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 suppose the only successful con......I ever managed occurred when I was around 5 years old in Flamingo Land of all places!!
Before my family dived off into the wild open wonder of… Malton (oh yes!!) I was given a piggy bank to keep my precious pennies in with the hope I could purchase some cheap zoo/theme park plastic crap from the gift shop! Oh how I treasured the whole £2.50 I had upon my person all day… I took my moneybox on everything… all the rides, on the cable cars of joy, to the dolphin show extravaganza, EVERYWHERE - I refused to be separated from my money!!
Well eventually the excitement of the day surpassed and as children do I got a little sleepy and a little cranky and decided to sit down on a bench and generally have a moan. While I was in full-blown moaning-mode my parents decided to disappear into a nearby restaurant or something leaving me alone for a few minutes - I took this opportunity to count my money again like a young Ebenezer Scrooge.
Whilst enthralled by my stash of cash I didn’t notice a woman wandering over to me, she didn’t ask any questions or anything of the sort, she just leaned down and deposited a £1 in my moneybox… Whhhhhhaaaattt!! That’s right… I got FREE money for no apparent reason!! Now when you’re a child that’s about the biggest news there is… that and possibly a new episode of Thundercats, or Bravestarr (oh childhood in the 80’s)… so I was excited… I danced around cheering and then another person came over and handed some money to me… it was my lucky day, well… until my mother came over realised that people were giving me free cash and dragged me away accusing me of being a little con artist… I personally couldn’t have cared less if I was considered a con artist… I was getting money for sitting around don’t nothing!!
Well as you can guess from my mother’s reaction I didn’t get any rubbish from the gift shop that day… balls! :(
(, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 16:31, 1 reply)
you may not have gotten any rubbishbut you got money....which is so much better!
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 23 Oct 2007, 1:40,
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