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From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement
A perfect example of government mismanagement.



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.
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Love it!
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Brilliant! Looks on ebay for a ticket dispenser
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Brilliant! Looks on ebay for a ticket dispenser
... and a completely incompetent organisation working in an area with a totally useless Council. About as likely as winning the lottery, but we'd all love to have done it...
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thats brillant
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It is fantastic and I hate to be the one to do this but http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/...l/article.html
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On the Munich airport they have a viewpoint on a small artificial hill.
And there indeed someone collected money.But not for long before it was recognized an superseded by an official toll turnstile.

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why are all the good storys always fake!
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Because the press never like the facts to get in the way of a good story!! If you want to know how crap the press really are, and have a good few laughs as well, get Private Eye.
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