reminder about scams, a little further detail

[Steve Sears]

Uh, this Bristol Zoo?:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <"George" <sidman at webloq.com>
> Subject: RE: reminder about scams, a little further detail
> To: "'mike'" <mikemk40 at yahoo.com>, <quattro at audifans.com>
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> A slightly automotive but brilliant scam.....
>
>
>
> *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 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..."
> "Er ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."
> "Er ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by 
> the
> City Council, wasn't he?"
> "Er ... 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 ?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!
>
> George Sidman