July 26, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 �1 for cars ($1.40),
�5 for busses (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.


 


 

With 4 million You tube hits:

Weird Al Yankovic-Eat It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfcOriVKBM

 

 

 

 

This fellow makes eagle sculptures. Thanks for sharing Ray!

 

It's "ill eagle" to use real feathers or any other parts, so he uses chicken and turkey feathers.

 

He's quite an artist!

 

 

 

 

Horst celebrates his birthday with his three sons.

He was born the exact same day as my Dad, who went to the Imax for his birthday.

And here is Horst's great grandson Landon enjoying his first ride on the new Zip Liner. 2 meg video download

 

St. Peter's Church in Minnesota (the old family parish) to be structurally demolished.

 

Wilfred enjoys a day out with the guys at the Bavarian Fest.

 

 

We had a pleasant Saturday.

Polly Bergen congratulates Mary.  More here.


 And we had a pleasant Sunday in NYC  More here.
 

 

 

Calibrating my words carefully, so I don't act stupidly:

Ole man Pete 

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