from Sunday's (5/18/008) SLATE: >A strange new economic indicator
emerges on the front page of the NY [TIMES]: the number of calls to
crime tip hotlines. These hotlines typically offer cash rewards for
tips leading to arrests, and so some communities have found the phones
are ringing off the hook, as hard times press more and more people
into turning in friends and neighbors. One source quips that in some
places squealing two or three times a week would pay better than a
minimum-wage job.<

heck, what happened to the old tradition of turning in one's parents
to the DEA?
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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