ct: FRIDAY BRIGHT SPOT ....... BRISTOL EVEN. POST
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> From yesterdays Bristol Evening Post:
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> Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches.
> It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very
> polite car park attendant with the ticket machine.
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> The charges are £1. per car and £5. per coach.
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> On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned
> Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
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> The Council said "That car park is your responsibility." The Zoo said "The
> attendant was employed by the City Council... wasn't he?"
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> The Council said "What attendant?"
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> Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking car park fees
> amounting to about £400 per day for the last 23 years...GREAT A Ha
