Don't you just love it?!!!

[bullfright]

Can this really be true?
A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:

TRUE STORY

Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking
lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a
ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and
coaches £5 (about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25
years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.
"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better
phone up the City Council and get them to send a new
parking attendant . . . "
"Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your
responsibility."
"Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the
attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't
he?"
"Err . . . no!" insisted he's not one of my employees said the Council.
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)!
TAX FREE!

And no one even knows his name!

[acmegridley]

Just goes to show, keeping your mouth shut and pockets open pays dividends

[snowyskiesau]

A good story but not true.

Check it out here.

[AlexS]

A similar story went around years ago about a bloke who used to do a similar thing to foreign tourists parking near the leaning tower of Pisa. Apparently, while they thought they were paying for parking, when someone had the writing on the ticket translated, they found they had bought not parking, but insurance against damage should the tower fall.

[glenn k]

Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story (works for current affairs programs). Bullfright your conversion rates are a bit out now £1 = $2 more of less.