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A great way to retire!!
A great way to retire!!
06-10-2010 8:23 AM
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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.
Luvely Jubbly!!!!!
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06-10-2010 9:43 AM
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06-10-2010 10:33 AM
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Some enterprising lads got reels of tickets and charged £5 a car, parking fee - needless to say it was actually free.
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06-10-2010 10:51 AM
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Quote from: jmdlp From an email I was sent!
It's an urban legend. It always is.

http://tinyurl.com/l7qbkt
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06-10-2010 11:06 AM
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06-10-2010 11:27 AM
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06-10-2010 1:58 PM
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a guy living off the earnings from a car park he didn't own.
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06-10-2010 3:39 PM
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I know of one council that had 2 parking supervisors many moons ago.. They used to empty the P&D machines daily and take the money away to the bank. One day both accidentally called in sick so the staff wondered what to do. They got the keys, went and collected the cash themselves and took it to the finance department who then asked "Wheres this from then and how come we've never seen it before?" - The scam had been going on over 10 years. Needless to say both got busted by the fuzz.
I could tell you others.. which are from credible sources but I'd prefer not to give away too much about myself..
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06-10-2010 4:53 PM
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