Vacuna Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Obviously an incentive that is working in Taiwan - wonder if it would be successful here!!!!! Dog poop lottery draws in thousands Thursday, December 08, 2011 » 03:16am Thousands of Taiwan citizens are collecting bags of dog poop in the hope of winning $A2000 in gold. 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 $A2000 in gold. More than 4000 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, said 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 about $T60,000 ($A2000). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efowler Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Haha that's gold! I'm a serious competition enterer so I can relate LOl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Haha! That is genius!! Paris could do well with an incentive like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Haha! That is genius!! Paris could do well with an incentive like that. Paris could well do with a lottery for lazy bloody dog owners' to pick up after their own dogs' shit and chuck it in a bin rather than get everyone else to do it for them while they hang back and smoke a gauloise while out walking Chien Chien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Haha! That is genius!! Paris could do well with an incentive like that. Paris could well do with a lottery for lazy bloody dog owners' to pick up after their own dogs' shit and chuck it in a bin rather than get everyone else to do it for them while they hang back and smoke a gauloise while out walking Chien Chien Perhaps an entire lottery gift pack for anyone herding up lazy dog owners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esky the husky Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 (edited) That is brilliant! These kind of ideas go down really well. I remember at one music festival I went to if you collected 5 cans you could redeem them for 1 drink ticket. Drinks were about 3-5 tickets each. Cleanest concert I ever went to! Edited December 12, 2011 by Esky the husky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 That is brilliant forward thinking RE the drink bottle collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrubber Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The title suggested that someone who picked up the 'magic' pooh was going to win lotto. Now that would be a good laugh! Oz and China (mainland and taiwan alike) have gambling fever . . . and I guess that's as good a way as any to come to clean up on the dog pooh problem. I just wish there was a way to rub the offenders' faces in it :D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdogs Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Great idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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