Private Enterprise

Laugh and cry!

I have no idea whether this is true or not, but you can see how it might happen.

I suppose you could argue that someone had to manage the parking and he ended up being a paid volunteer, but at the end of the day, it's theft of course, from both the visitors and from the zoo who should have had the money - but then the visitors would still have paid someone, so maybe it's not theft from them.

More complicated than it seems perhaps.

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