True Stories of People Who Pulled Off Successful Long Cons

It takes a lot of work to pull off a long con. To successfully stick to a lie so big and outrageous that it can barely support its weight and maintain it for months or even years isn’t easy.

But some people have managed to fake their way through some incredible situations, as these real life stories prove.

Best Christmas Present Ever

A coworker would always print recipes out on a communal printer. Another coworker sat by the printer and would always steal the printout. First coworker was always a little confused but would just print out a second copy.

This went on for months and around Christmas time the sneaky coworker bound all the recipes together in a book and left it on her desk. Story credit: Reddit / Chester_Copperpot_

Egg-cellent

In senior year of high school, I brought a bag lunch to school every other day. In this bag lunch was always a single, solitary hard-boiled egg.

A friend of mine, being an outstanding gentleman, would always offer to crack the egg for me… And then proceeded to use the head or shoulder of whoever was closest to him as a hard surface. Everyone made a game of it: he had to be sneaky, or enlist others to distract his target.

All in all it was good-natured, immature fun. We probably would have gotten bored and stopped after a week or two. But then I had The Idea. The Beautiful, Perfect Idea.

I started tossing him the egg. I changed things up, slowly tossing it harder and further, till it was more a game of how hard and far we could throw it without it cracking.

For 6 months, I trained him like my perfect little egg catching monkey. He could and would catch an egg in his sleep. He had become genuinely PROUD of his ability to field hard-boiled eggs. And, on the final day of school, I arrived on campus with a single, solitary, uncooked egg.

For half a year I had imagined my friend’s face as he crushed that egg in his bare fist like a tiny little soda can. I will never know a joy as great as the good ten seconds he stood there, egg seeping out of his hand, utterly and completely confused as to what had just happened. Story credit: Reddit / light_mnemonic

Koala Wave

I convinced a friend that if you wave at a koala for long enough, it will wave back. I’d actually forgotten that I convinced her of this until she sent me an angry text saying that she’d been to the zoo with her family, proudly told them this “fact” and begun waving. They all laughed at her.

I called her and laughed too. Story credit: Reddit / Whisky_Drunk

Directed by Quentin

My group of friends and I have convinced at least 5 people so far that Maid In Manhattan was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by him as well. Usually after awhile they watch it or have even had friends over to watch it, and the con ends.

Though one guy who did work for a major advertising agency told his creative director who is a film buff, that his favourite movie by Quentin was Maid In Manhattan (he thought this off hand movie knowledge would impress him), and got asked to leave the meeting to think about what he had done. Story credit: Reddit / aces_of_splades