Poo Wifi
 

Internet portal Terra has found an innovative way to reward conscientious dog owners: free Wi-Fi for those that clean up after their pooch.
The company is piloting a program in 10 parks in Mexico City that works like this: When dog owners throw away their excrement in a special box, the device calculates the weight and then gives everyone in the park free Wi-Fi for a period (usually a few minutes.) Of course, there?s a way to rig the program by tossing garbage in the box instead of poo, but the ad agency behind the effort, DDB Mexico, told Creativity Online that it?s fine if people are cleaning trash from the park to access the service. However, during the day, hostesses stand by the boxes handing out poop bags to ensure that the device is being used as promised.

Terra and DDB Mexico aren?t the first to experiment with Wi-Fi as a social engineering mechanism. During South By Southwest, ad agency BBH encouraged attendees to give money to the homeless via ?Homeless Hotspots? that rewarded donations with free wireless Internet service.

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They have WiFi in Mexico?

Most dog owners do pick up after their pets. Some people even shine a flashlight to help them see the poo in the dark of night. They hand out poop bags, that's interesting. Seems like a hard chore to take care of a pet. Is a dog really valuable - seems these dogs cost $1,000s of dollars... A man's best friend... Shit together..

Hostesses handing out poop bags ?

They are basically the people that got rejected from macdonalds, im not sure if these poop bag assistants are worthy of handling my dogs turds.

it's not really a huge chore to pick up the poop. Some people think they're above it in my neighborhood, and it drives me crazy.

Hullo... :thumbsup

You really shouldn't need to reward dog owners for doing something they should be doing anyway...

Mexico......it's a totally other dimension!

Where everybody tosses their garbage.......and diapers on the highway.....never mind picking up after the dog............

Seems you have not really been to mexico.

anway.

Its not illegal to leave the poo on the ground and its amazing how many people actually clean up anyway.

i like wifi...

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