Joy of living in a small city continued …

A few weeks ago I wrote of one of the joys of living in a small city.

We don’t need to keep a map of rat problems.

I recently read of this possible solution to rat problems.

A Berlin politician has come under fire for suggesting that poor people should be encouraged to catch rats by offering them €1 per dead rodent. The intriguing idea entails some gnawing practical problems and has been called “inhuman and cynical”.

“Especially people who usually collect bottles could get one euro for every dead rat,” Henner Schmidt, head of the business-friendly Free Democrat party in the Mitte district of Berlin, told Berliner Kurier newspaper this week.

I don’t call that “inhuman and cynical.”

I call that ingenuity.

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