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A Well-Planned Retirement

From The London Times: May 15, 2009

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 with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches were charged at £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..."

"No", said the Council, when contacted,".....that parking lot is totally your responsibility."

"No, it isn't", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the parking attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"

"NO! He was NOT" insisted the Council.

So, sitting in his lovely villa possibly somewhere on the South Coast of Spain, is a happy 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 real name!