Casual labor at Bristol Zoo

[Shark_Bait]

A TRUE STORY:

 

Outside Bristol Zoo there is a car park for 150 cars and 8 coaches.

 

There also used to be a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5.

 

 

This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years , then one day just didn't turn up for work...

 

 

"Ho hum", said Bristol Zoo Management - "better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant" ......

 

"Err no", said the Council, "that car park is your responsibility" ...

 

 

"Err no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?" .....

 

 

"Err NO!"

 

Sitting in his villa in Spain is a bloke who had been taking daily the car park fees amounting to an estimated £400 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years....

 

Assuming 7 days week, this amounts to 3 million six hundred & forty thousand pounds.

[midlifecrisis]

...and techincally not embezzled from the city - who owned the land? They may owe back taxes!

[ajsp9]

A TRUE STORY:

 

Outside Bristol Zoo there is a car park for 150 cars and 8 coaches.

 

There also used to be a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5.

 

 

This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years , then one day just didn't turn up for work...

 

 

"Ho hum", said Bristol Zoo Management - "better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant" ......

 

"Err no", said the Council, "that car park is your responsibility" ...

 

 

"Err no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?" .....

 

 

"Err NO!"

 

Sitting in his villa in Spain is a bloke who had been taking daily the car park fees amounting to an estimated £400 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years....

 

Assuming 7 days week, this amounts to 3 million six hundred & forty thousand pounds.

 

 

Well well well, I live 400 metres from bristol Zoo and never knew of this (not that I should, though) !!

 

Where is the story published and/or authenticated?

 

http://criswarren.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-urban-myths.html

Edited May 9, 2009 by ajsp9

[Shark_Bait]

Well well well, I live 400 metres from bristol Zoo and never knew of this (not that I should, though) !!

 

Where is the story published and/or authenticated?

 

http://criswarren.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-urban-myths.html

 

 

Sorry cant confirm it, you see it as I received it, thats why its in the humour section not the news section DUH!!!

Edited May 9, 2009 by Shark_Bait