[Spridgets] Humour? - how to make real money

[Paul Herder]

I remember seeing this, for the first time, several years ago...

And then reading this:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp


-----Original Message-----
> From the Bristol Evening Post:
>
> "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 the last 23 years...!
>
> Total sum just short #2.9 million."
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