This story was first published on July 17th, 2009
Outline
Message claims that a man posing as a car park attendant at Bristol Zoo collected unauthorised parking fees from zoo visitors for 25 years before absconding to Spain to live in luxury on the proceeds of his illegal activities.
Brief Analysis
The information in the message is untrue. The story is a hoax that has been circulating via email, social networking and even some news outlets for several years.
Examples
Outside Bristol Zoo there is a carpark for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses. Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent. The Council did some research and replied that the carpark was the Zoo’s own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.The City Council responded that the carpark attendant had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy … is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about £560 per day — for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 5 million pounds … and no one even knows his name.
Haha.. brilliant!!
Original Source : https://www.hoax-slayer.com/bristol-zoo-car-park-hoax.shtml