A Well-Planned Retirement
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 attendant. The fees for cars were about $1.40, for buses about $7.
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 asked it to send them another parking agent..
The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine 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 about $560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars!
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And no one even knows his name.
I bet the person must have been the son of a politician.
It may be new to the people of London but it is nothing new for us living in Kolkata.
We see such people all over the city where cars are parked by people for emergency.
If there is no authorized parking attendant some of the local boys, with stick in hand, take turns in collecting fees from the cars parked. If the person objects, he is not allowed to park his car or it is damaged. The police take no action as they get a cut from the collection.
The government gets nothing
Sent by Arun Shroff
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