What is the biggest BS story someone has told you?

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In school a friend claimed he was sat on the side of the road and a guy in a car drove past and took his DR pepper.

I know a lady who used to be the landlady for me and my ex, she was about 30 years older than us and everyday she's regale us with stories of how she used to be a famous lingerie model in Sweden, a formulae one driver, an undercover agent for the CIA, a royal aid, a manger of a 'top charting band' - she's never give enough details and go all coy when proved for any.. or was obviously all bullshit and she was in fact a barmaid most her life (nothing wrong with that) anyway, in the end my ex and I spilt up due to a lot of inappropriate behaviour by her to cause trouble and now their happy together, him 33 her 66.

Someone at work (engineering) told me he was approached by a customer to do some cash in hand work testing equipment. It had to be done in a short period of time so he was getting paid a million pounds. Cash in hand for a million pounds! I think it might have been over a weekend or something mad like that. to be fair I'd stopped listening at this point, I was still boggling at the logistics of someone giving him a million pounds in cash.

Supposed friend told me she had life-limiting illness, was non-contact with abusive parents and needed cash for treatment. Whole thing turned out to be bunkum. She's now a life coach & speaker.

A colleague transferred to our office from another location. Shortly after being introduced to him he asked me a favour, could I cover his shift on Saturday, his mom had died and the boss said he could only attend the funeral if he found cover.

I was outraged, I approached the boss and told him what kind of an organisation are we that we can't allow a man to attend his mother's funeral.
"Ah so you met X did you? Don't worry that's the 5th time his mom's passed away, I spoken to her she's alive and well in Lincolnshire "

Years ago now I knew someone who liked to tell '
Tall stories' : she claimed to have ' never have been to London ' once.
A few months later she said she went to the original live aid concert in 85 at the old ( london) Wembley stadium! She often just made things up.
It doesn't hurt anyone but makes me wonder why.
You need a better memory if your going to embellish things!

A mum I knew from baby group told me that she had that year been a lines judge at Wimbledon, she’d stepped in at the last minute when her friend was taken ill.

She made up lots of other stuff too, and I always wonder if telling her casual bf that she was infertile before miraculously falling pregnant with his baby was another of those lies.

I can't help wondering have any of these anecdotes been made up for our benefit... ?! Or if the person who told the lie is actually the author of the post and is just regaling us with one from their archives ...

A friend from senior school.
Had a whole bunch of friends from outside school, she really was little miss popular.
Except they were all fake! They couldn't come to her birthday party as one of her rivals had her party the same day, they'd always be randomly busy or something.
Then she claimed she knew a cameraman who worked on a kids TV program. Of course, she'd swung it that a group of us could go on said program. I wasn't allowed, my mum said no.
So she asked a whole load of others from the class. Kept up the bullshit even to the day before said appearance when, to everyone's suprise it was cancelled last minute.
She also developed an obsession with a much older boy at the school. Actually, one of her made up friends had the obsession. It involved passing him odd notes and thoroughly creepy bags of gifts. He actually confronted her in the end and told her to stop as it was incredibly weird. She denied everything, pinned it all on said made up friend.
I'm ashamed of how long it took me to twig it was all fake. I never directly confronted her about it all, but the bullshit calmed down when we hit A level years. In that time she only had a totally made up boyfriend for a while.
We're just Facebook acquaintances now and I'm not honestly sure how true anything she says really is.

Work colleague. Joined the team on the Monday, medical appointment on the Wednesday announced cancer on the Friday.

Started walking with a stick, progressed to wheelchair, got help from us all to be toileted, head shaved, messaging the boss to pick her up from hospital, visiting the hospice and lying to them - the full works.

All bullshit, and considering we were all under 90 consultation for redundancy/ applying for jobs elsewhere and other offices even more galling.

A good own recently was the lady on here saying her very normal mate claimed to be secretly married to a well known actor and they had 6 children! I still marvel at that one.

