- From The London Times Newspaper -
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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 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)!
And no one even knows his name.
Why didn't I think of that?!
7/13/09 - Okay, so I acknowledge that it's an urban myth - but didn't you enjoy it anyway? CH
Comments
A fun story, but it's an urban myth according to the Bristol Zoo's own web site.
It's nothing but an urban myth.
google "Touted as a genuine news article, the tale of a Bristol Zoo parking attendant who lined his own pockets"
It's an Urban Legend
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