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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GNER and ScotrailHah, after I graduated from uni my and my mate went to the Edinburgh festival for a week. I couldn't really afford to go, what with the train costing about £90 or something awful like that, and thats not counting the weeks worth of commuting from Sterling (where our friend was staying) to Edinburgh everyday.
Anyways, my (now thankfully ex, although not ex enough) girlfriend had just finished her trip of the UK, and was flying back to Canada. She left me a BritRail pass.
A BritRail pass is a train ticket that can only be bought from oversees. Its a £200 ticket that allows you to make any 5 days journeys on the UK Rails network. All you had to do was write your journeys down on the ticket. In pen.
Well, my ex thankfully had the sense to write her journeys down in pencil and carry a rubber with her. Which left me to abuse the UK rail network off by travelling to Scotland from London for free.
Happy days, the train guards really didnt know what to do with the ticket, not did they have the sense to ask for my passport (which was a condition of the ticket) which certainly would've given the game away.
(, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 22:06, Reply)
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