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Amsterdam is keeping its streets in more ways than one. I mean, where else will you hear about a program that employs the local alcoholics to physically clean the streets and paying them in beer? Well, not JUST in beer – there is also tobacco, warm meals and a whole 10 euro per day.

And before anyone gets on their soap box, this is more an attempt to stop them being a nuisance in the park (keeping the streets clean is a welcome bonus) than curing these seasoned vets of their liquid demons. And even though there is no way our boring ass government would never consider an initiative like this, you have to admit it makes a whole lot of sense.

“I think I can speak for the group and say that if they didn’t give us beers then we wouldn’t come,” said Frank, one of the participants. Fair call, bro. He did add, however that it “gives our lives structure.”

[via AFP]