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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I love the nonsense stories some of them come out withA couple of years back, myself and a friend were confronted in the street by a vagrant and his dog, who claimed to be stranded in town with no money and in desperate need to get back to his home. We gave him a couple of quid and bid him good luck.
In total I have come across him three times since (including less than a week after our first meeting) and he's always spun the same tale. Either he's still not got the money together or he keeps forgetting to buy return tickets when he gets the train.
My favourite though was one man who seemed to be trying to combine as many begger con-lies as possible, approaching a group of us with the following;
"Hi mates can you help me I've got to go up there to get my car [points at side road] cos its getting towed but if I do go up there I'm gonna get arrested and I need to ring my mate to let him know where I am but I aint got any money so have any of you got a cigarette?"*
After a short pause while we mentally inserted punctuation we informed him that none of us smoked, which he refused to believe. Eventually as we were walking off he pointed at one of my friends and insisted, in words that still makes me chuckle,
"I know you smoke, you've got yellow round your mouth!"
*Spoken without pause in an attempt to hide the fact that his story made absolutely no sense.
(, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 1:15, Reply)
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