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Thread ID: 101350	2009-07-11 04:33:00	Nice Retirement Package........	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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790836	2009-07-11 04:33:00	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 £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 . :lol::blush::rolleyes::punk	SurferJoe46 (51)
790837	2009-07-11 04:56:00	I hope you dont send money to Nigeria yank when you get an email. www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Urban-myth-Bristol-Zoo-parking-attendant/article-1073841-detail/article.html	prefect (6291)
790838	2009-07-11 05:07:00	It may be an urban myth, but since normally one bureaucracy doesn't know what another is doing, it's an entirely plausible one...	johcar (6283)
790839	2009-07-11 09:50:00	It may be an urban myth, but since normally one bureaucracy doesn't know what another is doing, it's an entirely plausible one... www.snopes.com	Strommer (42)
790840	2009-07-11 10:01:00	We've had real life examples of this in Wellington. Remember a few years ago when the airport parking attendant had so much money stashed in his house..... and last week the nine bus drivers who had collected hundreds of thousands....... and so it goes on. I can remember years ago when more than twenty post office employees who collected from coin phone boxes had a really great scam worth thousands..... We don't need fiction.... :2cents:	Scouse (83)
790841	2009-07-12 05:44:00	Some times - one just WANTS to believe a story like this . Kinda like finding a great scam that works and the perp gets away Scott-free . Like the guy who (in the US) went to his bank and took a few hundred of the customer deposit slips . We use them here to shorten the load and time it takes the tellers to normally fill these papers out, listing the checks, the routing numbers and dollar amounts and then we let the tellers total the transaction and PENDING confirmation of the checks being deposited, then the account is credited with the amount on the form the next day or so . So -- this guy takes the stack of these deposit slips home and computer imprints his account number in barcode on the bottom of the form and the bank's optical scanners pick up HIS account number and deposits the money into HIS account . He got away with it for years until the bank had such a negative cash flow that they did some serious investigations and found out what he'd done . Too late, he was gone to a non-extradition treaty country and is still there - fat and wealthy . I am only fortunate to find the occasional dime or quarter in a pay phone booth .	SurferJoe46 (51)
790842	2009-07-12 05:49:00	It may not be true, but it SHOULD be. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
790843	2009-07-12 06:22:00	....I am only fortunate to find the occasional dime or quarter in a pay phone booth. LUXURY!! When I was a lad, we didn't even have phone booths! We had to use two tin cans and a piece of string. And 't tin cans weren't tin - they were old toilet paper roll centres, stolen from 't local posh hotel. And the string wasn't string - we 'ad to get a dead cat from 't tip and use the cat gut! (you'll have to imagine the Yorkshire accent...) :)	johcar (6283)
790844	2009-07-12 07:36:00	You had a tip ! ! ? ? Spoilt rotten.	R2x1 (4628)
790845	2009-07-12 08:43:00	I am only fortunate to find the occasional dime or quarter in a pay phone booth. You mean to say you still have them?:rolleyes:	mikebartnz (21)
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