A nice little earner!
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 Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:00 pm |
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| Jerry |
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Apparently, a true story...
Outside Bristol Zoo, there is a car park for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5. 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..."
"Er no", said the Council, "that car park is your responsibility"...
"Er no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"
... "Er NO!"
Sitting in his villa in Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the car park fees, estimated at £400 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years...
Assuming 7 days week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million... (tax free) |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:24 pm |
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| DANGAMAN |
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...and thats without interest...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:26 pm |
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| Zorba |
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Wish I thought of that.
Hey wait a minute, theres loads of little old men all over Limassol charging 2euros and up for parking in a field !
Dammit. |
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