Beer as Payment for clean streets...

[Skyviper]

A city pays alcoholics with beer to keep its streets clean. 

 

http://now.msn.com/alcoholics-paid-in-beer-to-clean-streets-in-amsterdam?ocid=ansnow11

[+JonathanRL]

I feel this is a Win-Win. They get what they would get anyway; and probably in a worse way and I bet they are loads cheaper then actual employees for the task.

[Capitaine Vengeur]

No wonder, I feel like most of democracies are run already by alcoholics. And we pay them much higer fees.

[Derk]

You forgot to mention that it is Amsterdam, that explains everything. And everything is possible here, but it simply looks like a workable slution and there is a lot of strange situations anyway over here (though not the sort of things some people in right wing USA seem to think )... . And by the way the people running  democracy in this town may not be alcoholics but indeed, they sure behave like drunks now and then       ....