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Da IllFellaz

Knee Deep In Da Beats
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 125
Got this in my work email today:

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.​
 

Sucio

Old and dirty...
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 304
Yeah, but if the Zoo thought the City was responsible for the parking, they would've assumed that the parking fees were for the City, not the Zoo. So it probably slipped their mind..


If this is true...WOW DUDE BEAT THE SYSTEM IN THE HEAD.
 

LDB

Banned
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 73
this shit is totally believable. no one would think of being scammed in that way. Especially at a Zoo!!!! If it was a "professional" looking scam (Uniform, machine etc etc) like it reads I could see it going off without a hitch.

People do similar shit like this all the time in Atlanta around football season. They stake out a parking lot that they know people will try and park at when tailgating and 10% of the time that they don't own the lot in which they are collecting money for you to park. The fans just want to find parking so they never even question whether or not it's legit.
 

LDB

Banned
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 73
i can see it goin down if it started 25 yrs ago, when things were more "lax" but dude is dedicated to be comin in everyday... but my ass wouldve quit after a few grand... prolly 50 - 100.

da relic
a 500 dollar a day gig is "SWEET", I think I would have milked it for couple decades as well.
 

Sucio

Old and dirty...
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 304
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