Cockney Star

Friends forward this story to me from time to time. Sometimes it’s about a zoo carpark, sometimes a hospital or a shopping centre. As far as I can tell it never really happened. But it’s an entertaining tale nonetheless: “Outside Bristol Zoo there’s a carpark for cars and coaches. There was a nice bloke with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5. This parking attendant worked there about 25 years, then one day didn't show up for work. ‘Ho hum,’ say Bristol Zoo management, ‘better phone up Bristol City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant.’ ‘No,’ say the Council. ‘The car park is your responsibility.’ ‘The attendant was employed by you, wasn't he?’ say the Zoo. ‘No!’ is the Council’s reply. Meanwhile, sitting in some villa in the south of Spain is the bloke who had been pocketing the Bristol Zoo car park takings for the last 25 years!”