Any truth to this??

Stubs


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 641

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 19:19

Someone emailed me this and I was just wondering if it was true





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)

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 19:22

Probably an 'urban legend', but if true, you'd have to have a sneaking admiration for the guy!

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 19:24

well if the mps can do it so be it xx

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
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Message Posted:
05/06/2009 19:36

well done to the car park attendant ! imagine keeping that secret for 25 years !

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 20:38

fair play to him , at least he went to work everyday come rain or shine .

ilovekibris


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 20:40

He's sitting pretty in the TRNC not Spain, surely?

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 20:41

I bet they will install a pay & display machine this time!!

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 20:45

cor blimey!! i hope it's true...!! fair play!



DD

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
05/06/2009 21:10

Urban myth, I'd say. If not - bloody good luck to him! I seem to remember a very popular urban myth doing the rounds a while ago - about a penguin. Strange coincidence that that was about a zoo, too.



J

Agnes


Joined: 11/04/2009
Posts: 81

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 01:01

Hey you better watch out someone else has just posted your joke

colly


Joined: 31/07/2008
Posts: 297

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 01:34

Any truth? None at all I think you will find. Being doing the rounds for years this one.



http://criswarren.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-urban-myths.html



gives more myths about Bristol and how to spot them.



Col

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 09:12

Pity it is a myth, I was going to fill the empty job for a year or two!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
09/06/2009 09:16

This was posted yesterday, what a great Idea wished I had thought about it with all this empty land around me