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BEIJING — Hoping to please his future in-laws, Larry Li fought the snarling Beijing traffic one recent spring day to chauffeur them from the train station to his home in the city in a white Volkswagen he had bought just a month earlier. Fl studio 12 serial number.

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The good will came with a cost: a fine of 200 renminbi, or $30, and a points penalty.

Mr. Li, 28, a financial worker, said he and his fiancée were getting married and had just bought a car. “I felt obliged to pick her family up at the train station,” he said. “We took some detours, but we were still videotaped.”

The transgression: He had no local license plate, just an out-of-town one.

Mr. Li has had a long struggle with the city government over its attempts to limit congestion by rationing license plates.

In the past five years, he has applied 47 times for a Beijing license plate through a lottery-like online registry. But each time, the response has been a terse line: License plate not granted.

Beijing is one of a handful of Chinese cities that limits car license plates by official decree. The competition for a license plate in Beijing is ferocious. In the June lottery, only about one in 725 out of the 2.7 million applicants was granted a license plate, according to official data, making the system one of the most selective in the country.

As China has urbanized and the Chinese have become more affluent, owning a car has become a way of life for many middle-class citizens. Even in Beijing, a city plagued by gridlock, the desire for cars remains strong.

Troubled by crowded public transportation systems, the middle class has come to associate cars with the freedom to travel. The city, with a population of about 21 million, now has 5.6 million cars, more than double what it had 10 years ago.

The glut of cars is believed to cause about 30 percent of the air pollution in Beijing, according to the city’s environmental watchdog. Not only are cars clogging the city’s streets, they also encroach on public spaces like sidewalks and bike lanes because of a lack of parking.

Faced with the problems brought on by the growing number of cars, city officials decided to take action. This month, Beijing’s transportation authorities said they would keep the number of cars under 6.3 million by the end of 2020 by further tightening the annual quota for license plates.

The quota this year is set at 90,000, down from 120,000 a year earlier. City officials are also considering traffic congestion fees based on driving radius and number of trips.

China is the world’s largest car market. In big cities, along with a house, a car is widely seen as a must-have before marriage. So as Mr. Li’s wedding date drew near, his patience ran out: After buying the Volkswagen in April, he drove more than 620 miles to his fiancée’s home province, Jilin in northeast China, to register his car.

With an out-of-town license plate, Mr. Li is turning to a decades-long policy called “jinjingzheng,” which translates as the “enter Beijing certificate.” The police-issued permit, which must be renewed weekly, allows people like him to drive in Beijing, but it bans driving during morning and evening rush hours throughout the city, and from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on several major roads.

Jinjingzheng now helps people like Mr. Li circumvent the city’s license plate rationing, which was created in the late 1970s to monitor traffic inflows from nearby provinces. (Mr. Li got his permit after the police fine.)

Zhou Pei, a 39-year-old engineer and city resident, tried a different approach after his unsuccessful application for a local plate in the lottery. Through a used-car salesman functioning as a middleman, he rented a plate for 5,800 renminbi a year (about $870) in 2013. Mr. Zhou and the owner of the plate, whom Mr. Zhou had never met, signed a contract.

After his mother-in-law sold her car in 2014, she was free to legally match her plate to another vehicle within six months. Mr. Zhou thought it would be safer to drive a car under the name of his relative. But when he tried to terminate the contract with the unknown owner of the plate, he found that the man had died.

“Technically speaking, my car was under his name, so it was his asset,” Mr. Zhou said. “I ended up going through a lot of hassle to solve the problem.”

The city’s mandate to control vehicle congestion has created a thriving, and illegal, underground market for license plates, said Nie Huihua, a professor of economics at Renmin University in Beijing.

It is against the law to lease a plate obtained through the lottery system, and those who do risk revocation.

Not to mention liability. Because the owner of a license plate is assumed to also be the owner of a car, those who rent plates worry that the owner could go behind their back to “sell” the car or use it as collateral in times of financial difficulties. And license plate owners fear that they will be held responsible if the renters get into serious traffic accidents.

“The reality is that many families who already have a car still have family members registering for the lottery system,” Professor Nie said, “whereas many people who need cars can’t get a license plate. This is not fair at all.”

Nowadays, such dealings have largely migrated online, and prices have shot through the sunroof. Discussion forums devoted to cars and classified advertisement sites like 58.com are flooded with advertisements offering to rent car license plates for Beijing, with prices ranging from 10,000 renminbi (about $1,500) to 13,000 renminbi ($1,950) a year.

