Photos from open City Hall Van Meter’s City Hall sources Iowa took desperate measures to replenish the treasury. IN a town with a population of just over a thousand people organized a lottery with a very unusual prize. The one to get a lucky ticket, will be able to electric shock municipal official.
In order to participate in the draw, you must buy a lottery ticket for five dollars. All collected funds will go to the needs of the police. The draw will take place on Saturday, July 18th. Nominated for the role of the victim head of the local fire station, Bob Lacey, and mayor Jacob Anderson. The winner of the lottery will be awarded a non-lethal stun gun using whom he, under the supervision of an experienced cop, will be able to hit current of one of the officials.
According to the mayor, it’s unlikely that anyone will want to shock the fireman, therefore, it is obvious that the unenviable fate will befall him – urban chapter. Anderson fully agrees to this procedure, because, firstly, he is distinguished by excellent health, including hearty, and, secondly, Van Meter urgently needs funds for police station maintenance. If responsible for this problem will not be the mayor, then who?
It is noteworthy that the residents of the city reacted to the draw with a large enthusiastic and already sold out all the tickets. True, those who did this openly admit to reporters that they do not intend in case winnings take the opportunity to legitimately inflict official shock. The lottery poured rather into the fun that many responded with their wallet precisely because of the wit of this ideas, but not out of a desire to click the mayor with an electroshocker …
By the way, this is not the only case when financial problems solved in such an unusual way, for example, in Japan, money for the maintenance of a small railway station found even more original: cat Tama became her boss, which quickly attracted the attention of tourists, and with them the necessary facilities.
