Time killing...

Just killing a couple of minutes before I can clock in and found this in my e-mail. I don't know if it's true or not, but if it is, this guy is brilliant.



[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Outside England's Bristol Zoo there is a parking[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]lot [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]parking fees were managed by[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]a very pleasant [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40),[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]£5 for busses (about $7)[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial].[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Management called the City Council and asked it [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]to send them another parking agent[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The Council did some research and replied that the [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]a City employee.. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]The City Council responded that the lot attendant[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]had never been on the City payrole. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial](or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]had simply begun to show up every day, commencing [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]$560 per day -- for 25 years. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]just over [/FONT]
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