I knew a guy who said he couldn't drink milk because his bones were so strong and he'd be as strong as a chimp and would be able to just kick through walls.

Someone who used to drink in the club we went in years ago was well known for telling whoppers. One night he got called to the phone (no mobiles then) he came back and started sobbing. He told us he’d just had news his mother had died. Everyone was upset for him and consoling him etc. Fast forward several years and I bumped into his wife in the street, we were chatting away and she told us “Dave’s” mum is coming to stay for a visit. Before I could stop myself and save all embarrassment I just blurted out. “But she died about 5 years ago”. Subject was very swiftly changed. This woman was well used to her husbands whoppers.

The son of my FIL's next door neighbour told us he gave up his job as an Anaesthetist at a children's hospital but he's never been to uni so God knows how he managed to qualify.

He was then out of work when the hospital suspected he had throat cancer.

He then told us he was a Paramedic and when he was out if work after that he'd left because the hospital thought he had kidney cancer.

Then he told us in great detail about landing a job as a Police Officer. One day I asked him how his new job was going and he said he wasn't a police officer, I must have misunderstood, he was a PCSO. He had definitely told us all about how he got the job and calls he'd been out on with other policemen and criminals he'd caught. I then realised it was because I'd asked in front of his mum so he couldn't keep up the lies in front of her.

He has kept a large metal disabled sign plate on his house and gets angry if anyone parks in the advisory disabled bay outside his house yet cannot produce a valid blue badge for his car.

These lies have been told over years. He's still alive and goes to the gym every day. Maybe he's found the cure for cancer?

He's a definite Walter Mitty character. No MH issues, just a big bloody liar.

Ex boyfriend from years and years ago. I found long scratches on his back that looked like nail marks. Told me he had been messing around with his mates in the park and one of them had chased him with a stick and made the marks on his back. I was so gullible and he lied so barebarefacedly that I let it go. Even though he was a fast runner and there was no way his mate could have caught up with him!

Someone very close to me at the time (now n/c for other reasons) said my ex had received invite to my wedding and was planning on going. Obviously complete bollocks designed to fluster me and cause drama.
I slapped a poker face on and said Really? It would be great to see him.

There's no way Ex ever got an invite. And he was a perfectly normal, non stalkerish guy. It was just shit stirring and attempted mind fuckery.

Employee phoned in sick, then next day there was an article on the front page of the local newspaper, with photos of RNLI rescuing girls from an inflatable dinghy which had been blown out to sea.
She had skived off and gone for an away day at the seaside!

An old colleague: she ran a marathon with no training, every man she met fell instantly in love with her and so many more exaggerations/lies. She had lots of issues I'm sure

One of the bridesmaids at my wedding. Said her parents arrived to collect her from my wedding early, and she’d already made them wait in the car park for an hour but she couldn’t make them wait any longer, so she left. She sent all this in a text, when she knew I didn’t have my phone on me. It was halfway through the speeches.

Shame she’d told everyone on her table that her friends with benefits fancied a shag and that’s where she was going. She also took four massive filled bags from the sweets table for him as a gift too apparently

I have a friend who regularly lies about health issues to get sympathy from complete strangers she's never met/never likely to meet, on the Internet. In the last 15 years, she's had cancer three times, her children have all been randomly diagnosed with various life-long conditions (autism, something to do with the larynx, and ADHD) - yet those of us who actually know her/her beautiful if slightly feral children, know it's all bullshit. Her youngest was touted as being on the spectrum and ADHD, because she's ferociously spoiled... but strangers on the Internet were "oh, no...!!! You're a saint!!! How do you cope?!" about it all, whilst we were all about the lies.

Unfortunately for my friend, most of us are also friends with both her ex-husband, and her current husband... and they say there's nothing wrong with the children they individually share with them. Her ex-husband actually has primary custody of their daughter, yet friend spouts on about how involved she is in the child's life (she's really not: her ex-husband does everything, and is doing a brilliant job of raising a happy girl who is doing excellently in school... yet friend spouts on about how her oldest is bullied, and suffers from autism and social anxiety problems!). As far as I know, she sees her oldest once a month for a few hours - because her ex-husband is anxious about how unstable my friend is, mentally.

