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Post by buttercup »

Dont know if this is true or not - maybe someone could confirm?

Just received it in an e-mail.

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 the 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 daily the car park fees amounting to about £400 per day for the last 23 years...!
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Post by spot »

Good lord, I must have said hello and passed the time of day with him any number of times. Nice chap too. He was definitely there on duty last month.
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Post by buttercup »

Go do some fishing and find out if its true Spot, should be in your local paper.
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Damn ive been found out :wah:
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Post by FUBAR »

I would guess---False. Seems to be an old story. Just popped up again.......It has shown up in lots of places in the last week........:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

from 2007

Bristol Zoo carpark thief - snopes.com
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Post by farmer giles »

WELL DONE FUBAR

we dont want people posting untruths and having a laugh do we now :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl



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