Outrageous Liars

rstoday

I was once having lunch with my husband and the table next to us had someone walk by who they knew. He stopped to chat to them and almost immediately launched into this story about how some government official in Spain had recently invited him over to visit. Whilst there he had gone to see a bull-fight for the first time, but although the rest of the crowd were cheering and having fun he alone seemed to realise that something was very wrong and the bull-fighter was in serious trouble. So he ran down to the railings, jumped over the fence and gave the very grateful bull-fighter a leg up over the fence. At this point he actually said “I saved his life!” the bemused woman to whom he was telling this repeated “You saved his life!” But of course now he was in the ring with the bull. The crowd was on tenterhooks, you could hear a pin drop. He was scared for his life and maybe it was the adrenaline that helped him to do it, but somehow he managed to scale the fence alone and get back to safety. The whole crowd was cheering him, people were slapping him on the back and carrying him on their shoulders. There was a massive party and he was like a guest of honour and didn’t have to buy a single drink all night....

At this point I think even he realised that he had gone too far, as he quickly made his excuses and left. This has got to be the single most bonkers story I have ever witnessed anyone telling! I normally cannot stand people that lie but I felt myself wishing I knew this guy just for the entertainment value :rotfl:

sassyblue

Funny rstoday you've just reminded me of a few days we spent in London years ago. We sat outside a pub/bistro place enjoying the evening when next to us drives up this young couple and they sat on the table next to us. During the course of our meal he proceeded to bang on to this girl about this car, that there's only a few of them in the world and the one they drew up in belonged to David Beckham before he bought it from him, they'd become great friends and he now went out for the odd drink with him, he'd also recently been to the Monaco Grand Prix where he was given unlimited access to all areas, he was in the process of buying his own yacht which he was going to moor off some Mediterranean harbour.... Blah blah..

I don't think l heard her speak all evening, l don't know what the car was but he looked like a spiv and no more than 20 years old, so God knows what the truth was.

ronangel

bangersnmash wrote: »

I remember now, I looked into this a bit a few years ago, and I was particularly taken with this splendid name, pseudologica fantastica, what a great pair of words.

One of the descriptions I read was that it sometimes applies to people who are so in the habit of lying that they believe their own lies and can't differentiate between reality and fantasy. Which is rather scary stuff and, as I mention above, is sometimes real serious mental illness and sometimes includes fraud, petty crime and heavy crime.
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This lot reminds me of a story where a man goes to a psychiatrist and asks him now you have examined me what exactly do I have wrong with me?
The psychiatrist replied nothing in particular you are just plain nuts…:)

skint_chick

My ex used to tell girls online that I was just a lesbian friend he lived with because he felt sorry for me, he also used to tell women he owned our joint house outright and had several others, that he'd been to uni when he hadn't (don't know why this mattered as he had a good job),that he was moving to America, and that I stolen all his money. Several years later he's supposed to be marrying a girl in America to get a visa and is telling her he loves her while picking up women online by saying he's single looking for a relationship. He recently told the most outrageous lie in court -for assaulting ANOTHER girl - that he didn't even know me. Which was promptly proven a lie given the joint mortgage and bank accounts we previously held together and the police reports I made after our breakup! And he's in a position of trust in the community :eek:

shrimpy_80

These stories have really made me laugh! Katgrit's post reminded me of someone similar I worked with many years ago. There were so many stories but I can only remember these two...

He once told us that he had been employed as a HGV driver transporting silicon, but had been pulled over by MI5 one evening who told him that actually the silicon was concealing some sort of Class A drug (can't remember which one) and they had been monitoring the company for some time. They then recruited him as an undercover agent to help with their investigations.

Another time has was working for a taxi firm in the Midlands and got called to pick up in Brighton. He initially refused as it was too far but was told "when you know who you'll be picking up, you'll understand". So he drove down there to find out that his fare was Jim Davidson, only he didn't actually want to be driven anywhere he just took him out on the p**s all night in Brighton.

The best part was, this guy was only about 19 and didn't actually have a driving licence.

Thegirl

I used to work with a guy who claimed to have knocked a horse out by head-butting it when cornered by mounted police at a West Ham game. Bless him.

I used to date a guy who lied almost constantly. He claimed to have played for Accrington Stanley, he hadn't. Claimed he was ex-army, he wasn't. Favourite one though was one night down the pub when he claimed his name was not P Anthony Blackburn but Anthony P Blackburn but due his irish heritage his family called him by his middle name. I said this was rubbish, he insisted it was true. At which point I asked 'so to be clear, you are saying that your parents called you Tony Blackburn?'. I realised that being born in Tony Blackburn's hey day it was unlikely his parents were that sadistic, plus he lived with me and I had a file for all our important documents I had seen his birth certificate and knew it was rubbish. He swore point blank this was completely true.

Primrose

Years ago when mobile phones were first introduced and were a real novelty , knew somebody travelling on a long distance train journey where Show-Off Idiot appeared to talking loudly on his brick sized mobile phone . Unfortunately for him, somebody in the carriage was taken ill and passengers asked him if he could use his phone to call 999 or somebody to try and get an ambulance to meet the train at the next stopping point. Guy refused and after pressure it transpired he was embarrassedly forced to admit that his phone was actually an imitation one designed to impress. Apparently he disappeared off like a bat out of hell as soon as the train stopped at the next station. Bet he never tried that trick again!

mrcow

Primrose - I just love that. You kind of feel sorry for him. The thing is, there must have been a decent enough market for them in the first place for them to be manufactured. Makes you wonder who else was carrying them about?

Erinnire

Justamum wrote: »

Erinnire - I love your signature. My eldest daughter is called Erin, so I'm going to have to print it off and give it to her

They are the definitions of the name from Urban Dictionary You have to sort through some rubbish but there is some gems on there!

ClaireS93

Reading through the thread some of the liars were quite funny, it is amusing how many people pretend to be in the armed forces. But it got me thinking about all those I've known over the years... usually with me being on their bad side.

I was 16 when I had my first boyfriend, when we broke up he refused to believe that I didn't want to be with him any more. So told the Head of Sixth Form that I was pregnant, and that I was planning to have an abortion, while giving him no say in the future of his child. (We'd only ever kissed, and as far as I know kissing doesn't create babies... correct me if I'm wrong).

After finding out that he couldn't ruin my good reputation that way, he started using my "friends" to spread rumours through the student body. And teenagers can be cruel, the lies ended up with a group of girls phoning my house and telling my dad that they were the abortion clinic, and that my 'appointment had been rescheduled', (if you've ever seen the film "Mean Girls" it comes from there). I heard nothing about this happening until I'd gotten home from school that day, when I was sat down by my parents and was told what was happening.

The same boyfriend continued to call and text, until we involved the police (he'd threatened my lil sister, and had turned up at my doorstep in the middle of the night, asking my parents to let him beat me up...). He had the nerve to lie to the police, blaming everything on me.

My second boyfriend wasn't a good guy either. My college friend confided in me that she'd been sleeping with two guys and was pregnant by one of them; it later turned out that she wasn't preggers, but she had been sleeping with my boyfriend, who outright denied it until his mother asked me if I was "his girlfriend H___", when he decided to tell me everything.

I really despise people who lie just to hurt someone else. Although I'll admit to telling a few white lies to the shifty blokes in pubs... I'm happily single, but will create a boyfriend if required.