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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The United States Postal ServiceThey are, to use an oft over-used phrase: cunts.
Crap service and insane prices.
So back when I was still in high school (long before I was held to the honor code of my college and my eventual service as a Jarhead) a buddy somehow managed to figure out if he hit the machine that dispensed stamps, outside the closed Post Office, that it would discharge handfulls of change. EVERY time.
So we would skateboard up there (I wasnt a typical 'skater' but I had a decent board and it WAS a form of transport back then!) and my buddy would bring this cloth bag...which we would fill once about every three weeks.
Overall I think we took them for about $75. Since then, I have spent WELL over that on stamps that I have lost immediately, so I guess thats kharma for you. So which is the 'con'? The theft of change or the eventual recuperation of said lost change by the Post Office in my seeming inability to keep track of stamps?
Oh well.
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Wed 24 Oct 2007, 4:39,
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The United Kingdom Postal Service.... is pretty well the same, except that they also go on strike a lot.
Apparently they're back at work at the moment. Personally, I'm waiting to see some evidence of that before I believe it.
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patently,I got a letter today. Go ahead the strike's over
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willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 24 Oct 2007, 10:56,
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