knock it off

First I read this.
Naively, I thought to myself that it was a major bust and that mayor Bloomberg must really be cracking down. I thought that the face of Chinatown was changing for good, as of now. HA!, suuuuuure.

Then I saw this and I wondered why a tiny little freebie newspaper would be the only one to have the ironic side of the story. Maybe the big rags don't have time to follow up.

But Mayor Bloomberg looked really tough and accomplished and he had a moment in the sun. A time he could point to in future election runs to say "look how I led New York through that tumultuous knockoff crisis." And the people will applaud and cheer and he would stand by his record of sweeping up the city. All he needs now is a midget with a broom to walk around with him, reminding the fair citizens of our city what a clean, forthright metropolis we inhabit.

And then the theme song fades in and a cape, somewhere, is blowing in the wind.