Another Way To Make Money

Outside England’s Bristol Zoo, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, the parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.  The fee for cars was about $1.40, and the fee for buses was about $7.00.

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, the parking attendant just didn’t show up.  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 booth installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day, for 25 years. If he had worked 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars – and no one even knows his name.