I must admit that I seem to have inherited a large portion of Australian Larrikinism. This story tickled my sense of humour. If you humans are dumbed down enough to let one of your own get away with this – well nothing surprises me any more.

Outside  England’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses.
For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.
The fees were one pound for cars, approx:  ($1.40), and for  buses (about $7).

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 parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded
that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of  Spain (or some such scenario), 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 $7 million dollars!

And no one even knows his name.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

The Larrikin Chimp