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You fell for another made up story (like Craig Shergold).<br>
You can look these up, and see they're fake,<br>
but sadly, they keep coming back as true, from people who don't fact
check. :-(<br>
<br>
Funny, if it were true,<br>
not so funny that people don't point out it's just a hoax.<br>
<br>
Doug Lee wrote:
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Do you know of any unattended, publicly owned parking lots that need
caring for?
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Subject: Entrepreneur at its best
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A Well-Planned Retirement
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[IMAGE]
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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
<br>
attendant. The fees were 1 ticket for cars ($1.40), 5 tickets for buses
(about $7).
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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
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asked it to send them another parking agent.
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The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the
Zoo's own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the
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attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot
attendant had never been on the City payroll.
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Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain , or
France , or Italy... is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine
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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
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about $560 per day -- for 25 years.
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Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million
dollars ...... and no one even knows his name.
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<br>
I think this is my favorite E-Mail ever
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