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.

someone I know claimed (probably still does!) to work for MI5!!

yeah right ....your fat, old, a liar, no idea on technlogy......

he`s just been "on the sick" for years lol!

Getting a hankering for watching The Inbetweeners, Jay would definitely revire sone of these

A girl I was at primary school with used to tell a tale about how her mum had almost swum the channel. She got more than half way to France, apparently, but then felt too tired to finish so she swam back to Dover.

DS was about 6/7 years old and I had noticed he had done a wee in the bin next to the loo.

When asked why, his reply "it's not my fault, my willy dragged me to it"

He is now an adult and thankfully no longer wee's in bins.

She also told me she was an accountant.

Why would anyone would profess to being an accountant if they weren't? It's not the coolest thing in the world

My ex was full of BS. Told me he had been on a 9-day caving expedition where one of the members died from hypothermia on the way in and they had to pass the body on the way out. The story haunted me for years and then I met someone who had been with him on the expedition in question, which had lasted 3 days and on which nobody died. He also made up stories involving me, right under my nose, to entertain dinner guests and accused me of having holes in my memory. In the presence of his adult sons, he started reminiscing about festival costumes he had made for them, at which point his elder son very firmly said it was their mother who had made them. Stupid me, took me four years to leave.

Just remembered another one. My grandmother had to have a hysterectemy during the late '60s - three years ago, in her 80s, mind, she claimed that her GP had told her she was going through "the change"...

We're not entirely sure what on earth was going on there, but as my mother and aunt - both nurses, mind - asked her how that was possible, given she'd had everything whipped out following her youngest child's birth some 40-odd years earlier... she just looked blank and changed the subject.

My father also told me a few days back about how a friend of his since they were 15 or 16, who he served in the Army with, had been a bit of a Walter Mitty character who told people he'd served with the SAS. Wore the badge and everything, even in front of his fellow retired soldiers - who all knew he was lying.

My daughter - who does have MH problems - also goes through life telling outrageous stories. Apparently she's selling scripts to film studios in LA, and was heading off there for a meeting to sell the rights to something she'd written... when actually? She was on a family holiday in Devon (I think she forgets I can access her social media accounts, at times!). She's also claimed that I've died twice to two separate bosses, and that she's been unfairly sacked from three jobs, when actually? She walked out/was fairly dismissed due to not turning up for shifts. Everyone loves her upon meeting her, all the men fancy her, she has such a hectic social life. It got so toxic that she now lives with my parents, because - and this will make me sound like a shit mother; I get that, and I agree, I probably am - I needed to protect my younger child from her lies. A few years ago, as I've written about on here before, she lied to the police about me; claimed I'd assaulted her, that I was/am an abusive parent. I was arrested and put in a cell for hours on end... until one of the officers turned up to take her statement and worked out, from my statement, that she'd lied (I admitted that she'd alleged various things about people attacking her before, and I'd been begging for help for her, from our GP, for years, who'd ignored me). But we had SS breathing down our necks for a while. And then, last year, she rang the police and alleged that my 14 year old son was assaulting me... so that was another visit, where I had to explain that she's mentally ill, my son and I'd exchanged a brief "you have homework; turn the TV off!" exchange, the PO spoke to my son, and left. She's also claimed that she's been stalked, assaulted, my ex kicked her in the stomach when she was a child (I was there; saw the exchange and know for a fact that he didn't), and a whole host of other things.

It's mental illness, these people just can't help themselves. My daughter's admitted that she feels a compulsion to tell tall tales to people... and can't understand why/how that's wrong. Maybe she's inherited it from my grandmother. Wouldn't surprise me.

@Reeah that's so funny, glad to hear he has grown out of bin weeing

I had a friend - no longer a friend because of the constant lies she used to tell - who said her uncle had stomach cancer. Among the whoppers she told me were he had been given antibiotics instead of his chemo on one occasion, he had been told by his consultant that he was ok to go on holiday abroad then got stopped boarding the plane because the same consultant changed his mind and 'called security' and the biggest lie of all was that her uncle had an operation and his wife had a call from the hospital to say that he had passed away on the operating table then 30 minutes later had another call had a call to say that he hadn't, it had been a mistake.
I cut ties in the end, just couldn't put up with listening to the bullshit.

A colleague bragged to me about her rich brother who paid everything for her because she was so great and deserved it, like that expensive vacation last year in Dubai. I concluded that she apparantly forgot that she borrowed the money off me for that vacation, it wasn't that expensive and she paid back in installments because she was so skint.

I enjoyed that conversation, I really did.

I loved w someone at uni who was a compulsive liar. We all knew and would roll eyes when she started w the BS. Can’t remember them
Now but it was really obvious stuff.
Have also been a victim of more serious lying which compromised us financially. Thankfully it was sorted out before any major damage done but I was gobsmacked at how far people will go not to pay up.

I knew a crazy lady about 20 years ago in London, she played bongos for Marc Bolam and t trex. We used to put it on the Duke box and she would air bongo away. She was also a Nun and had a millionaire boyfriend from Tunisia where the government had given her citizenship for all her charity work with starving kids. She was obviously as mad as a box of magnetised pins and didn't have any care or support from anyone. She was committed in the end, which was a blessing because she became more and more erratic and the lies got bigger and more dangerous. Telling strangers that she had been raped by x and strangers not knowing she wasn't right kicking the shit out of x.

The mind boggles at these! Wow.

