True Story

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

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 amount is around 4.7 million USD..

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

LOL!!! The bureaucracy - isn't it wonderful? If the zoo and council were that silly to think that the other would look after it, then they probably both deserve to lose. Too funny.

[TrevorW]

Well typical Govt departments the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing serve them right

Good One

[h0ughy (David)]

LOL i expect Ron to come up with items like this

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Awesome!

Dave

[erick (Eric)]

A good read!


But, sadly, a work of fiction:- http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/carpark.asp

[Baddad (Marty)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Well typical Govt departments the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing serve them right

Good One

Hi jjj & Trevor,

I know a similar one, first hand. Large government run institution. A worker was collecting 2 pay packets for over 15 years. He worked in two different areas.
When he did not turn up for work eventually it led to an investigation. That revealed the worker had died and further investigations found he had been somehow initially employed under two different names.

The parking attendant is certainly devious. Good luck to him.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more similar situations.

Cheers Marty

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Oh well. It was good while it lasted.

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

LOL i expect Ron to come up with items like this

I can't find all the good stories

[avandonk]

Where I used to work at CSIRO was almost opposite Carlton's footy ground. Parking of course was at a premium on any match day. We had one of people donning his white coat and charging total strangers to use our normally locked on site carpark. It was a good earner while it lasted.

Good luck to 'em!

Nice story.

Bert

[Ric]

Sheer brilliance and good luck to the very rich attendant who is no doubt living on a tropical island somewhere.

Cheers

[DeanoNZL (Adrian)]

True enterprise...

[AstralTraveller (David)]

That is just tooo, toooo good.

[mozzie (Peter)]

well the attendent is probably over in the bahamas sunning him self during his retirement
mozzie

[kinetic (Steve)]

Wasn't there a Herman cartoon where an old scruffy butler
has been summoned to the Lord of the Manor and the Landlord
says something like:
" How many years have you been employed here Jeeves"

He says something like: "25 years sir".

"And what do you do around here Jeeves?"

"Oh stuff like walk the dog for you sir"

"The dog's been dead for 5 years!!!"

"what would you like me to do now sir?"

Steve

[GrahamL]

I heard of one a couple of years back.. A lot of very large sheds in industrial complexes are hard to find long term tennants for at times and as such with a smallish deposit on a long term lease you can often negotiate a few months rent free which this guy did .. tyres can no
longer be dumped in landfill I believe so we all where the fee .. a few dollars a trye.. imagine the delight of all the tyre sellers in a large city
to find someone who will take your tyres away a little cheaper than
anyone else .. of course they all jumped at the offer ... to cut a long story short .. when the agents finally got round to opening the shed
that there tennant had seemingly dissapeared from .. they found tyres stacked to the roof ...acres of em

[Zaps]

It reminds me of the numerous people I have met who tried to hijack an actual true story. They would claim that the company they worked for performed an IT resources audit and discovered a server on the network which couldn't be located. So they decided that they would find it. After a prolonged and intensive search, they traced a mysterious network cable to a hole in the wall, and off to who knows where. Turns out the server had been accidentally sealed behind drywall years before and had been happily working away undisturbed all this time!

The problem is that, yes, while it's a true story, it never happened to them. It was a Novell Netware server at the University of North Carolina back around 2001. But people seem to assume that nobody else has ever heard the tale before.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

There was a blind fellow that lived in Bracken Ridge in Brisbane, I won't name him because he's done his time for this and one hopes that he is sorry for what he has done (I doubt it though).
He used to order these kit sheds, get them delivered, wait for them to be unloaded from the truck, then would refuse to sign for them as he couldn't actually see that it had been delivered. He would ask the driver to come back in a couple of hours when his wife would be home so she could sign the delivery docket.
So away the driver would go, then ____ would call his mates up and they would load the kit onto their truck and take it away.
When the delivery driver returned and asked where the shed was ______ would innocently say he didn't see anything.
He was ripping companies off in this way for months before he was caught out. A Current Affair or similar did an expose on him.

[gman (Grant)]

I know first hand that approx 20 yrs ago the workers on the docks & wharfs in Melbourne were getting multiple pay packets, not to mention the bribes to load/unload trucks in a timley manner.
Had to go there many a time bearing gifts of scotch whiskey.