The Last Homely House
General => Council of Cobra => Topic started by: MuadDib85 on August 04, 2009, 11:12:21 PM
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A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
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> Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking lot for
150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
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> It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine
> charging cars ?1 (about $1.40) and coaches ?5 (about $7).
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> This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years.
Then,
> one day, he just didn't turn up for work
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> "Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd
better phone up the City
> Council and get them to send a new parking attendant . . . "
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> "Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot
is your
> responsibility."
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> "Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the
attendant was employed
> by the City Council, wasn't he?" "Err . . . no!"
insisted the Council.
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> Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably),
is a
> man who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at ?400
(about
> $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days
a
> week, this amounts to just over ?3.6 million ($7 million - or
$280,000
> every year for 25 years)!
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> And no one even knows his name.
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He gets all the money being brought in? :o
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He gets all the money being brought in? :o
He vanished after 25 years of pocketing parking ticket sales. XD
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If this is true, I hugely respect the man :lol:
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That can get me a whole playset (4 cards) of every single LOTR block and set. :O
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^^ Maybe.. lol
Seriously that is hilarious. Very impressive, if a bit risky and amoral. lol at 280 grand a year for collecting parking tickets. Hmm I'm looking for work...
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;D Funny story indeed.
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If this is true, I hugely respect the man :lol:
If this is true... I hugely want to meet the man...