30 of the Most Obvious Lies People Have Been Told

‘He developed a theory on how to bend light’
30 of the Most Obvious Lies People Have Been Told

Every now and then, the well of creativity runs dry, and someone chooses to tell a less-than-believable lie instead of the truth. Seasoned liars have been there, but if you’re just starting to dip your toes into the world of dishonesty, Redditors have a few fibs for you to avoid. First and foremost, it’s important to master the plausibility of a lie before ironing out any finer details.

Back in the ‘90s, one Redditor had a coworker who loved to lie. Unfortunately, he didn’t use that passion to hone his craft. One day, this coworker said that he bought a surface-to-air missile from China and was keeping it stored at his mom’s house across town. Logic about missiles aside, they were both making $5 an hour at the time, making no part of the story believable. Learn from that man’s mistakes. 

Plenty of other people could’ve tried a little harder with their fibs. Other liars to learn from include a light-bender, a friend of Nelson Mandela and a state-registered human weapon.

isildrae 4y ago Guy | used to work with claimed he got 5 gold stars on every song on Guitar Hero 2. At the time | used to play every day and wasn't close to anything like this. It was just so far fetched. There are obviously people in the world who will have achieved this feat of excellence...but not him. I ended up playing with him a few months later, when someone brought a system in to work......I became confident in my assumption and that he was chatting shit. 57 ...
Peta_CZinNZ e 4y ago . Edited 4y ago My husband angrily telling me he DOES help me with the house chores by vacuuming kitchen 3-4 times a week. When asked how come | have NEVER seen him doing it, he claimed he does it before | come from work. | hid the vacuum attachment (can't vacuum without it), it has been 3 weeks and he still hasn't noticed hahaha 77 ...
mycatiswatchingyou 4y ago My best friend's ex-fiance tried to get us to believe that she was part of the Russian mafia and had killed 30 people. We're in our late 20s. 67 ...
tjsalierno 4y ago That my dad hadn't touched a single button on the remote and all the channels had become spanish on their own 81 ...
angrypunishment 4y ago When I was in highschool a classmate told me he makes over 20 dollars an hour part time as a banquet server. | did the exact same job and made $6.30/hr. I told him he was straight up lying to me and he was adamant that he wasn't. Told him to bring me a pay stub and prove it and he said I don't have one. This guy just regularly lied about all kinds of shit but this was the first one I remember. I'll never understand compulsive liars. (pretty sure our MANAGER wasn't making 20 an
DingJones 4y ago Classmate in 8th grade insisted that he and his dad had done a deep sea dive down to the Titanic over winter break. Sure thing, Sam. 130 ...
Caspers_Shadow 4y ago Our 6 year-old foster child swearing he washed his hair...it was perfectly dry. LMAO. Не would not back off the lie either. 133 ...
 9 4y ago e Edited 4y ago | used to work in social housing. I once had a guy try to blag unemployment and having no income / benefits. What shot his argument in the foot was the fact he was sat there in a full Tesco uniform. 117 ...
kmurph72 4y ago | worked with a guy who was a compulsive liar. after working with several people like this over the years I have come to understand that it is an odd personality trait. So this guy is a New York Jets fan as | am. I asked him one day when the jets were good if he saw the playoff game last night. Не told me he was at the game. Не could not have been at the game because he was at work with me at kickoff. 91 ...
 4y ago . Edited 4y ago That's not a hickey I bruised my neck helping my sister move today Thank you for the awards! Cant believe my top comment is about my shitty ex Imao 20K ...
ThursdayNextian 4y ago My co-worker once tried to convince me that centaurs exist. She said they lived in a gated community in Hollywood and did all the horse stunts for movies. Did we both know it was a lie? Yes. Did she ever admit it was? No and | admire that about her - 6.2K ...
Samyron1 4y ago My classmate was watching videos during online class while she was unmuted and said it was a math video... We were in Health class 2.1K ...
Miskelaneous 4y ago My ex told me he was in a car accident, totaled his car, broke a few ribs. (Не was trying to get sympathy so i would get back together with him.) Blaming the accident on me, since he was Distracted after the break up. Не sent me a photo of his car smashed in, i google searched it. First pic of his make/model that was wrecked. Не formulated the story after the picture. But here's the deal, the wheels didn't match. So i drove by his house that evening, car was fixed and in his driveway. Oh
thescrounger 4y ago 1 Edited 4y ago | had a friend in college who was a serial lair. Just all kinds of crazy things, that must've satisfied some psychological need, all of it harmless. Не told me he developed a theory on how to bend light passing through air and pitched the idea to the physics department, which set up and experiment and proved his theory to be true. Не was a general studies major. I kept pressing him Well which professor was it? How did the experiment work? Etc. Just kept digging deeper and changing the subject. 2.3K ...
