Mr. Rolex Returns from the Olympics

During August I noticed that the fake Rolex and Mont Blanc peddlers and knock-off DVD salesmen disappeared from the sidewalks of Shanghai. But I didn't really pay much attention to it until they suddenly reappeared in mass on September 1st. Now, once again, foreigners can't walk down the street without being constantly interrupted by these purveyors of ripped-off intellectual property. Then it dawned on me that the government had made them all go away during the Olympics but allowed them back on the first day of September. This just shows that the government can shut down the counterfeiters if and when they want to.