Report Your Local Pusher

Report Your Local Pusher The Wild West bounty system that put a price on men's heads and waited for others to collect has its modern applications. The Tampa, Fla., Chamber of Commerce initiated a "Turn in a Pusher" program almost six months ago, and the response has been a combination of Gunsmoke and James Bond.

A code name is given each caller, and an elaborate payoff system involving a clandestine rendezvous is used to reward the anonymous informant. The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere is apparently part of the program's lure. Said the program head: "People are interested in that type of thing--code names, secret drops. There's a little / Spy in all of us."

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