Your government could be worse

You could live in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, after all.

As a solution to the high incidences of "killing, extortion, kidnapping and inter-caste wars," the city government has decided to paint every building in the city pink:

Officials say the idea of painting the city pink originated from the dominant Rajput community, who migrated from the western state of Rajasthan where the capital, Jaipur is known as the pink city of India.

"Only a few buildings (in Jaipur) bear the pink colour. Aurangabad will actually be the country's real pink city," said Arvind Kumar Singh, a senior government official overseeing the work who is also a Rajput.

With the city's 2 million residents complaining about poor quality of life and depression due to crime, officials said they had decided to paint the city pink ahead of the Hindu festival of light, Diwali, on October 21.

How's that for government inaction?

I'm just waiting for Dear Leader Nickels to try the same thing in Seattle. . .