The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sheila on July 29, 2009, 01:30:20 pm
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Why didnt I think of something like this?
A good idea, and it sounds like something that could happen with the current inept NSW government.
A Well-Planned Retirement - If true, then this is just BRILLIANT!
*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 with a ticket machine charging
cars £1 (about $ 3.00 and coaches £5 (about $ 15 )
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 $ 1,200 ) per day
at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to
just over £3.6 million ($ 10 million)!
And no one even knows his name.
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I heard about this a few weeks ago - absolutely bloomin' brilliant! Such initiative!
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Sounds like a syndicated us of a bovine deposit.
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Damn, i wish i'd thought of that first :D
10/10 just for the cheek of it
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Brilliant, how enterprising. My brother had a friend who was very confident and could get into anywhere as he was also well dressed. I remember an article about a man who squatted in a house in London, he sold it eventually as he claimed squatters rights and got loads (someone else would have read this in the paper) but he also gambled the money away. Another "con" was someone at an airport dressed as a security guard with a safe deposit box and a sign saying temporary deposit box or something similar, he stood next to the wall safe and said nothing but collected loads of cash!!!!! Dose anyone remember those 2 Australian women who said they were aristocrats and conned loads of rich and famous people, it was on TV a few years ago, I believe they liked a bet on the horses and rented some stately home without paying a bean!! Some con artists deserve what they get!!!!