Trip Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Darn, why didn't I think of that?!! *A Well-Planned Retirement* *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 $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7). 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 A£400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million)! And no one even knows his name. Link to comment
Cat Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Good work, if you could get it. But no, this didn't happen. "A version of this story did appear in the Bristol Evening Post back in 2007, but it was as part of a feature on urban myths published to coincide with April Fool's Day, not as a reporting of a real life event." More here, including a man who tried it last month with a closed city-owned parking garage in Brooklyn. He got caught. http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp Link to comment
Trip Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Good work, if you could get it. But no, this didn't happen. "A version of this story did appear in the Bristol Evening Post back in 2007, but it was as part of a feature on urban myths published to coincide with April Fool's Day, not as a reporting of a real life event." More here, including a man who tried it last month with a closed city-owned parking garage in Brooklyn. He got caught. http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp Ya know Cat, in life I hate several things... for instance.. People who insist on driving the speed limit on a narrow, curvy, hilly road....hate em!! People who insist on trying to talk when I'm interrupting...really hate em!! But mostly it's people who confuse the fiction of something with facts... And last but not least...I hate Snoops, they take all the fun out of what "might" have been Link to comment
Necie Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Well, Trip...to make ya feel a bit better.... It DID happen here...a couple weeks ago...at a local bar....place was packed (prolly over capacity)....karoke...local hilljack stood beween the two entrance doors...charged $2 cover charge...made a couple hundred bucks...only a few friends know about it...I'm sure the owner of the place will hear about it...he'll think it's funny. So he got away with it. Link to comment
Cat Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Ya know Cat, in life I hate several things... for instance.. People who insist on driving the speed limit on a narrow, curvy, hilly road....hate em!! People who insist on trying to talk when I'm interrupting...really hate em!! But mostly it's people who confuse the fiction of something with facts... And last but not least...I hate Snoops, they take all the fun out of what "might" have been **pats Trip's arm...** I know, Sweetie. But it's also important to know the truth of things. God knows, there's plenty of lies out there enough. Snopes (as well as Google) isn't always true... they've been known to have a very definite political slant regarding things they'd LIKE to be. But I wouldn't *go* there for those kinds of things, anyway. Link to comment
Amishway Homesteaders Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 If you have enjoyed this little banter back and forth please put money in the cup I will collect all the money at the end of each day and forward it to trip for all the good jokes he posts. Link to comment
Trip Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Thanks but no thanks, Mz Luna would just take away from me...for my own good?? check that statement out on snoops...! Link to comment
Trip Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 If you have enjoyed this little banter back and forth please put money in the cup I will collect all the money at the end of each day and forward it to trip for all the good jokes he posts. By the way AH, go to the edge, I posted a good one there that the Censor police haven't killed yet...something about Vodka I think... Link to comment
ol'momma Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 "People who insist on trying to talk when I'm interrupting...really hate em!!" Dontcha tho? Link to comment
BiscuitMaker Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 I hate it when an eyewitness ruins a good story---that is usually my husband !!! Link to comment
ol'momma Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 If it's not my hubby "correcting" my story, it's usually Trip. Ain't that right Uncle B??? Link to comment
Amishway Homesteaders Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Don't you hate it when.................... You are trying to say something and that voice in your head will Are you talking about me! Oh great here we go again. I HEARD that! Well I was just trying to say tha Don't let him bother you just say what you want. NO, Not you too! I am going to Hey are we all here for a party I can bring the No it is not a party Michael is just trying to Hey I was here first, so if ANYBODY is going to tell what is going Well you might have been here first but I have been here the longest so I Oh my God, I just need to say a thing about Watch out here it coumes he going to tell all about why we SHUT UP! sorry Link to comment
Trip Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 If it's not my hubby "correcting" my story, it's usually Trip. Ain't that right Uncle B??? No babe, I usually use the truth to blackmail you later !!! Link to comment
Cat Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Don't you hate it when.................... You are trying to say something and that voice in your head will Are you talking about me! Oh great here we go again. I HEARD that! Well I was just trying to say tha Don't let him bother you just say what you want. NO, Not you too! I am going to Hey are we all here for a party I can bring the No it is not a party Michael is just trying to Hey I was here first, so if ANYBODY is going to tell what is going Well you might have been here first but I have been here the longest so I Oh my God, I just need to say a thing about Watch out here it coumes he going to tell all about why we SHUT UP! sorry (Remind me never to go to a gathering Michael attends... ) Link to comment
ol'momma Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Don't you hate it when.................... You are trying to say something and that voice in your head will Are you talking about me! Oh great here we go again. I HEARD that! Well I was just trying to say tha Don't let him bother you just say what you want. NO, Not you too! I am going to Hey are we all here for a party I can bring the No it is not a party Michael is just trying to Hey I was here first, so if ANYBODY is going to tell what is going Well you might have been here first but I have been here the longest so I Oh my God, I just need to say a thing about Watch out here it coumes he going to tell all about why we SHUT UP! sorry :24: Link to comment
ol'momma Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 No babe, I usually use the truth to blackmail you later !!! As if I've ever done anything worthy of blackmail. Link to comment
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