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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Milton Keynes beggarThere is a beggar who used to (still does?) hang around Milton Keynes shopping centre in a wheelchair.
Plays the disabled & homeless card while selling big issue etc.
Thought you might like to know he has a house AND CAN WALK!
The wheelchair is part of the act. I was delivering the local paper and he opened the front door so I could hand it to him!
(, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 16:28, 1 reply)
hate to piss on your cornflakes here,but (1) if he used to sell the Big Issue, and now lives in a house, then it worked, didn't it? Isn't that kind of the point of the Big Issue?
and (2) lots of people who legitimately use wheelchairs, can manage to walk/wobble/stagger a few metres in and around their homes - it's just that attempting to walk outside, or to walk any distance, is just too painful/awkward/slow/dangerous.
So not necessarily a con.
It's entirely possible that he IS...
But not a definite fact.
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Batsgirl, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 16:59,
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