|           A perfect example of         government mismanagement.                Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and         8 buses. For 25 years,it's parking fees were managed by a very         pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (£1.40),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         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 7         million pounds ... and no one even knows his name.                    |         
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