Alec Swan
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Whilst I haven't actually read it, this was in the Times, so I'm told.......
Outside Bristol Zoo is a parking area for 150 cars and 8 coaches. For 25 years there was a most pleasant and unassuming parking attendant. Cars were charged £1.40 and coaches £7.
Then, one day the attendant didn't show up for work. He had never missed a day for 25 years. The Zoo management 'phoned the City Council and requested a fresh member of staff.
The Council did a bit of research, and replied that the Attendant was the responsibility of the Zoo.
The Zoo replied by saying that the man concerned was definitely a City employee.
The Council then came back with the fact that this man had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting on the veranda of a Spanish, or Italian villa, is a man who'd had a ticket machine installed, his own little garden shed, at the entrance, and he'd simply turned up for work every day, taken the parking fees, estimated at £560 per day, and then pocketed it!
The best bit is that no one even knew his name. It's been computed by some one, that he had somewhere in excess of £7 million!
What a result!!
Alec.
Outside Bristol Zoo is a parking area for 150 cars and 8 coaches. For 25 years there was a most pleasant and unassuming parking attendant. Cars were charged £1.40 and coaches £7.
Then, one day the attendant didn't show up for work. He had never missed a day for 25 years. The Zoo management 'phoned the City Council and requested a fresh member of staff.
The Council did a bit of research, and replied that the Attendant was the responsibility of the Zoo.
The Zoo replied by saying that the man concerned was definitely a City employee.
The Council then came back with the fact that this man had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting on the veranda of a Spanish, or Italian villa, is a man who'd had a ticket machine installed, his own little garden shed, at the entrance, and he'd simply turned up for work every day, taken the parking fees, estimated at £560 per day, and then pocketed it!
The best bit is that no one even knew his name. It's been computed by some one, that he had somewhere in excess of £7 million!
What a result!!
Alec.
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