Don't you just wish you'd thought of this

[peterw]

From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement 
A perfect example of government mismanagement.   

       

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.

I think this is my favourite E-Mail ever!! 

Luvely Jubbly!!!!!

[Daley Down Under]

Fantastic story

[David H]

Good for him.

['The Gaffer']

Haha is this for real??

[Bulldog Bri]

What a great idea... Our car park holds around 1000 cars!!! 

Anyone got a spare parking meter. 

[paintman]

Like it......so simple its ingenious.

[peterw]

I remember reading about in the paper a while ago , so yet it's true !!!

[Hairy Santa]

and all I did was take a 3 week holiday in the maldives and when I returned the idiots had taken over my pitch down at the zoo 

right bummer