Tounge, firmly in cheek, Clyde Haberman says:
Perhaps the time has come for even more creative [tax collection] measures, like those tried recently by the authorities in Rajahmundry, a city in southern India. They hired drummers to bang away nonstop outside the homes of property-tax deadbeats. The [Purim]-style tactic worked. A single week of constant drumming was enough to clear 18 percent of the tax backlog.
