The art of John Berkey.
Dagobah by Boris Vallejo, 1996
oh no
patj:
Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.
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 France or Italy … 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 pounds … and no one even knows his name.
Fucking brilliance
Th beauty of the long con is the fact that even the victims can’t help but be impressed.
I sincerely hope this is true.
This is still one of my favourite stories of all time.
Yes, it does!!
Filmon making a quick stop in Dauphin during the 1995 election campaign. Moments after this image was captured, he turned the town’s public school into a Woolco and feasted on the blood of nurses
Hmm, I don’t recall this. Though by 1995 I was living in Brandon, so…
42sky42 asked: My English teacher says we shouldn't refer to authors by their first names because they aren't our friends. Will you confirm our friendship and let me call you Neil on my American Gods book report?
Absolutely.
English teachers say a great many things, not all of them correct.
A recent cartoon for the Guardian review.
Absolutely.
Note to self: Try not to treat subplots like this.