Posted on 09/30/2012 12:29:24 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/30/2012 12:45:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Car-by-car over the past three years, a parking lot attendant at the Smithsonian Institution
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
$15.00 to PARK a CAR??? The attendant isn’t the ONLY one stealing here!
In unions there is strength. But when busted you’re on your own.
No knowing whether my sister's parking fee went to the right place.
But....our national museums are "free."
He is exactly mimicking Social Security. What did he do wrong?
“Terefe stored some of the stolen cash at his home and used some to buy an interest in commercial property in Ethiopia, prosecutors said. He faces sentencing on Dec. 14.”
Oh Brother
He must be a democrat,they tend to work that way.Never give the real numbers is their motto.
Wonder how many were illegals also??
It’s a great museum.
His actions would be considered normal back in Ethiopia.
Typical government operation — without adequate controls, and easy to cheat and abuse.
I “love” the part of the story that relates how he wasn’t stealing and was told to get with the program because he was messing up the gravy train by making their counts suspiciously low. Even the supervisor was taking his cut from everyone.
D.C. Metro parking lot attendants were stealing parking fees. The entire system had to be automated - fare cards.
It really isn’t a bad deal. Pack the car, pay $15, and go into the museum.
Kinda reminds me of the bumper sticker, "Don't steal, the government hates competition".
Don’t worry, he’ll find work at the TSA.
The urban legend ....aka joke !
Fw: A well-planned retirement
From The London Times:
Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars 1 pound (about $1.40) and coaches 5 (about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn’t turn up for work.
“Oh well”, said Bristol Zoo Management - “we’d better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant...”
“Err ... no”, said the Council, “that parking lot is your responsibility.”
“Err ... no”, said Bristol Zoo Management, “the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn’t he?”
“Err ... NO!” insisted the Council.
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at 400 pounds (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 3.6 million pounds ($7 million).
And no one even knows his name.
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$15...pfffttt! You want to see a REAL parking fee? Try the local lots by AT&T Park when the Giants are playing at home. $40 to $45.
Today, parking alone is what bleacher seats for two, a couple of beers and a couple of dogs cost not long ago.
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