Handbag Theft Scam

ilnf

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Not for a moment would I suspect my sister of doing something like that- and if you do it to yours, I strongly suggest you do something about your relationship! :eek:

Obviously this story hasn't gone down well at all here, so if you are all quite finished, I would appreciate your avoidance to reply to this thread.

She isn't suggesting your Sister read it online and made it up to tell you...probably somewhere further down the line (your sister's friends or maybe her friend or her friend...) read it, told it as a story and it continued and passed from person to person.

Its a myth, an urban legend - that's how they work

antenna

Basically anyone that starts a sentence with basically either in type or when talking,well,basically i am bored with it.As for the story,well,basically its bullshot.

cheapscate

PopeSock wrote: »

You won't be saying that when the burglars come back at night and steal her kidneys.

what do you mean 'come back'? don't you know - they are still in the house!!!:eek::eek::eek:

Bowling_4_Gold

ilnf wrote: »

She isn't suggesting your Sister read it online and made it up to tell you...probably somewhere further down the line (your sister's friends or maybe her friend or her friend...) read it, told it as a story and it continued and passed from person to person.

Hmm.... Perhaps.

I will ask her when we see her on Monday for a Bank Holiday barbie :beer:

twentypenceoff

cheapscate wrote: »

what do you mean 'come back'? don't you know - they are still in the house!!!:eek::eek::eek:

they are in the corner of the room with sheets over their heads disguised as clown statues, and then when the babysitter calls the parents and says she doent like the clown statues and they say there are no clown statues in the house, and tell her to leave the house quickly because the phone call has been traced to an upstairs bedroom in the same house...and she runs out via the kitchen putting a joint of beef into the microwave on the way out for the parents dinner but in the confusion afterwards realising she is holding the joint of beef and then where is the baby?

but then again, maybe that isn't the same urban legend

Amanda

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Hmm.... Perhaps.

I will ask her when we see her on Monday for a Bank Holiday barbie :beer:

Tell her to invite her lying friends over and grill them over the now debunked John Lewis story :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Bowling_4_Gold

Amanda wrote: »

Tell her to invite her lying friends over and grill them over the now debunked John Lewis story :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh jees, was that really neccesary?

antenna

Amanda wrote: »

Tell her to invite her lying friends over and grill them over the now debunked John Lewis story :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Might be better to grill her kidneys

Amanda

Honestly, the pun WAS intended lol

real1314

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Hmm.... Perhaps.

I will ask her when we see her on Monday for a Bank Holiday barbie :beer:

It happens a lot - someone at work told me the "david beckham paid off a friends mortgage" story once. She said it was the "daughter of her mum's friend at the gym" who had the lucky windfall. And it was the week before christmas. I hadn't seen it on snopes, but it all just smelled of b/s. I told her I thought it was made up, she said I was a misreable unseasonal grumpy old git.

I've also been told the "rape kit behind the passenger seat" and "terrorist gives warning to stranger who gives them change for purchase" - all from people who say it was a "friend of a friend". Someone told me the "shared biscuits" one a few weeks back.

The worst thing is, when you tell people they'e been had, they see you as worse than the person who fed them the b/s - but the truth hurts.