beyondtheveil posted on Jun 27, 2009
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From the London Times
'A well planned retirement'
Outside the Bristol Zoo in England there is a parking lot for 150
cars and eight coaches or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine
charging (in American money) $1.40 for cars and $7.00 for coaches.
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of twenty-five years.
Then, one day he just didn't turn up for work.
"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo management, "we'd better phone up the
city council and get them to send a new parking attendant".
"Err...no", said the city council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."
"Err...no", said Bristol Zoo. "The attendant was employed by the city
council, wasn't he?"
"Err... no", insisted the city council.
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably), is a
man who had been taking the parking lot fees estimated at $560.00 a
day at Bristol Zoo for the last twenty-five years. Assuming seven days
a week, this amounts to just over $7,000,000 or $280,000 a year for
those twenty-five years.
And.......no one even knows his name.
Comments
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uniquely-ironic said on Jun 27, 2009....
I need to do that -
queenparanoia said on Jun 27, 2009....
that is smart... ;-) -
gingersoul said on Jun 27, 2009....
Beybey....stroke of genius.....gotta love it!...lol...
Read this: years ago at Naples, Italy, two guys have been arrested for fraud. They were selling to (lets say) extremely naive tourists bottles of.....air.
Yep......the tag was saying "Bring home your true air of Naples".
I mean...can you believe those stupid tourists? But, don't you admire the creativity of those guys?...LOL...
Anyway, Naples and surroundings has always been famous for the variegated ways its citizens invent to earn money working as less as possible or in a very unique shape......
Once these guys were selling seat belts with attached a male mannequin.....if you would have parked in second row you could leave the mannequin in the driver side and put the blinkers on.
Meaning: i am waiting for somebody to hop in the car. But then you could stay away for hours........lol...
After all, cops at Naples are famous for being kind of..... lazy.....;-p
No need to check twice if the sitution looks ready to be solved by itself, right?..
Lets go to have another tazzulella e cafe' (in their slang..."cup of coffee")
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CreativeWoman said on Jun 27, 2009....
Wow! That's probably the best con in history.
CW
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Hegemone said on Jun 27, 2009....
Holy crap, that guy really had it going for him! Heh, that'd be nice to pull of a scheme like that, even if it was just for a few weeks to get me ahead! -
ABOVE_TOP_SECRET said on Jun 27, 2009....
You should get this job! -
secretlife said on Jun 27, 2009....
i always knew i was doing something wrong! -
diabolicdame said on Jun 27, 2009....
Wow.. thats plain brilliant man! -
Psych-ed said on Jun 27, 2009....
Lol, wow that is genious! -
MissMimi said on Jun 27, 2009....
I sorta wish my brain was devious like that. -
Stringpuppet said on Jun 27, 2009....
I should plan something along those lines during the Olympics.. Who wants to go 50/50? -
RollingC said on Jun 27, 2009....
There was a crook in Broward County that came up with a real simple idea for a robbery....unfortunately it was the kind of stuff that you pull only once and then forget about it or maybe try it somewhere else...but greed makes people stupid and what was a brilliantly simple idea turned into his downfall as he got caught doing it the second time around.What was his con? You're not going to believe this....He caught on to the fact that a lot of businesses (like restaurants) make a bank deposit after every shift and the midnight shift deposits their nightly take into the dropbox on the side of the bank where they would get tallied up to their account the next business day.This guy taped a cardboard sign to the handle of the drop cylinder that read...OUT OF ORDER....PLEASE USE BOX BELOW...and there was an arrow pointing to an ordinary cardboard box below with an opening ( like a piggy bank).And people fell for this !!!That to me was the world's perfect heist but it could only be done right once. The guy got greedy and tried it again and the cops were waiting for him.Rc -
husbandhater said on Jun 28, 2009....
Could anyone figure out how I can do something like this in current times so that I can retire from my husband and my job? -
D6fer said on Jun 28, 2009....
wow.......that is pure luck.....the perfect storm of bureaucracy! Where can I get a gig like that? -
one_wired_kitty said on Jul 02, 2009....
ROFL ... I so want that job -
kruuyai said on Jul 03, 2009....
Well, I guess he earned it. :)
Comment on "Wow. Now this guy was thinking"
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