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 needed to use the ATM.The Lunatic Artist and I were on our way here on Saturday morning when I went to stop to get cash. It was just about 8:00 on a Saturday morning, so all was still rather quiet as we drove. I didn't expect to find anyone at the ATM.
But as I got out of the car I saw two teenyboppers standing at the ATM, so I did the polite thing and stood to one side at a bit of distance. Usually the person at the ATM can see that you're waiting and will take care of their business quickly- but not these two. No, they stood there chattering about what they were going to do that day as they decided how much money to take out, what they were going to buy, how Ben owed one of them $26, how much they loved buying event tee shirts... and all the while they weren't pushing any buttons, just chattering away.
I'm patient to a point- some would say to a fault- but this annoyed the particular piss out of me, as I still had a three and a half hour drive ahead of me. I stood there waiting...
You know how sometimes coffee will have a certain... effect? How it can stimulate your intestine into overdrive?
My two cups of coffee were starting to kick in, and I felt an enormous pressure in my belly so I knew what was coming. I moved to position myself directly upwind of the teenyboppers, about ten feet away, and let loose with a gargantuan Silent But Deadly- the kind where you feel it coming from deep within, the kind where you can feel how horrid it is as it comes out of you, the kind where it almost leaves a visible green mist on the air.
A moment later the conversation at the ATM stopped and was followed by the frantic punching of buttons, the grabbing of cash and card, and the quick departure of teenyboppers. I had said nothing- I didn't need to. A good crop dusting was sufficient.
And that was how I conned two giggling twits into moving along, fast.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 22 Oct 2007, 12:30,
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Haha!ATMs in England now allow you to top up your mobile phone credit as well as do banking stuff...
I waited behind someone doing this once, and it took forever
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'crop dusting'going to have to remember that one
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 24 Oct 2007, 3:57,
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