From About.com: Urban Legends by David Emery:
Netlore Archive: The Bristol Zoo Parking Attendant
Email tale about a ‘very pleasant attendant’ who, for 25 years running, showed up every day at Bristol Zoo and collected parking fees from visitors, then one day simply disappeared with all the cash. Turns out no one had ever officially hired a car park attendant for the zoo. The man now lives in a villa in Spain.
Description: Email joke / Urban legend
Circulating since: April 2007
Status: False
Email example contributed by Kenneth D., July 6, 2009:
Fw: A well-planned retirement
From The London Times:
Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars 1 pound (about $1.40) and coaches 5 (about $7).
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn’t turn up for work. Continue reading “The Bristol Zoo Parking Attendant”