A well planned retirement

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The Very Best, Well-Planned, Retirement Requires No Financial Advice

From The London Times: May 15, 2009

Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches A£5 ( about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 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 Council, “that parking lot is your responsibility.”
“Err … no”, said Bristol Zoo Management, “the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn’t he?”
“Err … NO!” insisted the Council.

Sitting in a villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at A£400 (about $560) per day at the Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over A£3.6 million (about $7 million) !
And no one knows his full name
Ha!

Thanks Tommy Salami

A great story, but unfortunately, it’s FALSE

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3 thoughts on “A well planned retirement”

  1. i have found that if you have confidence and look like your suppose to be there most people will not question you.

  3. A well planned retirement??

    First and only, how could this guy NEVER have been sick and needed to stay home from work in 25 years!
    Suddenly after 25 years he does not show up for work. There is no one to fill in for him.

    Apparently no one or at the the most very few have the brains to consider this problem.

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