Mount Calvary Sermons

EASTER DAY 2016 LUKE 24:1-12As every parent, law enforcement officer, and township employee knows there are two ways to make people clean up after themselves. You can be the bad cop. You can nag, organize a guilt trip, make blood curdling threats of fines, time-outs, or even jail. Or you can be the good cop, and encourage responsible behavior by positive reinforcement. Well, a few years ago a city in the Netherlands went full good cop in an effort to tackle their litter problem. Down came the threatening signs warning of fines for litter louts, and in came new bins. Bins with a difference. Bins that would make it worthwhile to drop your empty chip packets into them. The bins did not give out money if that is what you’re thinking, materialists. No, these bins were programed to tell jokes. Inside each trash can was a little device that would play pre-recorded funnies every time a piece of garbage was deposited. And it worked. The litter problem was solved overnight. Now these bins were color coded accordi