Pay Your Taxes, Pa-Rum-Pum-Pum-Pum....

[alwynsw]

<snip>Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.

After many residents ignored repeated demands to settle overdue property taxes. authorities in a city in Andhra Pradesh state have sent 20 groups of drummers to play outside offenders' houses for the past week.

"They put up a spectacle outside the houses of defaulters, draw them out and explain their dues to them and the need to clear it at the earliest," said T.S.R. Anjaneyulu, municipal commissioner of Rajahmundry city.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20050311/od_nm/odd_india_tax_dc

I wonder how fast the noise ordinance will get passed?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. ...

:silly:

[guitar man]

2. that would never work on me

I'd shoot the drummers if they stood outside my house beating those things. The rest of the band has a hard time keeping me from shooting the drummer most days anyway. ;)

[alwynsw]

3. rimshot

What do you call a drummer who just broke up with his girlfriend?

Homeless.

[guitar man]

4. how do you get a drummer off your porch?

pay for the pizza!

[guitar man]

5. encore

Q:why do drummers have just one more brain cell than a horse?

A: So they don't shit in the middle of the parade!

[Historic NY]

6. Speaking of drummers...what ever happened to the White house one

from some years back that always could be heard on CSPAN when they were doing a live shot. Sounded like he had those large kettle drums.

[guitar man]

7. probably outsourced

I think he's working for the Indian tax collectors now :)

[alwynsw]

8. probably his second job

after he gets off work at the Dell help desk