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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There's a guy who hangs around Inverness Street/Arlington Roadwho always tells the same story - he's got no money to put on his electricity key and he's left his five year-old daughter in the house alone while he tries to get some money together to put the lights on. The first time he tried it on, I fell for it and gave him a quid - these days a Madeleine McCann joke and short shrift are the most likely response.
There's another guy who hangs out in Brixton and claims he's just got out of prison for killing a nonce who touched up his daughter. He's just got out of prison for the past five years to my knowledge, which leads me to believe that his claims might not be 100% true.
Conversely, the old Irish fella in Camden who tells jokes for a pound is fantastic value - when I started complaining that we'd heard all his jokes before (and shouting out the punchlines before he'd even started) he came back with all new material. Some good ones too, well worth a pound.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 17:14,
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