Like many cities, Taipei,
Taiwan, has a dog-litter problem that has proved unsolvable, as citizens
continue to ignore pleas to pick up after their dogs and keep sidewalks
clean. Finally, city officials designed a successful program (announced
in December): a dog-poop lottery. Anyone handing in a bag of dog litter
would get a ticket (one ticket per bag) to a drawing with prizes
ranging up to pieces of gold worth the equivalent of about $2,000.
(Citizens would be on the honor system as to whether the "litter" in the
bag came from a dog or from another source.) [Agence France-Presse via
Google News, 12-7-2011]
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