Thread: My new Hero

From The London Times:
A Well-Planned Retirement

Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40),
£5 for busses (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 some such scenario), 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 dollars!

......

And no one even knows his real name.

Brilliant scheme. To pull it off for so long, 25 years, raking in a few grand a week! Makes me wonder about those people chargin 10bt to park your motorbike on the side of the when there's a festival, market or whatever.

email forwards are moslty false - you should check snopes before you forward or paste them anywhere

snopes.com: Bristol Zoo Carpark Attendant

This has been doing the rounds for a while, most likely just an urban myth.

Originally Posted by melvbot

This has been doing the rounds for a while, most likely just an urban myth.

Originally Posted by baldrick

email forwards are moslty false - you should check snopes before you forward or paste them anywhere

snopes.com: Bristol Zoo Carpark Attendant

Thanks Captain Bring Downs

False or true it's still a fun story, I did check the London Times Archives and the story was there but being Scottish I was too cheap to pay the four pounds to read the whole thing. anyway have a little laugh because it is possible it could've happened and the scammer is now living in LOS

Originally Posted by melvbot

This has been doing the rounds for a while, most likely just an urban myth.

The Bristol car park one is a myth but the older one about the Clifton bridge is true