Job of a Lifetime: The Bristol Zoo car park attendant
Job of a Lifetime: The Bristol Zoo car park attendant
June 7, 2009
Outside Bristol Zoo is a 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 his 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...!
Total sum just short ?2.9 million
Job of a Lifetime: The Bristol Zoo car park attendant
June 7, 2009
Outside Bristol Zoo is a 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 his 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...!
Total sum just short ?2.9 million
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