fritzj 4y ago When my friend was an infant, her mother put her 2-year- old sibling in her crib while the mom left the room briefly. When mom came back, my friend was crying and had teeth marks on her forehead. When mom asked the older sibling what happened, she calmly said, She bit herself. 2.4K ...
 4y ago . Edited 4y ago A childhood friend and I met up for coffee one day after not meeting for a few years. Не casually let it slip that ever since he earned a black belt he has had to register with the state as a human weapon. - 9K ...
reusethisname 4y ago As a tax accountant, I'm told lies about how much money people actually made all the time during tax season. My favorite was a guy telling me he's broke because he only makes $35,000/year in NYC so my (very reasonable) fee is too much for him. Не says this after he asks me if he can deduct the new BMW 5 series he just bought his son all cash. - 22K ...
thursdayplurbonym 4y ago Used to have a friend that spewed bullshit all the time. Told me her bio parents, who live together, were divorced and seeing other people, and also that she had 25 siblings. Brought it up to her mom one time, which was an interesting conversation. She also told us she had cancer, and then a week later it was miraculously cured. Edit: spelling - 3.8K ...
 4y ago When my little brother mixed like 50 condiments, including sprinkles, ketchup, cereal n stuff, into a bag of popcorn an ate it telling us it was delicious when his face looked like hed just ate 10 extremely sour warheads at once. Не later admitted he just wanted us to eat it but we never did. 18K ...
PrometheusAborted 4y ago In 5th grade, a friend of ours used to try to convince us he used to hangout with the band Sublime. Among other stuff, he said the he was the person featured on the cover of their self-titled album and he used to do drugs with them and even tried heroin once. We were fucking 11 years old and he claimed this all happened two years before he even moved to our school. So yeah, a fucking nine year old did all this wild shit. We constantly called bullshit but he would just continue to lie and
AbeLincolnsBallsack 4y ago In the early 90's I was at work making $5/hour, and a со- worker looked me straight in The eye and said he had bought a surface to air missile from China and kept it stored at him moms house in a different city. Wtf dude? That's not even close to believable. 424 ...
natasha_c 4y ago My friend told me that getting a Peloton changed her life. | looked up her workout stats & she had used it 4 times in 5 months of owning it. Her husband fared a little better with using it 9 times. Don't know why this annoyed me so much. - 7K ...
Hambushed 9 4y ago I did not feed your dog any human food - my mom, while my dog pukes and shits all over my house. 604 ...
VixenRoss 4y ago My little girl told everyone in the supermarket that our cat died and she was sad. We don't own a cat. 12K ...
lurkity_mclurkington . 4y ago When a co-worker told my own story back to me as his own. Twice. 14K ...
MeowthThatsRite 4y ago In high school a buddy told me that he didn't steal our other buddies watch. Не was wearing the watch when | asked him about it. 43K ...
Knight_Owls 4y ago When I was a kid, the internet wasn't a thing so, my friends were whoever happened to live in the neighborhood. One kid was a well known liar and exaggerator. We were maybe 14 years old at this time. This kid could play guitar and was always talking himself up about it and talking about his band. Не actually could play, but his band did not exist. One day, I called him at his house, from my house. I don't remember what it was about, but a few minutes into the conversation, told me, by the way,
sunset117 4y ago My first watch was an omega and I saved up on high school to get it. One of my good friends back then asked to wear it for 1 period and would give it back at lunch. Не begged and begged so as a hs kid I gave in or couldn't keep saying no I guess, weak on me, obviously. Well, Не smashed it (apparently smashed the glass to test it) gave it back and said it was a fake and that's why the glass cracked and said he didn't do it and it just fell apart.
Monkey-Tamer 4y ago When I was a public defender my dipshit client called up his victim from the jail phone the night before his trial. Не said kill repeatedly in an attempt to intimidate her. When | was telling him how stupid this was his excuse was that he was watching Kill Bill and someone changed the channel on the cell block communal TV. That dumbass is now doing 28 years in prison. 2.4K ...
j1mmyjazz 4y ago I worked with a habitual liar. Не owned a stake in a diamond mine, had met Nelson Mandela, had water skiied the entire coast of South Africa barefoot and could keep his eyes open when sneezing. But the very best was that he had shaped by hand a lens in a school project. It was later sold to NASA who used it in a telescope 42 ...

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