This is NOT TRUE, but this story bares repeating...This is how to retire a millionaire! So here goes a "Well Planned Retirement".

Parking Lot Attendent Works The Lot
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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 for cars, about $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 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.

source: Bristol Evening Post

If ever there was a story too good to be true, this is one. Not only has a crack team of journalists from the Bristol Evening Post conducted a thorough investigation and found the tale of the phantom parking lot attendant to be "nothing more than an urban myth," they have also succeeded in pinning down its exact point of origin: the Bristol Evening Post!

And I quote: "A version of the story did appear in the Evening Post two years ago," explains an article in the June 13, 2009 edition of the paper, "in a feature on urban myths published to coincide with April Fools' Day."

source: David Emery, About.com Guide

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