no trash pick-up for a week
Here in Scotland, policy is implemented quite differently. It's just, well, more blunt.
For example, tv ads that talk about drinking and driving kills paints the picture boldly by showing a little girl crossing the street and getting run over by a drunk driver. Or the signs on highways that say, "alcohol kills", or "x amount of people have died on this highway due to drunk drivers". Cigarettes say "smoking kills", or "you can die from this". It's bold, and in some cases extreme.
So, I found their response to littering to be fairly consistent with their advertising of other vices.
Apparently there is a problem with littering. So, the local council has decided a unique approach to "curing" people of this bad habit. For a week, starting tomorrow, the council will not clean the streets. Instead, it will let the trash pile up in public places as a way of shocking people into using the trash bins.
I wonder if they had a team of monkeys working around the clock to come up with that rediculous idea.
An op-ed piece responded appropriately: "counsilers in the city should refuse to attend committee meetings for a year to show their citizens how much worse life would be if the council did not exist. Of course, the council might need to advertise that it was not meeting, in case the voters did not notice the difference." What a response.
In all seriousness, do they really think that's going to "shock" all the litter criminals?
I don't understand policy decisions sometimes, I guess that's why I'm doing my graduate work in it:)
For example, tv ads that talk about drinking and driving kills paints the picture boldly by showing a little girl crossing the street and getting run over by a drunk driver. Or the signs on highways that say, "alcohol kills", or "x amount of people have died on this highway due to drunk drivers". Cigarettes say "smoking kills", or "you can die from this". It's bold, and in some cases extreme.
So, I found their response to littering to be fairly consistent with their advertising of other vices.
Apparently there is a problem with littering. So, the local council has decided a unique approach to "curing" people of this bad habit. For a week, starting tomorrow, the council will not clean the streets. Instead, it will let the trash pile up in public places as a way of shocking people into using the trash bins.
I wonder if they had a team of monkeys working around the clock to come up with that rediculous idea.
An op-ed piece responded appropriately: "counsilers in the city should refuse to attend committee meetings for a year to show their citizens how much worse life would be if the council did not exist. Of course, the council might need to advertise that it was not meeting, in case the voters did not notice the difference." What a response.
In all seriousness, do they really think that's going to "shock" all the litter criminals?
I don't understand policy decisions sometimes, I guess that's why I'm doing my graduate work in it:)
posted by dcschmiddy at 5:28 PM
2 Comments:
dave, i've tried doing this in my own home to make a point(not doing dishes for a week, etc.)! doesn't work! :)
Hilarious, I LOVE IT!
I hate to rain on the parade, but Wash DC has been doing this for the past 8 years in my neighborhood... :)
JS
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