I'm in Ireland, and particularly fascinated at how people get away with saying family members have died. That just couldn't happen here because everyone will look up the 'death' on rip.ie and there is sure to be a contingent of colleagues at the removal part the funeral (the night of shaking hands, as I've seen it referred to here). I've known people to drive 4 hours to a colleague's relative's funeral to shake hands for 2 mins and then come home again.

There is no way you could get away with a blatant lie about a parent or child's death.
Unless Irish mumsnetters can prove me wrong?

I had a friend when I was a teenager who'd
shagged a famous movie star. She was also crippled with arthritis but continued to enjoy and achieve many unconfirmed awards for tap dancing and fencing. She'd shagged the history teacher. She'd written an amazing song which she had composed late at night when she was drunk and so sad, I thought it sounded amazing, apparently so did Beverly Craven who had a hit with Promise Me a decade earlier 😁

A friend when I was younger told some right corkers. Memorably that her boyfriend had given her an STI but “the doctors wouldn’t tell her the name of it” and that she had allergies to both nuts and eggs (yet never once informed waitressing staff/queried the ingredients of anything).

I’m allergic to nuts but never mention anything in restaurants any more.

#livinglifeontheeege

I worked with a girl a few years ago who told me she had been gang raped by three guys whilst on holiday. She told me a couple of weeks after that she was pregnant. Then she had had a miscarriage, tried to commit suicide and had been admitted to hospital miles away.
It all turned out to be bullshit. All the hours I and our boss had spent trying to support her, the midnight phone calls trying to talk her out of suicide, all the mental anguish. And it was all lies.

Someone told me leaving the EU without a deal was dangerous.

The biggest bullshit I've ever heard was from the person who told me that leaving the EU without a deal would be absolutely fine.

Apart, that is, from the person who said we would have left by March 29th ...

I was a member of a group for eBay sellers a few years ago and the most flamboyant member of the group told us all about his love live, the younger women he shagged and his evil ex wife. He even invented a story about his daughter having a placental abruption and nearly dying, and her baby being stillborn as a result. Something about him didn't add up (noticeably his lifestyle compared to what we knew about his struggling business).
When his boyfriend of 25 years retired and this man stopped working at his business so they could travel together, it came out that the whole thing was a lie. Nobody cared about him being gay, of course, but I have found it very difficult to forgive the lies about the baby, because I feel that was aimed at me (it was a small group and he know my history). He did receive both gifts and cash as a result of his lies. As far as I know, all the other group members are still in regular contact with him though.

The only other one I can think of was when I was at boarding school, there was a day girl who was very vocal about her lifestyle- said her dad has a Porsche, she went on exotic holidays and her whole family was dripping cash. She never invited friends over to her house, because her mum hated noise or something.

One year, she had a birthday party and sent out invitations with the address on- it was in an unusually expensive part of town and I suppose people were impressed, but didn't think it was anything unusual until they had travelled to the address and been dropped off by their parents only to find that the family didn't actually live there! it turned out that her dad was a bank clerk and her mum did cleaning jobs or something to pay for her school fees (a very similar story to several others in the class).

She never came back to school, but we were all given a bollocking about how it was all our fault for being shallow. I really felt for her best friend, who was lovely and couldn't have cared less how much money she had. There were very rich kids at the school, but also plenty on scholarships or being paid for by a rich relative.

@BrainScience It seems that lots of people really wanted Nigel Mansell to be their uncle! I too know somebody that said this when we were young.

Not nearly as bad as others but
I had a boss who didn't like a member of the public who assisted us with a certain event and gave lots of her time unpaid to do this thing. Crazy boss didn't like this lady for no real reason (her competence perhaps)
Boss told us the lady had said she didn't want to do the thing anymore. Boss told the lady we (the subordinates who dealt with her) didn't want her doing the thing any more.
Cue a devastated volunteer who thought we had all gone behind her back and didn't have the decency to just tell her. And after one conversation where we all looked shocked the volunteer believed us but the boss must have known she would have talked to us - we were going from the boss' office to the event

I had a friend who had had a rough time for a few years....everyone rallied around as you do etc but she got used to be put on a pedastil and everything had to be about her even when her friends were having a bad time....no we all had to remember what she had been through.
Some things she came out with I thought were for attention but this time I knew it was bull shit......

My friend had a cousin who lived nearby. She had a huge yard and MF stored some stuff there.I was talking to the cousin and she said she was planning on putting her house up for sale next year.
She mentioned that she had informed MF that all the stuff stored there would have to go but she had about 10 months to do it.

I never mentioned this conversation to MF.

A year later MF and I were at a party......she was slagging her cousin off saying she had been round to inform her that the new owners would get the key next week and alll the stuff had to be gone......MF moaned to all that would listen how unfair it was that she only had a few days to clear all that stuff. She loved all the attention and how awful her cousin was......I just never said a word.

My ex fished with his ex and got with me 2 days after... When we had been together a couple of months he called me after work and claimed his ex's dad had been on the phone to tell him his ex was in hospital after overdosing on paracetamol. I felt awful and agreed we should keep our distance for a few weeks out if respect for her. Found out after speaking to her last year (five years later) that all this was completely fabricated. I confronted him and he claimed he never said this. Sick. I don't know why he would have lied, it wasn't an excuse to finish with me?

The one I mentioned up thread, “Dave” who lied about his mum dying was very popular in the club we went in. His tall stories were notorious, some of them so outrageous that they were hilariously funny. The thing is, they were all told with a very serious expression on his face, like he was daring you to disbelieve him. He was so entertaining, an outrageous liar but at the same time a very likeable man. He just couldn’t help it.