when it was under British rule...
God save the Queen...