I like his style

[NI Phil]

From yesterdays Bristol Evening Post...

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 his ticket machine.

The charges are £1 per car and £5 per coach.

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.

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?"





Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking car park fees
amounting to about £400 per day for the last 23 years = £2.87 million

Happy Holidays!!

 

[Mandylicious]

Fair play to him

 

[John Armstrong]

Nice one

 

[Annette]

Sounds like a great entrepreneur doesn't it, but unfortunately not:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp

Another urban myth

 

[Martyn B]

Aw.....

Sounds like a great entrepreneur doesn't it, but unfortunately not:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp

Another urban myth

Shame!

 

[NI Phil]

Shame!

What about this then:



Tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything.
However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism ...


And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

 

[Mandylicious]

Very good

 

[GerryC]

:....
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
....
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

Taking the citizens for a ride - all governments screw the tax payer.