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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hervey Bay
Posts: 4,195
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Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7). 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..." "Err ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility." "Err ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?" "Err ... NO!" insisted the Council. Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million)! And no one even knows his name. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Banned
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 326
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Guy deserves a pat on the back, no harm done.
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Budget Racer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,418
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Former BTIKD
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Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga. NSW.
Posts: 53,197
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Dying at your job is natures way of saying that you're in the wrong line of work.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 1,521
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"The story has been published on many blogs and forums on the internet and even caught the attention of the police after one person who read it made a complaint."
Bloody white knight...
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Me fail English? That's unpossible.
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