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madfranks
4th March 2011, 07:16 PM
This gives me a good idea... ::)

Link Here (http://ggirish.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/from-the-london-times-a-well-planned-retirement/)

http://ggirish.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/parking.jpg?w=170&h=134

Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years,it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (£1.40),for buses (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 France or Italy … 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 pounds … and no one even knows his name.

General of Darkness
4th March 2011, 07:29 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Awesome.

mightymanx
4th March 2011, 07:31 PM
I think his name might have been John Gault

Hatha Sunahara
4th March 2011, 07:45 PM
Even the Romans admired the Brits for their creative genius.


Hatha

Publico Pro Se
4th March 2011, 08:03 PM
What's the matter with the guy? He should have sold the concession.

That reminds me - back when I was in high school there was a golf course-country club across the street from my house. They'd have big band dances on Wednesday evenings for the old folks, a more modern beat on Thursdays for the younger crowd, and proms and other high school dances on Friday and Saturday nights. A buddy and I painted up a couple of semi-professional signs with $2 parking. We'd set them up when we needed cash telling the money was going to pave the parking lot (it was gravel at the time). Well, the old folks were cheap bastards with the old men driving, usually blowing past us without paying and/or complain to the staff inside so we stop our Wednesday night collection game. With the younger crowd having no problem forking over $2. After a couple of times on Friday and Saturday night we'd bump up the price to $5 figuring what guy with his prom date would be cheap in front of her. Not wanting blowback we never did it for our high school events. This little gig lasted on and off for 3 years and paid for gas, booze, and other fun. When my mom found out what we were doing she loved it (of course she was from England) and so did the old man.

MNeagle
4th March 2011, 09:13 PM
Too clever! Priceless!