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Old 06-18-2009, 03:42 PM
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Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1. per car and £5.per coach.

On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.

The Council said "That car park is your responsibility." The Zoo said "The attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?" The Council said "What attendant?"

Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400 per day for 23 years
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Old 06-18-2009, 03:59 PM
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Brilliant! I wish I thought of that.
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Old 06-18-2009, 04:40 PM
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hahahahaha,ah!
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Old 06-18-2009, 05:02 PM
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We had a guy in Edmonton who emptied the meters and made well over a million a year by skimming the coins!
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Old 06-18-2009, 05:07 PM
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And the best part is, it was all tax free!
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Old 06-18-2009, 05:45 PM
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WOW ! 23 years, he really pushed the envelope there.
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Hehehe! Great story, but alas, just a story...

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp
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Old 06-18-2009, 06:24 PM
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Hehehe! Great story, but alas, just a story...

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp
Darn. Ya beat me to it Tony.
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