a question for the forum's coppers

[Maz]

[QUOTE 2036361, member: 45"]Without even the tiniest gesture of a smile or gratitude he pocketed the fags, pulled out his pad and pointed at "Twix".[/quote]
I hope you gave him two fingers.

Did he pay you for the fags?

 

[mark st1]

I was happily watching tele the other night when there was a loud knock at the door i sent my daughter to answer it and it was a smart middle aged gentleman selling blinds my daughter shouted "Dad there is a blind salesman at the door"

"Tell him i cant see him" i replied

Sorry I will get my coat

 

[Globalti]

I met this bloke at Milan Malpensa airport:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-picture-Airport-fraudster-Andrew-Gradon.html

Sadly I was one of the thousands he has conned successfully.

 

[classic33]

Recently asked for eighty quid for bus fare so that the female with the one asking could get home.

Done the meal, instead of giving money. Went in paid for it & left him to it. Quickest response seen, when asked for money for bus fare has come from a nun. Male, I think, asking for 5p for his bus fare. Got to the nun who immediatly asked him where he was going. His answer of why? got the swift response of if thats all your fare costs I'll go on the same bus.

He departed at this point.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I may have mentioned this elsewhere on the forum in the past, but I like to think of myself as reliable more than repetitive.

Back when I had a record shop a young lad came in and handed me a scrap of paper telling me that he was deaf and needed a quid to make an urgent phonecall.

In flawless sign language I asked him how he was going to make a phonecall if he was deaf. He looked sheepish and made a swift exit.

 

[Milkfloat]

I may have mentioned this elsewhere on the forum in the past, but I like to think of myself as reliable more than repetitive.

Back when I had a record shop a young lad came in and handed me a scrap of paper telling me that he was deaf and needed a quid to make an urgent phonecall.

In flawless sign language I asked him how he was going to make a phonecall if he was deaf. He looked sheepish and made a swift exit.

About 10 posts up in this thread - deflation has occurred it was £2 last time

 

[postman]

2012 i have just liked a 2012 post.

 

[Spinney]

2012 i have just liked a 2012 post.

That's OK - things were better in the olden days.

 

[Globalti]

I've lent money three times and been conned; once was, as I posted above, the notorious fraudster Andrew Gradon, once was a neighbour's grown-up son who came banging on his Mum's door and when she didn't appear, turned to me and asked if he could borrow a tenner then rushed off towards the Spinnings in Summerseat where I later learned that a drug dealer lives. The third time was a sweet old English lady who got in a hotel lift with me in Budapest, made a show of having forgotten her handbag and asked if I could lend her 200 Forint, which was about 50p. I never saw her again either.

Each of these rankles, even years later, as my good nature was exploited. I've told my son aged 17: "If anybody ever asks to borrow money you can reply: 'Sure - how much do you want? And what will you give me as surety? How about your mobile?' "

 

[Andrew_Culture]

About 10 posts up in this thread - deflation has occurred it was £2 last time

Yup, almost reliable!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Aesop has nowt on Cycle Chatters

 

[Cheddar George]

I may have mentioned this elsewhere on the forum in the past, but I like to think of myself as reliable more than repetitive.

Back when I had a record shop a young lad came in and handed me a scrap of paper telling me that he was deaf and needed a quid to make an urgent phonecall.

In flawless sign language I asked him how he was going to make a phonecall if he was deaf. He looked sheepish and made a swift exit.

Best thread resurrection ever.

The same story only separated by twelve posts and four and a half years.

If i wore a hat i would raise it to you.

 

[Deafie]

I've become a little jaded to scroungers, It seems I can't walk out the front door without someone stopping me with a hard luck story these days, my stock automatic reply is,"Sorry I can't help you, good luck!" It gets quite tiresome having to do this so often.
However, the other day I did get a chuckle out of one of the regulars who begs for change in our area.
The first time I became aware of him he had a strongly nasal speaking voice and appeared to have trouble pronouncing words, his limbs were twisted and he moved awkwardly and jerkily like someone with a motor function disorder. A few years later I noticed that he must have had a miraculous recovery as he had joined the military, gone off to war and lost an arm in combat defending his country. Unfortunately, not long after this, his old health problems had returned, but on the upside, he had managed to grow his arm back. Since then he has been working the front of the local supermarket, I saw him recently outside a different supermarket and to top off all his other problems he now appears to have gone blind as he was sporting dark glasses and carrying a blind stick, apparently in a great state of agitation he was actually trying to trip people up with his stick while shaking his change cup and whining pitifully for help.

 

[Drago]

It's a miracle!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I had a pitiful begging letter last month from some outfit called HMRC. I had to pay up too after they became very threatening, reported it to the police but they were useless and didn't want to know. What do we pay our taxes for?