$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.
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.
His actions would be considered normal back in Ethiopia.
Typical government operation — without adequate controls, and easy to cheat and abuse.
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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$400000 and he was only working two days a week.
Yet another great immigrant rags to riches American success story!
musta got greedy...had he glommed onto three or four cars a day nobody would ever notice. many years ago i tagged along on a vendingn machine route. snacking on free candy was cool, but i noticed he always took a quarter from each machine and stuck it in his pocket. wheni asked him, he tod me that nobody would notice one quarter, and he ended up with an extra mabye seventy five bucks a week. back then it was pretty dern good.
nobody ever caught on.
The government frowns on private enterprise. Especially this kind.
Why, this represents money that the government could have used to pay for birth control *and* ObamaCellPhones for up to 22 day-job-challenged women!!
Where is the outrage??
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when did they start charging for parking? when i visited there a while back i was told the guy gave the land to the museum with the agreement that parking would be free.
Supposedly bike parking is free there. Take a bike, drop off your passengers, and then park on the other side of 28 near the CIA building. Bike back.
This is exactly why METRO went to those darned Metro cards, because attendants were stealing more than a million dollars a year. Yeah, I know shocking that someone in the DC Area would steal. Well, except for Congress!
Well, maybe the parking attendant's visitors will have some at his next location...
