TAIPEI — An innovative scheme to keep the streets of northern Taiwan clean has seen thousands of citizens dutifully collecting bags of dog poop in the hope of winning $2,000 in gold.
More than 4,000 residents of New Taipei City, which surrounds the capital, have signed up for the competition since it was launched in early August, and have so far collected 14,000 bags of the stuff.
"The outcome of the campaign beat all our expectations," Lai Lien-chueh, from the city's environmental protection bureau, told AFP on Wednesday.
Those taking part in the scheme were given one lottery ticket for each bag of dog waste they collected, with the top prize in the draw including gold ingots worth around Tw$60,000 ($2,000).
Well, aint that some <snip>.....LOL
I wonder how many cheated and used some other sort of poooooooo.LOL
It's a <snip>ty deal,if you ask me!
That was gross, girl.
But funny.
Dang! Sully knows all the schemes.
You musta worked dealing with the general public.
Side note, I wonder how much they pay the guy who checks the bags.
LoL - good stuff sully!!
heaven only knows .......... but am sure its not enough by a long shot
Check your shoes!
Anybody else thinking Pumpi definitley had something to do with this?
You know, one of his "you could" lottery ideas!
no way ct, way to simple,LOL
what would be cool is now they have fake winners and start a new lottery for all trash.
next time you stand in dog poo it wont be " <snip>! it. "
it wll be " dammint ,i could have won with that pile of poop "
Some folks will do anything for money!
Perhaps, I could see someone reading his posts and coming up with the idea while they were trying to describe them.
a brilliant way to keep the streets clean of dog poop
however-finding people who litter and giving them fines of thousands of dollars would work much better
the fact is people do all kinds of annoying things
when they know the only punishment if they busted in the act is a simple slap on the wrist
I'm all for severe punishment to such people
Anyway giving away money for people to clean up the environment by far a good idea
if you have a little yorkie........1 ticket
if you have a golden retriever..2 tickets
great dane at least ...............3 tickets
That little island must really stink.
We should give it back to China and let them clean it up.
No, the article failed to mention that most of the problem in Northern Taiwan is an abundance of "wild dogs," not unmanaged pet dogs.