summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The bare faced cheek.lol
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Sadly I think it’s what Trump would call fake news , seems like it’s been circulating for a few years . Below are a couple of articles online.
“Many similar versions of the rumour has spread over the years, and most of them target Bristol Zoo, but with differing prices attached for the parking costs of different vehicles.
It’s a fascinating tale, but not one shred of truth behind it. The story has been spreading since 2009 but can be traced back even further. In fact it started its life as a chain email before finding itself being passed between people on social media.
Bristol Zoo – and their real parking attendants – are more than familiar with this tale, after being asked about it for many years now. They have on numerous occasions dispelled the rumour, as well as insisting that there has never been any confusion over who is responsible for manning the car parking around the zoo gardens. They even have a copy of the Bristol Evening Post article that debunks the tale on their own website.
In reality the zoo gardens has many different car parks, and they are manned by multiple attendants, so the claim that one attendant who managed to turn up every day without anyone noticing he wasn’t actually supposed to be working there would not be feasible.”
A 2009 from article apparently from the Bristol Post , linked From the zoo’s website
“It's a story which has been circulated on the internet for months and made people around the world chuckle from behind their computer screens.
Touted as a genuine news article, the tale of a Bristol Zoo parking attendant who lined his own pockets with customers' cash for 23 years before going missing with the loot has set cyberspace alight.
But the Evening Post can confirm the story, which has been emailed to thousands of people across the globe in recent months, is nothing more than an urban myth – and the real attendants say the joke is starting to wear thin.
Our newsroom, as well as the offices of Bristol Zoo, has been inundated with messages asking if the story is true, particularly as some versions say it has recently appeared in the Evening Post.
The story has been published on many blogs and forums on the internet and even caught the attention of the police after one person who read it made a complaint.
The story in the email being circulated states the car park at Bristol Zoo has been manned by a single attendant for the past 23 years, who had taken advantage of a mix-up between the zoo and the city council over who was responsible for the operation to collect drivers' money for himself before retiring on the proceeds.
Bristol Zoo insists there has never been any confusion over parking attendants and says it has several attendants and more than one car park – none open to coaches.
A version of the story did appear in the Evening Post two years ago – in a feature on urban myths published to coincide with April Fools' Day.
Parking attendant Cliff Smith, 58, who was on duty at the Clifton Down car park yesterday, said: "I've worked here for about five years and it was about two years ago that this email started to circulate. It was around April time, which might explain things, but we didn't really take much notice of it.
"Then in about April of this year it appeared again. Someone mentioned it to me, then a couple of zoo members said it had been circulated around their companies.
"Three days later a policeman turned up because it had gone to Bath and North East
Somerset Council and someone there had told the police.
"It's getting a bit boring now but it still seems to going around."
“Many similar versions of the rumour has spread over the years, and most of them target Bristol Zoo, but with differing prices attached for the parking costs of different vehicles.
It’s a fascinating tale, but not one shred of truth behind it. The story has been spreading since 2009 but can be traced back even further. In fact it started its life as a chain email before finding itself being passed between people on social media.
Bristol Zoo – and their real parking attendants – are more than familiar with this tale, after being asked about it for many years now. They have on numerous occasions dispelled the rumour, as well as insisting that there has never been any confusion over who is responsible for manning the car parking around the zoo gardens. They even have a copy of the Bristol Evening Post article that debunks the tale on their own website.
In reality the zoo gardens has many different car parks, and they are manned by multiple attendants, so the claim that one attendant who managed to turn up every day without anyone noticing he wasn’t actually supposed to be working there would not be feasible.”
A 2009 from article apparently from the Bristol Post , linked From the zoo’s website
“It's a story which has been circulated on the internet for months and made people around the world chuckle from behind their computer screens.
Touted as a genuine news article, the tale of a Bristol Zoo parking attendant who lined his own pockets with customers' cash for 23 years before going missing with the loot has set cyberspace alight.
But the Evening Post can confirm the story, which has been emailed to thousands of people across the globe in recent months, is nothing more than an urban myth – and the real attendants say the joke is starting to wear thin.
Our newsroom, as well as the offices of Bristol Zoo, has been inundated with messages asking if the story is true, particularly as some versions say it has recently appeared in the Evening Post.
The story has been published on many blogs and forums on the internet and even caught the attention of the police after one person who read it made a complaint.
The story in the email being circulated states the car park at Bristol Zoo has been manned by a single attendant for the past 23 years, who had taken advantage of a mix-up between the zoo and the city council over who was responsible for the operation to collect drivers' money for himself before retiring on the proceeds.
Bristol Zoo insists there has never been any confusion over parking attendants and says it has several attendants and more than one car park – none open to coaches.
A version of the story did appear in the Evening Post two years ago – in a feature on urban myths published to coincide with April Fools' Day.
Parking attendant Cliff Smith, 58, who was on duty at the Clifton Down car park yesterday, said: "I've worked here for about five years and it was about two years ago that this email started to circulate. It was around April time, which might explain things, but we didn't really take much notice of it.
"Then in about April of this year it appeared again. Someone mentioned it to me, then a couple of zoo members said it had been circulated around their companies.
"Three days later a policeman turned up because it had gone to Bath and North East
Somerset Council and someone there had told the police.
"It's getting a bit boring now but it still seems to going around."
This one I know is true...Back in the late 80s or so the manager of The Greenhills in Allerton put in a 4th till. Lasted 3 or 4 yrs before they found out
scotchbutterpin
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Nail on the head.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Hats off to him, probably never paid a penny in tax and imagine how many police and tax inspectors used the car park for them and their families. And here's me who received a letter from the tax office, saying I owed them £202, for not paying enough tax last yearThe bare faced cheek.lol
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