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Postby bunglemark2 » Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:58 pm

From The London Times:

> A Well-Planned Retirement

Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years,it's parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (1.40),for buses (about 7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.

The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.

The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy ...  Is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about 560 per day -- for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 7 million pounds ... And no one even knows his name.
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Postby metalhead » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:01 am

:O

that is awesome!
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Postby Red-er-Dare » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:16 am

Clever b@stard, fair play to him! :D
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Postby Reg » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:26 am

Didnt T&T do the same to us? ???
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Postby Red-er-Dare » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:44 am

Reg wrote:Didnt T&T do the same to us? ???

Not quite, he made a handsome profit.
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Postby rocky29 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:21 am

ye but hes missing out on tax credits by not declaring it  :D
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Postby GRAHAM01 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:36 am

it's not true mate i live a few miles away from bristol zoo and i have heard that story so many times but like i said there is not a grain of truth to it

would have been a very clever man though :D
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Postby worcester_red » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:54 pm

GRAHAM01 wrote:it's not true mate i live a few miles away from bristol zoo and i have heard that story so many times but like i said there is not a grain of truth to it

would have been a very clever man though :D

It would be impossible to pull that off for 25 years, at some point someone would check or he'd be ill or maybe they'd need to do repair work etc. Great idea though  :D
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Postby Judge » Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:13 pm

i do love the spanish sun out here :)
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