The town giving sober teens free beer

How one town is tackling anti-social behaviour by rewarding sober party-goers with free drinks.

People in the Belgian town of Balen noticed more young people getting drunk, so they invented the "sobercoin".

It encourages people to arrive at parties sober - by rewarding them with free drinks.

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