Funding Angrier Babushkas

Rigas Satiksme, the Riga municipal public transport company, is seeking permission from the city to increase public transport fares 20 cents to LVL 0.60. Transport officials say the funds will go to seek out even bigger, angrier conductors with sour dispositions to ride busses, trolleys and trams collecting fares from passengers who would not otherwise pay. The city also briefly considered thinner conductors paired with attack German Shepherds, but pilot tests found this tactic merely served to sexually arouse riders who were regular viewers of James Bond films.