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 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 (presumably), is a
man who had been taking the parking-lot fees, estimated at £400 (about
$560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming seven days
a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million - or
$280,000 every year for 25 years)!
And no one even knows his name!