JaggyThistle Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 From the London Times: Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (£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 France or Italy ... 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 pounds .... and no one even knows his name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda-jag Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 Sorry to burst your 'balgging it' bubble, but this is a well-known HOAX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaggyThistle Posted November 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 Sorry to burst your 'balgging it' bubble, but this is a well-known HOAX Aw bugger And yes, i noticed the "Balgging It" mistakes as soon as i posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 I reckon with a few minor twists the same kind of story could be spun for footballers..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinny Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 I reckon with a few minor twists the same kind of story could be spun for footballers..... This could easily be expanded upon... Some guy, only known as 'Dave the Ukrainian' (nobody knows his real name), has been pretending to be a footballer for years, fooling the greats of football management like Uncle Dicke. (I know he's Dmytro Pronevych, but let's not ruin the story.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 This is absolutely true: Many years ago, for reasons that we don't need to go into, a bunch of us were driving a Land Rover in west Africa (Senegal), when we got stopped by the local rural police for a spot-check. The policeman in his best "French" asked to see the papers for the vehicle. We didn't have the papers with us. Knowing the mountainous difficulties that would probably ensue, our quick-thinking driver rummaged through some documents and gave one to the policeman. The policeman looked at it solemnly for several seconds, then nodded his head, gave the document back and told us to drive on. What our driver had given him was the official notification of his divorce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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