German alcoholics offered beer to clean city

[Forever Wort]

A German city is set to start a controversial project to pay alcohol and drug addicts to clean the streets in return for beer, tobacco, food and small amounts of cash ... people will sweep streets and collect rubbish in return for $1.50 an hour, a warm meal and three bottles of beer after their shift, as well as tobacco for smokers, reported the Die Welt newspaper.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/09/german-alcoholics-offered-beer-clean-city-2014930163617414943.html

Now that's an interesting idea.

 

[Dave70]

Wonder what they'll do with the public servants who already drink on the job?
I remember seeing a bunch of workers in their blue overalls knocking back half liters of Clausthaler at 9 am in Dresden one morning.
Very different culture in German society.