DC Is Second-Most Honest City
If you cut through the spin, how honest is DC, really? Apparently about 93%.
At least that’s what the folks at Honest Tea discovered when they put ice-cold bottles of organic tea, guarded only by a sign asking folks to pay $1, on a DC street on a hot summer day.
A hidden camera recorded the results, above.
Among the honest? A homeless man who proudly paid one dollar in change while expressing appreciation for the experiment and its belief in him.
So who was more honest than DC? Boston, at 93.3%. We beat out San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Comments
7 Responses to “DC Is Second-Most Honest City”
August 16th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
“Theoretically, people see money on the counter, and no one around, they think they’re being watched.”
August 16th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Obviously they did not place the bottles of Honest Tea anywhere near Capitol Hill and the folks in Congress.
I believe there would have been a very different result if the tea was placed in that location!
August 16th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
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August 16th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Brian, they actually placed it at Union Station, the closest station to the Senate side.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Wow, I didn’t see this in the local papers or the web.
We are a caring city, people come here to make a difference, so I would expect us to do well.
Good job Washingtonians!
August 17th, 2010 at 9:47 am
This is a different stand than the one inside Union Station–my colleagues and I walked over and got teas and paid our buck that day! Very cool social experiment.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
The experiment would have been far more telling and interesting if they had used an uncovered receptacle for collecting the cash, rather than a sealed receptacle.