32 Unbelievable Lies People Got Away With

Lying is one of the few personal freedoms we still have. I mean sure, if you lie hard enough it could be a “crime” for which you could “go to prison,” but there are also plenty of harmless lies you can fire off without it getting to that point. For instance, one Redditor, who described herself as “about as Chinese-looking as you could get” weaved a tale involving “peasant revolution, traveling mercenaries and shipwreck” to convince an entire classroom of kids that she was half-Jamaican.

Other Redditors have owned up to the biggest lies they’ve told that they still hold dear, including a scam that Apple definitely caught on to after the fact.