No harm in dropping your wallet in this toilet

CHAUNCEY, Ohio (AP) -- A citizens' group is trying to pay the street light bill with a little potty humor.
The Chauncey Emergency Management Group places an old-fashioned, wooden outhouse on a resident's lawn with a donation box where the toilet bowl should be and a sign on the door that says "Redneck Wishing Well."
People who find the latrine in their yard have to chip in to get it shipped out. They also get to pick the next home it graces.
The emergency management group's Jerry Dowler, whose phone number is posted inside the outhouse, hauls the privy in his pickup truck.
The money -- donations of any size are acceptable -- helps cover the southeast Ohio village's $500-a-month bill for street lights. Voters defeated a tax levy last year, and a committee that gets money from local cable TV bingo has paid the bill since then.
In its first two days, the outhouse collected $200, Dowler said. The primary purpose of the emergency management group, which is made up of village officials and citizens, is to keep the lights on.
The emergency management group takes over the bill this month, and the levy is on the ballot again in the fall. If passed, enough money to pay the bill would not be generated for about a year, Mayor Fredricka Shover said.
In the meantime, the group has raised about $3,000 through bake sales, car washes and the outhouse.
"There's a lot of people who really care about Chauncey," said Ronnie McKibben, a member of the village council and the emergency management group. "There's a spirit in this community."