Because we all know that friend isn't exactly well, mentally. But - as far as we know, anyway - she's not endangered her children in any physical way... so there's not really a lot we can actually do about it, other than be there for her/her family. I know she loves her youngest two immensely (hence the spoiling, I think). We only caught on to her tactics when she told us she had terminal cancer when we were in our early 20s (so almost 20 years ago), and two of us were worried and wanted to know what we could do to help/support her and her parents. We approached her mother who rolled her eyes and said "oh, there's nothing wrong with her: don't worry!". Turned out that she'd been kicked out of university and returned home for that reason - not because she was dying of cancer. But we had worried, and I know that I'd lost sleep over the possibility of losing one of my oldest, closest friends. Since then? We don't tend to believe a word that comes out of her mouth. She announced her second wedding - and not one of us believed her. And, of course, one of the guests assaulted her at the wedding... so she claimed. The guest? Wasn't even there. Had declined the invite because she actually did have cancer and wasn't well enough to attend (thankfully, she's doing okay now). But strangers on the Internet? Lapped it up and fed into the sympathy/attention machine...

my aunt once had a boyfriend that came out with some right whoppers! these included:

• he’d been in the falklands war and described in great detail how he’d saved his entire squad (not sure that’s the right word) and had been awarded the victoria cross. going by the age he told us he was he’d have been eight years old when this happened...
• he’d been in a coma for seven months after his ex wife slowly poisoned him with a deadly poison. when he finally came round he was then put into the witness protection programme because his ex wife was apparently highly dangerous.
• he’d won £26 million dollars on the american lottery but he was unable to collect it because he couldn’t afford the plane ticket to america.
• he’d been a security guard for the queen and had once foiled an assassination attempt that then had to be kept top secret in order to stop copy cats.

honestly these are just the memorable ones, i’m pretty sure 99% of what came out of his mouth were lies. when he split up with my aunt he then apparently finally got his millions and was training to be a stunt man whilst engaged to a top supermodel that he couldn’t name for security reasons - all whilst living in a caravan on his parent’s driveway.

When I was about 13/14 one friend told me she had cancer and she used to take these tablets every day from a blue and white striped packet. I saw her take them.

I was so upset that I couldn't keep this to myself and after a while I told another friend. My 2nd friend blamed me for making it up. Thankfully when she realised how upset I was we went to see the 'cancer sufferer' and she showed us her tablets. She kept it up for quite a while before getting the all-clear.

However, one day her DM was looking for girl's DF's anti-malarial drugs and they were the tablets in the blue and white striped packet.

These are all shocking. But anyone else extra at people saying their own kids are dead??!!

In uni I lived with a girl who lied with gay abandon, her fibs included:
She could win any fight because she had boxed with tom hardy (!!!)
She had been stabbed in the tummy twice (lifted her shirt up while drunk and there were no scars)
She had been offered a place in the royal shakespere company but her parents wouldn’t let her take it
I could go in... she was a bit of a head case

My step brother is fantasist and has changed his name and history to his new wife. He uses a middle name and has added a new surname to make him look like he aristocratic, I can’t contact her and as he hasn’t ever introduced us and I suspect that he has killed us off in the story he has spun her.

Try being the DD who features highly in many of these stories. Apparently I'm in a wheelchair, my cousin who contracted me in great distress was very worried about me . I guess my mum thought as my auntie lives in Canada and rarely comes home she would get away with that 'white lie'. Frankly it's embrassing and makes me incredibly angry.

I'm trying very hard to ignore the time she told the whole family she had cancer of the lymph nodes. And no, my dad and I have no idea why she does it but to be honest I try and avoid contact with her. He says it's 'very annoying' and that's as far as it goes.