If Only Bernie Madoff Had Done This Instead

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 (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. 

"Oh well," said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant . . . " 

"Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility." 

"Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"

"Err . . . no!" insisted the Council.  

Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably), is a man who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at 400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years.  Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 3.6 million ($7 million - or $280,000 every year for 25 years)!  

And no one even knows his name.