[sheila]

 
 
 
 
 
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.
 

[doganjo]

I heard about this a few weeks ago - absolutely bloomin' brilliant!  Such initiative!

[carl]

Sounds like a syndicated us of a bovine deposit.

[Daveravey]

Damn, i wish i'd thought of that first   

10/10 just for the cheek of it

[sandy]

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!!!!