Can Do!
In an effort to stay a head of a cash crisis and to keep the streetlights on, an Ohio town has come up with plan. No Johnny-come-lately to creative fund raising, the town has found a way to raise a pot full of money. Those privy to the plan say there is a can do spirit in the village of Chauncey. Ah, the sweet smell of success!
To raise money, they put an outhouse on resident's lawns.
The Chauncey Emergency Management Group places an old-fashioned, wooden outhouse on a resident's lawn with a donation box where the toilet bowl should be and a sign on the door that says "Redneck Wishing Well."
People who find the latrine in their yard have to chip in to get it shipped out. They also get to pick the next home it graces.
The emergency management group's Jerry Dowler, whose phone number is posted inside the outhouse, hauls the privy in his pickup truck.
The money — donations of any size are acceptable — helps cover the southeast Ohio village's $500-a-month bill for street lights. Voters defeated a tax levy last year, and a committee that gets money from local cable TV bingo has paid the bill since then.
In its first two days, the outhouse collected $200, Dowler said. The primary purpose of the emergency management group, which is made up of village officials and citizens, is to keep the lights on.
Can Do, indeed!
By Black Jack, Thursday, 6 July , 2006 @ 12:04 pm
Abandon hope all ye who enter Chauncey. Representative government is doomed. Civic insanity prevails. Run for you lives boys, and let the devil take the hindmost, and don’t stop at the public convenience. It’s not what you think.