The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, which is responsible for the management of license plates, did not respond to a request for comment. Its former head, Song Jianguo, was sentenced to life in prison this year for handing out license plates in exchange for bribes.

So all that Mr. Li, the Beijing financial worker, can do now is wait for luck to turn his way in the license plate lottery. He and his wife take public transportation to work. But the car always comes in handy for a quick weekend escape from the city, to buy furniture for their new home and to visit their parents, now a 30-minute drive away.

“Owning a car is very important for my family,” he said.

Leeroy Jenkins is a character name for a player character created by Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's MMORPGWorld of Warcraft. The character became popular due to his role in a video that became an Internet meme. Knowledge of the video has spread beyond the game's community and into other online and mainstream media.

Video[edit]

The original video was released by a World of Warcraftplayer guild to video-sharing site Warcraftmovies on May 11, 2005.^[1] The video features a group of players discussing a detailed battle plan for their next encounter while Leeroy is away from his computer, preparing a plate of chicken. This plan is intended to help Leeroy obtain a piece of armor from the boss monsters, but is ruined when Leeroy himself returns and, ignorant of the strategy, immediately rushes headlong into battle shouting his own name in a stylized battle cry. His companions rush to help, but Leeroy's actions ruin the detailed plan and all the members of the group are killed. (The plan was deeply flawed even before Leeroy ruined it, containing several critical misunderstandings of the then-current game mechanics.)^[2]

The Internet meme started with the release of the video clip called A Rough Go^[3] to the World of Warcraft game forum in a thread titled 'UBRS (vid) Rookery Overpowered! blue plz.', which presented the video in a serious context.^[4] The thread requested that other players provide help with strategy and that Blizzard reduce the difficulty of the encounter. The video spread as an Internet meme, and Leeroy's supposed response to the other players' chastisements, 'at least I have chicken',^[3] was also much mimicked. (It should be noted, however, that he actually says, 'At least I ain't chicken.' but due to the way the video sounds, the foregoing misquote has become common.)

When in April 2008 he was asked about his actions in the video by National Public Radio, Ben Schulz said the players 'were drinking 40s and just yelling at each other.'^[5] As time went on, some began suggesting that the video may have been staged. Schulz had refused to confirm or deny whether the video was staged.^[3] Later, in December 2017, Schulz, along with Ben 'Anfrony' Vinson, the cameraman of the video, released what he described as a first take/dry run of the video.^[6] Regarding the video, Vinson stated, 'We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real, we thought it was so obviously satire.'^[7]

Merchandise[edit]

The character's popularity resulted in his inclusion in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game released on October 25, 2006, with art by Mike Krahulik.^[8]

A 'Leeroy Jenkins' Legendary card was later released in Blizzard's online card game Hearthstone, as part of the game's base ('Classic') set, and using the same art as that of the WoW TCG.^[9]

Upper Deck Entertainment released a World of Warcraft Miniatures game in late 2008, which included a Leeroy Jenkins figurine.^[10] As a reference to Leeroy's famous claim, the figure is seen holding a chicken leg in his left hand.^[11]

Reaction[edit]

The May 2005 issue of PC Gamer UK featured an article on the video, titled 'The Ballad of Leeroy Jenkins'. The article took the position that the video was designed as a negative commentary on the kind of 'nerd-guilds' whose members fastidiously plan raids with all the seriousness of actual military tacticians. They added that they felt Leeroy is the hero acting against the geekiness of his guild.^[12]

Blizzard eventually paid tribute to Leeroy within World of Warcraft itself creating the achievement 'Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!', which awards the title of 'Jenkins' to players who kill 50 of the rookery whelps from the video within 15 seconds.^[13] Also, in the new expansion Warlords of Draenor, Leeroy returns as a non-player character and will join the player's garrison if they help him find the Devout Shoulders he was seeking in the video.^[14] Blizzard also added a 'Leeroy Jenkins' card to their popular online card game Hearthstone. When entering the battlefield, Leeroy gives his famous battle cry. While attacking, he says 'Time's up, let's do this!' And when he dies, he says, 'At least I have chicken.' In addition, the adventure mode 'Blackrock Mountain' added a new game board themed on the mountain. In the bottom right section, there is a pink tabard with a white heart lying on the ground, a reference to the guild Leeroy was in, <PALS FOR LIFE>.^[15]

Leeroy Jenkins went mainstream when he was mentioned as part of a clue on the November 16, 2005, episode of the game show Jeopardy! as part of their college week tournament, though no contestant rang in.^[16] The meme spread further in 2009 when the Armed Forces Journal published an article titled 'Let's Do This!: Leeroy Jenkins and the American Way of Advising'. The article, by Capt. Robert M Chamberlain links Jenkins to the American approach to advising the indigenous armed forces in Iraq.^[17]

