pandora wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:11:50 -0400, Cliff wrote:

[
*From The London Times:*

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 carrying a ticket
machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches
A£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 emplo yed 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 A£400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25
years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to
just over A£3.6
million ($7 million)!
And no one even knows his
name!
]

Now THAT's funny! :-)

It's also untrue . Snopes sez so ...
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp
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pandora wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:11:50 -0400, Cliff wrote:

[
*From The London Times:*

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 carrying a ticket
machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches
A£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 emplo yed 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 A£400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25
years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to
just over A£3.6
million ($7 million)!
And no one even knows his
name!
]

Now THAT's funny! :-)

It's also untrue . Snopes sez so ...
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp
--
Snag
every answer
leads to another
question




Cliff does not care if true or not.