A Well-Planned Retirement(this is fooking AWESOME!!)

[genkisan]

This story is from the London Times:

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 ($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 dollars ...... and no one even knows his name.

 

[SuperSizeMe]

This story is from the London Times:

That's a beautiful thing

 

[Indian Culture]

Hey, you never thought I could get away with it did ya? hehe

 

[Bionic]

Urban legend.

 

[RoachClip]

That is simply amazing and funny shit, this guy deserves the nobel prize for the smartest scam in the last 25 years Happy Trails were ever you are Amigo!!

 

[supermanlives]

priceless

 

[supermanlives]

i bet he laughs every time he pays for parking his ride

 

[El_Kabong]

hey! i think i bought a bridge from this guy

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Urban legend.

Snopes FTW, kinda bummed though

 

[kmk420kali]

Snopes FTW, kinda bummed though

Me too!! Thought I had a Hero!! lol

 

[InvisibleEmpire]

First Response: Wow, sneaky little fucker!

Second Response: Snopes comes through with the disappointment!

Third Response: If it was true, he would of sat on someone else's property (city or the zoo's) collecting money from unaware motorists which, by any definition, is theft...I'm sure anyone here would be a bit pissed off if someone stopped by your garden or your stash area and just took all your bud, right?

 

[Feyd]

it was me.

i submitted the hoax article to get the policia off my anus.

don't blow it for me, dweebs.

 

[Dödsknark]

Third Response: If it was true, he would of sat on someone else's property (city or the zoo's) collecting money from unaware motorists which, by any definition, is theft...I'm sure anyone here would be a bit pissed off if someone stopped by your garden or your stash area and just took all your bud, right?

Bah, I'd be more than happy to pay him instead of the city or some big parking company. Has NOTHING to do with my buds. The big guys are stealing from us all day long. He stole from them. Not from the people parking their cars. They would have had to pay the bigger guys if he wasn't there.

Sad it wasn't true.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

"I love it....when a plan comes together"-Hanabil A-Team

 

[Finepointcanon]

That's just about the best thing I've read all day.

 

[firefox]

best thing I've read all day congratz to that man

 

[RoachClip]

The funniest part is that ticket machine is the best Investment he ever made.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

 

[Panoramical]

That's just about the best thing I've read all day.

Ditto. What a shame it's untrue

NB - Shouldn't the OP edit his first post since we've established it's a myth (thanks Bionic)