Other appearances[edit]

• In the episode 'Little Bad Voodoo Brother' of My Name Is Earl, Randy charges out to 'fight thirty people at once' while shouting 'Leeroy Jenkins!'^[18]
• In several episodes of Heroes Reborn, Miko and Ren shout out 'Leeroy Jenkins!' as going into battle.^[19]
• In the episode 'Last Night Gus' of Psych, protagonist Shawn affirms one Leeroy Jenkins to be their new prime suspect by yelling the name.^[20]
• In the episode 'Veteran Guy' of Family Guy, Peter Griffin makes a plan to subdue some terrorists on a boat; however, Cleveland opts for a Leeroy Jenkins strategy and shouts 'Leeroy Jenkins!' while rushing their foes, resulting in an extended clip that parodies the Jenkins video.^[21]
• In the book Armada, by Ernest Cline, the protagonist Zack Lightman is accused of being a Leeroy Jenkins by his friends in video game space dogfights. Later in the book he shouts 'Leeroy Jenkins' while committing a headlong assault referencing the same character from the Blizzard universe.^[22]
• In the episode 'Chapter 5: Do Your Job' of Barry, Taylor ignores Barry's plans and jumps into a room of henchmen while yelling 'Leeroy Jenkins!'^[23]
• The United States Air Force Pararescue (PJs) use this sound bite to notify them of an upcoming medevac mission on the show Inside Combat Rescue.^[24]
• In the episode Murtaugh of How I Met Your Mother, Barney yells 'Alright chums, let's do this. Barney Stinson!' (mimicking the Leeroy war cry) after shaking on the gentleman's agreement with Ted.
• In the video game 'Borderlands 2' as a random encounter 'Loot Midget' that emerges from certain loot sources.

References[edit]

1. ^Warcraftmovies user 'Leeroy' (May 11, 2005). ''Leeroy!!''. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
2. ^Scott Conrad VanderWoude. 'About the group from the Leeroy Jenkins video - Toogam'. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
3. ^ ^abcJoel Warner. 'The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins'.
4. ^Abduhl (May 10, 2005). 'WoW BlueTracker: UBRS (vid) Rookery Overpowered! blue please'. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
5. ^'My ROFLCon Weekend: Breakfast with Tron Guy'. The Bryant Park Project. National Public Radio.
6. ^Anf Pal (2017-12-22), Leeroy Jenkins First Take/Dry Run (NEW), retrieved 2017-12-26
7. ^Schreier, Jason (December 25, 2017). 'The Makers Of 'Leeroy Jenkins' Didn't Think Anyone Would Believe It Was Real'. Kotaku. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
8. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. WoW TCG Browser. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
9. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. HearthStone Wiki. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
10. ^'World of Warcraft Minis Checklist (Alliance specs & attributes)'. 27 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
11. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. World of Warcraft Miniatures Game Checklist. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
12. ^Pearson, Craig (August 2005). 'The Ballad of Leeroy Jenkins'. PC Gamer UK.
13. ^Amanda Miller (2008-10-14). 'Five easy achievements you can snag right now'. WoWInsider. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
14. ^'Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy..?'. Wowhead.
15. ^Clark, Tim (November 12, 2014). 'Time's up for Leeroy Jenkins as Blizzard finally nerf him and Starving Buzzard'. PC Gamer. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
16. ^Jeopardy! November 16, 2005. Jeopary! round: Computer gaming category - 1000$. J! Archive. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
17. ^Chamberlain, Robert (June 19, 2009). 'Let's Do This! Leeroy Jenkins and the American way of advising'. Retrieved 2009-06-19.(registration required)
18. ^'WoW Archivist: The legacy of Leeroy Jenkins'. Engadget. AOL.
19. ^'Review: 'Heroes Reborn' Feels Like NBC Drunk-Dialing an Old Ex'. ScreenCrush.
20. ^'Leeroy Jenkins, Yes That Leeroy Jenkins Gets a Prime Time Name Check'. Kotaku.
21. ^Hayner, Chris (April 2, 2018). 'Family Guy Goes Full World Of Warcraft With Leeroy Jenkins Scene'. GameSpot. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
22. ^'Armada Quotes by Ernest Cline(page may vary as liked)'. www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
23. ^Bramesco, Charles (April 22, 2018). 'Barry Recap: Shakespeare's Whiff'. Vulture. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
24. ^'Inside Combat Rescue with Leeroy Jenkins'. Archived from the original on 2017-07-23.

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