ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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Swiftythegood/bad but not evilI can relate to your vodka-scoffing dosser.
I lived in North Leeds for many years and suffered the usual parade of "Give me twenty pence for a cup of tea/train to Cardiff/present for the disabled children" etc. brigade.
One particular suspect, however, tapped me so many times with spurious tales of woe that we developed a rapport.
He was banned from all the local shops for shoplifting so I'd buy him a can of Special Brew whenever I saw him. All the pretence went, and he told me the real tale of woe (no qualifications, into the forces, could'nt handle it, hit the bottle, now lived in a bush etc..)
I was fairly immune to the bleatings of street people prior to that but there's always a reason, however tawdry, that they're trying to scam you.
Entirely devoid of humour I'm afraid, but some cons are borne of socio-economic necessity. We've been conned into paying taxes to fund an illegal, immoral and entirely unjustified occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Is'nt that the most effective mass con that has ever been?
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 21:57,
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TrueA good point sir. I do try to give money to genuine homeless people, and have even bought the Big Issue on occasion. However, most of the feckless wasters that approach me in Greenock will be on the social, living on a godforsaken scheme with the rest of the scum. Not homeless, just bampots. The sad thing is, it makes you numb to real suffering, such as you've described above. And there ain't much funny about that.
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