The Most Unexpected Twist Ever
In 1902, in Hanoi, Vietnam (French Indo-China), the rat population had increased tremendously, which prompted the desperate French colonial government to start a bounty program that paid a reward for each rat killed. To collect the bounty, people would need to provide the severed tail of each rat killed. That would be a scrupulous task to do. First, capture them, then kill them and sever their tails.

Unfortunately, the hopes of the colonial government to get rid of rats shattered when there was no effect on the rat population. Rather, colonial officials started spotting rats with no tails in Hanoi. Quite surprising, isn’t it?

The Vietnamese rat catchers would capture rats, sever their tails and then release them so that they could procreate and produce more rats in order to carry on the same process, thereby increasing the revenue of the rat-catchers. In fact, some even started to raise rats to earn a bounty. Those rat-catchers were indeed clever.

Thereafter, the French were forced to scrap this Bounty program.
['Raghav Khanna']
['Vietnam', 'Cobra Effect', 'History', 'India']