| From The  London Times:A  Well-Planned Retirement Outside  England's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150  cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking  fees were managed by a very  pleasant attendant.  The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for  busses (about $7). Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing  a day of  work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management  called the City Council and asked it to send  them another parking agent. The Council did some research and replied that the parking  lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. The Zoo  advised the Council that the attendant was a City  employee. The City  Council responded that the lot attendant had never  been on the City payrole. Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some  such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a  ticket  machine installed completely on his own; and then had  simply begun to show up every day, commencing to  collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per  day -- for 25 years. Assuming  7 days a week, this amounts to just  over $7  million dollars!  ..... And no one even knows his name. | ||
April 1, 2010
Humorous story about an enterprising crook
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Now that's entrepreneurship!
I love this story!
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