(Story retold from one that appeared in The Bristol Evening Post, Monday 15th June 2009)
Outside Bristol Zoo there 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 a ticket machine. The charges are £1.00 per car and £5.00 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, "But that car park is your responsibility."
The Zoo said, "The attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?"
The Council asked, "What attendant?"
Gone missing from his home (and presumably enjoying a very happy retirement) is a man who has been taking around £400.00 per day in parking fees for the past 23 years!
Ach, good on him!!
