My Father is Li Gong!

[Ranb]

A young man allegedly ran over two female skaters then fled the scene. When he was detained by campus security, witnesses claimed he boasted, "My father is Li Gang!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/world/asia/18li.html

China’s Censors Misfire in Abuse-of-Power Case

But the Li Gang case was hard to suppress, partly because it personified an enduring grievance: the belief that the powerful can flout the rules to which ordinary folk are forced to submit. Increasingly, that grievance focuses on what Chinese mockingly call the “guan er dai” and “fu er dai” — the “second generation,” children of privileged government officials and the super-rich.

China obviously does not have the market cornered on corruption of this sort. My wife says this kind of thing is common back home in Thailand. Anyone else got examples of people bragging about how bullet-proof they are?

Ranb

 

[Foolmewunz]

While it's quite common in much of Asia, the difference in this case is that the little snot openly stated as much. They generally wait until they've gone "downtown" for the officials to learn who they are and quietly release them.
In Thailand, although there are no official documents or records, the scuttlebutt is that the greatest perpetrator of this "Do you know who I am?" crap is the heir apparent. It's one of the reasons behind the populist unrest - they don't see the potential new monarch as half the man his father was.

 

[Loss Leader]

I was in Atlanta during the Olympics, as were Al Gore's daughters. At the time, they were single, young girls and their father was the Vice President. This story may be apocryphal, but they were apparantly standing in line waiting to be let into a dance club. The bouncer was apparantly rude to them. Karenna is reputed to have said, "I don't mean to be a bitch, but do you know who we are?"

They got into the club.

 

[SezMe]

Anyone else got examples of people bragging about how bullet-proof they are?

Meg Whitman's son (his last name is Harsh, his father's last name):

Griff Harsh (Meg Whitman's son) throws beer in Guy's face.
Guy: You can't do that to people.
Griff Harsh (points at himself): Billionaire.

 

[Ranb]

While it's quite common in much of Asia, the difference in this case is that the little snot openly stated as much. They generally wait until they've gone "downtown" for the officials to learn who they are and quietly release them.
In Thailand, although there are no official documents or records, the scuttlebutt is that the greatest perpetrator of this "Do you know who I am?" crap is the heir apparent. It's one of the reasons behind the populist unrest - they don't see the potential new monarch as half the man his father was.

My wife (who is a proud yellow shirt) somtimes goes on and on about how she does not like the prince. But she still does not like it when I call him the evil prince. She is also full of anecdotes about how the wealthy feel they are above the law.

Ranb

 

[Skeptic]

I was in Atlanta during the Olympics, as were Al Gore's daughters. At the time, they were single, young girls and their father was the Vice President. This story may be apocryphal, but they were apparantly standing in line waiting to be let into a dance club. The bouncer was apparantly rude to them. Karenna is reputed to have said, "I don't mean to be a bitch, but do you know who we are?"

Could be worse... after all, clubs WANT to cater to celebrities for their own benefit, so when they reminded them they were celebrities they weren't exactly forcing the club owners to do something they would rather not out of fear.

 

[quadraginta]

I was in Atlanta during the Olympics, as were Al Gore's daughters. At the time, they were single, young girls and their father was the Vice President. This story may be apocryphal, but they were apparantly standing in line waiting to be let into a dance club. The bouncer was apparantly rude to them. Karenna is reputed to have said, "I don't mean to be a bitch, but do you know who we are?"

Could be worse... after all, clubs WANT to cater to celebrities for their own benefit, so when they reminded them they were celebrities they weren't exactly forcing the club owners to do something they would rather not out of fear.

One petty detail which might lead me to suspect this story may be apocryphal. I would suspect that the Secret Service would prefer the children of a sitting VP not proclaim their presence too loudly, or offer themselves as targets unnecessarily. I doubt that they would need to stand in line in a crowd on the street.

If it was after July 27 I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have even been allowed to.

 

[Eddie Dane]

I went to school with a guy who's father was a member of parliament at the time.

Once we got pulled over by the police because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt.
We all had to get out of the car and were told he'd be fined.

At which point he said (to my absolute horror, I should add) the immortal words: 'do you know who my father is?'
The police woman didn't even give him the chance to tell her his fathers' name. She just told him to shut up, walked around the car, Identified several technical problems with it and gave him an additional two fines.

As the police drove off, he was standing next to his car looking somewhat...deflated.