Something like this happened in New York a few years back. It seems after auditing a bunch of city property 3 parking lots were actually on city property. Employee records show they had been opened for 5 to 7 years and the employees were even enrolled in workers comp. 11 people lost jobs and the Russian immigrants running the scam went back home.
TE
October 16, 2015 1:10 pm
This happens in Detroit with every baseball and football game.
Parking lots “open” all over downtown/Greektown (where the stadiums exist) and official looking “workers” in fluorescent vests with the little aprons with pockets throw up signs claiming guarded lots and charging between $10-$30 to park. Closer to the stadium equates to higher prices.
On average at least half of these are scams. Usually when you return feeling good, or not, this is Detoilet and our teams suk, your car is still there though the signs and the “guards” are long gone. No harm, no foul.
BUT, many of these lots are city owned (thanks taxes! stealing property from the people for the benefit of all, or union jobs, one of the two) and game goers return to nothing but an empty lot.
Your cars have been towed. If a weekend game, you get the bonus of not only paying $100 for the tow, but a minimum of two days of storage at the corrupt tow yard. Oops, I mean crony-connected. Apparently, there is a difference.
25 YEARS? Nobody noticed when he took time off that no one was there to take his place?
Wow. No wonder they want to lock down banking and the internet. Government dweebs the West over can’t find their bums with both hands and road map.
Tucci78
October 16, 2015 1:17 pm
See? Even bureaucracy can be a DIY form of self-employment.
IndenturedServant
October 16, 2015 1:37 pm
Not sure what years he pulled this off but I could have contributed to his retirement myself! Good for him! Took balls to do that for 25 years.
Hope@ZeroKelvin
October 16, 2015 1:51 pm
What is really funny about this is that (Not so) Great Britain has become the nanny-police state on freaking steroids, yet this guy flew under the radar and made a freaking fortune.
What is also really funny is that NOT ONE OF THE ZOO PATRONS even questioned whether this guy was legit. Talk about SHEEPLE.
Good on him, I say. Wish I had thought of that about 25 years ago.
OutLookingIn
October 16, 2015 2:32 pm
The gentleman in question seen a need and fulfilled it.
Free Enterprise in Action! Hell yah!
Thaisleeze
October 16, 2015 2:36 pm
This story is quite old now, opinion seems to lean in favour of it being a set up
Scott
October 16, 2015 3:35 pm
..hoax news article….
Phil from Oz
October 16, 2015 10:11 pm
Hoax I’m afraid folks
Spent some time working in Bristol Eye Infirmary, and the Zoo was a major attraction. Parked there many times, and the parking fees were collected by many different employees – employees that also worked inside the Zoo.
There was a slight problem with “overenthusiastic” Carpark attendants, and the regular visits from the Clinicians of the Bristol Veterinary School at one stage. Made the local paper, with many of the Carpark Attendants (plural, note) being involved in this PR fiasco!
Lysander
October 16, 2015 10:20 pm
I know another good one. How about these scammers who charge a fee in order for you to live in a house you bought and paid for? And it gets better, listen…you’ll love this part….If you buy a car you have to pay a fee to drive it on roads you paid for, patrolled by men with guns that you paid for and you pay a fee for just owning it. In effect, when you get home with your car, you will have already paid a fee to park it on the very same property that you already paid a fee for.
What’s the old saying?
Work smart, not hard?
Something like this happened in New York a few years back. It seems after auditing a bunch of city property 3 parking lots were actually on city property. Employee records show they had been opened for 5 to 7 years and the employees were even enrolled in workers comp. 11 people lost jobs and the Russian immigrants running the scam went back home.
This happens in Detroit with every baseball and football game.
Parking lots “open” all over downtown/Greektown (where the stadiums exist) and official looking “workers” in fluorescent vests with the little aprons with pockets throw up signs claiming guarded lots and charging between $10-$30 to park. Closer to the stadium equates to higher prices.
On average at least half of these are scams. Usually when you return feeling good, or not, this is Detoilet and our teams suk, your car is still there though the signs and the “guards” are long gone. No harm, no foul.
BUT, many of these lots are city owned (thanks taxes! stealing property from the people for the benefit of all, or union jobs, one of the two) and game goers return to nothing but an empty lot.
Your cars have been towed. If a weekend game, you get the bonus of not only paying $100 for the tow, but a minimum of two days of storage at the corrupt tow yard. Oops, I mean crony-connected. Apparently, there is a difference.
25 YEARS? Nobody noticed when he took time off that no one was there to take his place?
Wow. No wonder they want to lock down banking and the internet. Government dweebs the West over can’t find their bums with both hands and road map.
See? Even bureaucracy can be a DIY form of self-employment.
Not sure what years he pulled this off but I could have contributed to his retirement myself! Good for him! Took balls to do that for 25 years.
What is really funny about this is that (Not so) Great Britain has become the nanny-police state on freaking steroids, yet this guy flew under the radar and made a freaking fortune.
What is also really funny is that NOT ONE OF THE ZOO PATRONS even questioned whether this guy was legit. Talk about SHEEPLE.
Good on him, I say. Wish I had thought of that about 25 years ago.
The gentleman in question seen a need and fulfilled it.
Free Enterprise in Action! Hell yah!
This story is quite old now, opinion seems to lean in favour of it being a set up
..hoax news article….
Hoax I’m afraid folks
Spent some time working in Bristol Eye Infirmary, and the Zoo was a major attraction. Parked there many times, and the parking fees were collected by many different employees – employees that also worked inside the Zoo.
There was a slight problem with “overenthusiastic” Carpark attendants, and the regular visits from the Clinicians of the Bristol Veterinary School at one stage. Made the local paper, with many of the Carpark Attendants (plural, note) being involved in this PR fiasco!
I know another good one. How about these scammers who charge a fee in order for you to live in a house you bought and paid for? And it gets better, listen…you’ll love this part….If you buy a car you have to pay a fee to drive it on roads you paid for, patrolled by men with guns that you paid for and you pay a fee for just owning it. In effect, when you get home with your car, you will have already paid a fee to park it on the very same property that you already paid a fee for.
Beautiful…just beautiful.
I respect this self-made millionaire.