Stranger than Fiction

I have to say up front that this is a true story - the article came directly from Reuters....

Garbage Trucks to Teach English
Wed Apr 3,10:27 AM ET
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Garbage trucks in the south Taiwan city of Tainan will soon broadcast English lessons from loudspeakers to educate citizens as they haul away the rubbish.

"Even grandmothers and grandfathers will be able to speak the most basic conversational English after listening for a few dozen times," the United Daily News newspaper quoted Tainan mayor Hsu Tain-tsair as saying. "This is Tainan's first step toward internationalization," Hsu said. Hsu said his wife came up with the idea for the educational garbage trucks.

The English-teaching garbage trucks are scheduled to hit the streets on September 1. Currently, Taiwan's garbage trucks call people out to the curb with their rubbish with a classical music refrain.

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- posted by tempusmaster @ 6:31 PM