Another whopper though this one was a slow burner!
Back in the mists of time when I were a nipper and suffering the awfulness of adolescence, I very briefly dated the 'new boy' in school, he was 'dark and mysterious' well he was if you were 15 anyway..
He told us how he was adopted, how there was mysterious circumstances around his adoption... and a lot of other billy-bullshitter tall tales. I dated him for approximately 2 days (long enough to bunk off school with him, for which I got in serious trouble and he totally threw me under the bus!).. On non uniform day he came in in his Army Cadets uniform... claiming he really was in the army (at 15!)...
I forgot about him for four or five years, bumped into him in town, he immediately started spouting stories about how he'd beaten cancer, was working for the secret services, had been stabbed, had been tortured with cigarette burns (showed me the 'stab wound'... a mere scratch of a scar, and the burns...)
I bumped into him again about a year later, he had clearly forgotten some of the stories but he'd rescued a child and been shot.. and showed me the same cigarette burns that were now bullet wounds.
Wind time forward again and some of my old school friends on FB are sharing a few newspaper articles about him and tagging me 'Oi, Widdlin, didn't you get off with him back in 1900andblahdeblah...' cringe...
He'd been caught out, now living in Scotland, pretending to be ex military, getting his photo in the paper with Alex Salmond. Looks like he'd spent his entire life up to that point, telling fantastic and elaborate lies. He'd borrowed uniform and medals... a proper Walter Mitty.
The newspaper articles are still online for those who want to google 2012 'Walter Mitty Alex Salmond' will find them!
Think 15 year old me got away lightly, he duped several woman and was an abusive shit as well as a liar.