Lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky .... b*stard

[TouchSAFC]

Now THATS an entrepreneur !


From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement

A perfect example of government mismanagement.

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.

[luvulongtime]

sebastian

[dirty bristow]

Turban myth am afraid

[Basil Boli]

Balls of steel.

[Fishpie]

Heard it before mate, think its one of those feel good stories that never happened!!

[stmoo]

Nice story but false, I'm afraid.

Always go to snopes to check: http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp

[Stoke_Mackem]

Originally Posted by TouchSAFC

Now THATS an entrepreneur !


From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement

A perfect example of government mismanagement.

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.

Paul

[knarfw]

Utter cack.

[Sneech]

Originally Posted by TouchSAFC

Now THATS an entrepreneur !


From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement

A perfect example of government mismanagement.

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.

Heard this ages ago, is it not just an Urban Myth?

I once heard a story about someone who did the payroll for the US army, and skimmed off all the fractions of a cent that wasn't actually paid to the soldiers.

Made a tidy sum.

[ShoutyBearHead]

Originally Posted by Sneech

Heard this ages ago, is it not just an Urban Myth?

I once heard a story about someone who did the payroll for the US army, and skimmed off all the fractions of a cent that wasn't actually paid to the soldiers.

Made a tidy sum.

it's also the plot of Superman III