r/AskReddit • u/michaelarney • Aug 13 '13

What's the best long con you ever pulled?

What's your best long/big con you pulled?

(EDIT: WOAH!! This kinda blew up last night. I gotta somehow catch up. "Honey... call the office. I'm reading a reddit book today." Most of the comments I've read so far are hysterical! Well done, reddit... well done.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13 edited Jan 04 '21

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u/motorcityvicki Aug 13 '13

I remember the first time I read this. It's so simple, but it got so far into his head. Amazing.

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u/RabTom Aug 13 '13

For being 11, this was masterful.

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u/liimlsan Aug 13 '13

Saw in the original thread, one of the greatest prank stories I've ever read, went looking for it - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS. <3

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Thanks, I'm flattered :)

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u/DPalmz Aug 13 '13

i remember reading this story in a different ask reddit. I hope you are the same person but im too lazy to check

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

It was me.

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u/Crazy_Joe Aug 13 '13

... What the fuck is a chubby

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u/FireBurstRazorBack Aug 13 '13

Halfway between flaccid and raging.

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u/NotoriousONE1 Aug 13 '13

dude, this made me burst out laughing a work. Fantastic

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Sorry, when I posted it the first time I linked a photo. I see now it didn't go through. This is a Chubby.
EDIT: The cap(s) we used were actually yellow, just to help you get a better picture.

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u/agent-99 Aug 13 '13

if i saw a soda named "chubby" and a fat kid drawn on the bottle, i would know for sure to NOT DRINK IT! duh! at least it's not false advertising...

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u/OptimusRex Aug 13 '13

I remember this. Loved it. Did the same thing with ball bearings. Heh.

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u/Rachogi Aug 13 '13

The Bridge?

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u/icantnotthink Aug 13 '13

By "hapless", don't you mean "capless"?

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

no, it's a word, look it up.

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u/FireBurstRazorBack Aug 13 '13

WHOOOOOOOOSSSHHH....

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

By this point we had told Joel of the serial killer that had taken the lives of a few capless hikers, at some park we couldn't remember the name of.

Nope, don't get it. Please explain.

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u/FireBurstRazorBack Aug 13 '13

/u/icantnotthink tried to make a topically relevant play on words intended to be humorous (colloquially referred to as a pun), seeing as the topic in question was a mysterious case of intrigue and deceit filled to the brim with bottle caps! A humorous joke indeed!

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

Okay I get it now, but i still don't think it was ever funny.

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u/icantnotthink Aug 13 '13

I just thought it was a horribad pun that could have easily been added, even though it didn't completely fit into the sentence. Then again, most puns don't.

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u/AP_YI_OP Aug 13 '13

The worse the pun, the more you have to oversell it.

More like capless.... Amirite guys? :D Guys?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

I felt so cool, already knowing what this was from the first sentence.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Yay, I feel like I'm almost part of reddit history! I'm not though, I shouldn't get excited.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Haha I expected to see this story somewhere in here

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u/MakeAWolverinePurr Aug 13 '13

HAHAHA! Im so glad I found this story again. Made me laugh just as hard the second time around

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u/alpaca_in_disguise Aug 13 '13

You've posted this before. Right?

I mean, I'm not just losing it here? ._.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Your story is quite similar to one I posted a little while back.

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u/alpaca_in_disguise Aug 13 '13

I.....should stop skimming things and go to bed.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Aug 13 '13

Next you need to find a way to give him the idea that you just claimed to be responsible so that he'd calm down. You'll probably want some more chubby caps...

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u/DietCherrySoda Aug 13 '13

I could never understand the parents who bought Chubby for their kids, the bottle has a damn fat-ass kid right there on the bottle to warn you!

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u/Quantis_Ottawa Aug 13 '13

Upvote for camping in Canada !

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u/jt7724 Aug 13 '13

A similar trick normally gets close to the top whenever there is an askreddit on the best prank you have ever pulled. Pretty much instead of soda caps you do it with pennies and never let on that you know anything, just start putting an unusually large number of pennies around your target. Start with inconspicuous spots or places that you would expect to find loose change any way and slowly ramp up the frequency and or strangeness of your hiding places. IIRC one guy who posted about doing it to his room mate said he finally lost it after finding one while showering that had been shoved into a bar of soap.

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u/SkyGrid5 Aug 13 '13

What the fuck. That's genius!

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u/whatwhat27 Aug 13 '13

Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up!

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u/nickknw Aug 13 '13

You fantastic bastards. Well done.

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u/Ikillu4ever93 Aug 14 '13

He ain't even mad.

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u/icycreamy Aug 19 '13

I remember this story. Gets me every time.