Category: News and Views
Funny! Wonder if it's true?
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Article From the London Times: "Well-Planned Retirement"
Outside England's Bristol Zoo 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 buses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 continuous years of never missing a day of work, the attendant didn't show up for work. After a couple day, the Zoo Management
company called the City Council and asked them to send another parking attendant.
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 or... 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.
The Zoo is open 7 days a week, so this amounts to just over $7 million dollars..........and no one even knows his name.
Wow. That's awesome. He's enjoying life somewhere I bet.
I'm just impressed that any human being, no matter how savvy, was able to collect $560 a day in a country that uses pounds Sterling. *Grin*. Sorry to burst the bubble of hope Becky but at the very least this story has been adjusted because the London times is hardly likely to have given amounts in dollars and in all likelihood, it is just completely fabricated. But maybe not. There is always hope...
Dan.