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Oh well...nice story...while it lasted:
Description: Email joke / Urban legend
Circulating since: April 2007
Status: False
Parking attendant at British zoo takes off with the funds- Fiction! Possible Aprils Fool Joke!
Summary of the eRumor: A story about an unknown man who worked at the Bristol Zoo in England for 25 years as a parking attendant. One day he stopped showing up to work and the zoo administration called the Bristol town council to hire a replacement. The town council told the zoo that they never hired a parking attendant in the first place and it turned out that this person was not an employee of either the zoo or the city. Calculating the costs the zoo figured this person took off with close £4 million and is probably enjoying a very expensive retirement in Spain.
The Truth: This story is a myth, according a notice posted on "This is Bristol," a visitor information website in the United Kingdom.
The story began circulating around early April and it is believed that this is just an April Fools joke that exploded on the world wide web.
Last edited by WilsonTC; 08-18-2009 at 06:05 PM..
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