Author Topic: O/T Not bad if you can get it  (Read 3709 times)

Shoddys Lane

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O/T Not bad if you can get it
« on: June 27, 2009, 04:29:56 PM »
> > Froma recent Bristol Evening Post:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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?"
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> > 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...!
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> > total sum 2.9 million


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Re: O/T Not bad if you can get it
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2009, 05:17:11 PM »
Doh!  :-[
It was on Breakfast telly a few weeks ago. Doh! again.