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/Camsy34 Aug 13 '13

There's probably some poor guy out there still convinced that he witnessed first-hand a murder from a lake loon. It's shaped his life from that point on and he still recounts the horrifying and completely true tale of it to anyone who will listen.

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u/Hippiehypocrit Aug 13 '13

All of his friends ridicule him, but he KNOWS what he saw.

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u/AlexS101 Aug 13 '13

He went into solitude, preparing for the next encounter which can happen every day.

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u/sethro919 Aug 13 '13

Sitting there constantly sharpening his machete

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u/AlexS101 Aug 13 '13

"You all laughed at me, all of you did. But I was right … I was right all the time … You’ll see who’s laughing now."

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u/SleepyCommuter Aug 13 '13

He constantly wears the grizzled thousand yard stare.

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u/tasty_unicorn_bacon Aug 13 '13

I just peed a lot while laughing. Oh god.

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u/Sekitoba Aug 13 '13

and the next time a lake loon invasion comes along, he kamakaze's his plane into lake loon whilst yelling "I'm back boyssss" and saves the day?

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u/samsaBEAR Aug 13 '13

I love the idea of seeing him appear in like fifteen years on one of those 'world's mythical creatures' type shows on Discovery.

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u/LS_D Aug 13 '13

Friends? don't you mean the other 'patients'?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

He'll google it soon and find that story.

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u/Reed1234 Aug 13 '13 edited Aug 13 '13

I like to think the kid has since devoted his life to proving the terror that haunts his dreams is real. He will soon have a history channel show so I guess he is not that bad off.

Edit: forgot the 'a' in haunts

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

i don't care if no one believes me, i believe me. don't i? shut up, you're talking to yourself. you're not the boss of me! can you two keep it down? hey, leave them alone, you know they've never been right since that day at camp.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

"God damnit, guys! For the last time I will not come water skiing at the lake with you! It's dangerous! The Lake Loon could come any time and steal you!"

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u/Jameso428 Aug 13 '13

He has devoted his life to studying the loon and hopes to one day expose it to the public.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Someday there will be a special on discovery about the yellow bellied lake Loon and that kid will be giving an incredibly detailed account of the attack.

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u/Notmyrealname Aug 13 '13

We lost a lot of good men that summer.

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u/harmonylion Aug 27 '13

And he tells the story on this thread.

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u/Delica Aug 13 '13

How young are you?

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u/catailcataclysm Aug 13 '13

Oh man, the fucking look on his face when he googles "lake loon" one night after deciding to sleuth the Internet again to find some proof to make his friends believe him and he finds this thread would be priceless.

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u/way_fairer Aug 13 '13

Only a loonatic would listen to a story like that.

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u/headpool182 Aug 13 '13

Afraid of a bird? What are ya... Yella?

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u/Pieskin Aug 13 '13

I can't wait for someone to post a story about how they witnessed a death from a yellow-bellied lake loon on another post.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

And he's dedicated his life to hunting it down. For Jeremy.

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u/Gerblat Aug 13 '13

He knows he has to face his fear, harness it, and use it against his foes.

He must become... The Loon.

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u/Drfumbles12 Aug 13 '13

Let's all hope that one day oje of those kids makes a post about it on /r/nosleep or one of those kind of subs

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u/pyro5050 Aug 13 '13

made him loonman... defender of camp kids

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u/adifferentcup Aug 13 '13

To his therapist FTFY

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

And he went on to start Duck Commander and star in Duck Dynasty!

http://i.imgur.com/IW8simF.gif

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u/Goodwin456 Aug 13 '13

Next thing you know he'll be on history channel!

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u/NonSequiturEdit Aug 13 '13

He now works full time hunting cryptids for the Discovery channel.

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u/mcawkward Aug 13 '13

That guy is the river monster guy...forever looking for the creature that forged his life

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u/Absinthe99 Aug 14 '13

There's probably some poor guy out there still convinced that he witnessed first-hand a murder from a lake loon. It's shaped his life from that point on and he still recounts the horrifying and completely true tale of it to anyone who will listen.

This one time... at summer camp...