The mysterious and unknown parking attendant

[Thuganomics]

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 £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.
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.

[Inaayah]

What a lil' criminal.

He's casually chilling on a beach like, yeah I'm a boss.

[barbarossa]

Odeygu waa rageedii!

[LeJusticier]

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 £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.
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.

clever guy

[LeJusticier]

Odeygu waa rageedii!

Waxaan maqlay Aw252 sheeko taa u dhaw inuu ka sameeyey US.

[BlueBlood]

Tried to find more info on this story but it looks like its an urban myth/legend

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Lol. The world is full of ways in scamming people off their money. He who dares, wins.

[CaliQase]

[barbarossa]

Odeygu waa rageedii!

Waxaan maqlay Aw252 sheeko taa u dhaw inuu ka sameeyey US.

Anyone astute enough to pull off a scam of this magnitude earns my repsect..

[jamal9]

Was he Nigerian?

I will try to do the same at the Toronto Zoo.

[abdikarim86]

It's an urban myth ...it was confirmed as a fake story 6 years ago in Bristol's local paper

[TheLoFather]

Lol. The world is full of ways in scamming people off their money. He who dares, wins.

Yep; only fools and horses work!

[BVSNet]

[Methylamine]

Probably a Xabashi