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Well down in South East Asia there is a little island called Singapore. And on this island they have something called Electronic Road Pricing(ERP), which charges you $2 or more every time you drive through a gantry during rush hour (which translates to about half of the entire day).
Surely you can find a route to your destination without one? Not exactly, these gantries are EVERYWHERE. One is actually right smack on a street directly outside some poor chap's house, so he has to PAY the government to drive OUT of his house and again to drive back in.
Well recently the government has been talking about this, and apparantly they think this extortion isn't enough! They say that they're going to track every local car with GPS satellites and, I'm not making this up here, charge folks based on how far they drive. So essentially everyone's taking a taxi everywhere.
I have no idea if they truely mean to enforce this, or if this is some late april fools joke, or someone in the government made a really bad typo, or if someone's writing stories about photoshopped images again (and passing them off as the truth), or if this is some tax collector's published fanfiction. All I know is this is one of the dumbest things I've heard this year.
Anyway, what are some of the weirdest or stupidest things that someone (or someones) said they were going to do?
Well down in South East Asia there is a little island called Singapore. And on this island they have something called Electronic Road Pricing(ERP), which charges you $2 or more every time you drive through a gantry during rush hour (which translates to about half of the entire day).
Surely you can find a route to your destination without one? Not exactly, these gantries are EVERYWHERE. One is actually right smack on a street directly outside some poor chap's house, so he has to PAY the government to drive OUT of his house and again to drive back in.
Well recently the government has been talking about this, and apparantly they think this extortion isn't enough! They say that they're going to track every local car with GPS satellites and, I'm not making this up here, charge folks based on how far they drive. So essentially everyone's taking a taxi everywhere.
I have no idea if they truely mean to enforce this, or if this is some late april fools joke, or someone in the government made a really bad typo, or if someone's writing stories about photoshopped images again (and passing them off as the truth), or if this is some tax collector's published fanfiction. All I know is this is one of the dumbest things I've heard this year.
Anyway, what are some of the weirdest or stupidest things that someone (or someones) said they were going to do?
