No too long ago I featured in our Top Screw-Ups # 2 the incredible story of the 'Entreprenuerial NewsPaper Delivery Man' who managed to  pull the wool over an entire towns eyes for some incredible length of time and illegally make quite a substantial income by selling them newspapers that he was stealing from the Express Times Boxes.

Now comes this rather amazing story about an Entreprenuerial CarPark Attendant - which I believe came from a report in the Bristol Evening Post:

It goes something like this:

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Outside Bristol Zoo is the 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 the 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 of £2.9 million.

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