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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stockport skanksok, that title doesn't narrow it down, but these two were particularly bad. when i was about 14 and still soft hearted and impressionable rather than the hardened cynic i am today, my friends and i went into stockport to go shopping. being allowed to do that was a big deal for wide eyed spoilt little girls from the footballers wives belt of cheshire.
outside marks and spencers we stopped dead at a harrowing sight. a man, clad mostly in rags, pushing a grey faced and dead eyed lady around in a wheelchair. she was holding her stomach and moaning. the man was exhorting people to give him cash so he could afford drugs for her cancer because the nhs wouldn't provide them. and the killer touch? she had a puppy in her lap.
we were like fat fish in a dry barrel. we scrabbled around and pooled all our cash; we must have given them about twenty quid, which was so much money to us at the time. the man thanked us; his wife moaned softly and we skipped away, glowing at having done a good deed.
three hours later, all shopped out, we left the precinct and walked up to the big grand central mcdonalds by the train station. outside there was another begging couple. the same couple. only - wait a minute -
only this time, HE was in the wheelchair and SHE was doing the begging...
it was a very bitter lesson, and indeed one that started me on the road of bitterness which has ultimately led to me becoming a lawyer.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 16:23,
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RE: stockport skanks....Having also had the mispleasure of growing up in the god forsaken cesspool that is knows as stockport i can say with confidence that this is merely the tip of the iceburg. i have seen these two myself (and have probbaly been conned by them) but a trip to any of the pubs there will reveal about twenty or so similar scroungers, probbaly all from Brinnington or somewhere equally as pleasant.
It's good to see that other people have managed to escape the horrors of stockport!!
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It's a good lesson to learn really..That stockport (and most other areas of cheshire, especially congleton) is full of arseholes who will do anything they can to take money off you!
I once had a woman approach me in the street to complain about sweat shops, how fashion is evil, blah blah....wearing a 'lovely' pair of nike trainers! I asked whether she realised where they had come from...?
After a couple of seconds of 'umm..' and 'err...' she called me an tight bastard and walked away! Marvellous.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 13:30,
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Hmm...So, is the con the actual story or rachelswipe's attempt to convince us she used to be "soft hearted and impressionable"?
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snee held his breath since, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 15:28,
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arghbollocks, i live in heaton mersey, its quite nice I think. I just moved there from Macc. Stockport town centre is without doubt one of the inner rings of hell but I found a cunning little workaround. I never go there. Instant happy.
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 15:49,
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