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30 Times People Got Embarrassingly Busted For Their Ridiculous Lies, As Shared In This Twitter Thread
If you have ever been caught red-handed in a lie, you know how severely embarrassing it can be. Whether it was an innocent fib or full-blown deceit, your mind inevitably starts racing, thinking of all the ways to save your reputation. Luckily for us, though, these stories are hilariously entertaining. Recently, author and columnist Séamas O'Reilly posted a tweet about an elaborate childhood lie that involves a school essay, an "Icelandic Fish Festival" and the King honoring him by his presence and chatting with him directly.
As if the tale is not wild enough, he then asked his followers to share "the best, worst, and most excruciatingly stupid lies" they've ever been busted with — and boy, did they deliver! Thousands of people rolled up their sleeves and typed out the mortifying moments that turned out to be so ridiculous and amusing, that it almost pardons them of their wrongdoings.
So buckle up and grab a bucket of popcorn because we at Bored Panda have collected some of the funniest stories from this thread. Upvote the ones you liked most and be sure to share your own embarrassing mishaps with us in the comments!
Recently, author and columnist Séamas O'Reilly shared a wild story about how he got caught in an elaborate lie as a child
His tweet inspired other people to chime in with similar experiences
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Loading Screen Tips🇺🇦 4 years ago
*crash* 1:"ohhh carp" 2:"JERRY WHAT DID YOU DO?!" 1:"I don't know it was in the way!" 2:"Well put it back together!" 1:"Im trying, I'm trying."
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grotesqueer 4 years ago
Oh wow. Hopefully this was a while ago. Could be quite a nightmare for any trans man to get that kind of attitude. Calling to pay a gynecologist bill could be awful to begin with, not to mention with this kind of reception.
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Caprichosa 4 years ago
Shrek is a amazing hero! 🤣 I'm curious about the grading you got for that essay 😅
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Harrison Miller 4 years ago
"I read about in it my crystal ball that can see into the future."
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Wondering Alice 4 years ago
When my sister was little, I think maybe 4 ish, my mum was away and my dad suffered a bad electric shock. My sister went next door to get dinner because daddy was sleeping. They fed her, but it was hours before anyone checked on my dad. ( He was ok, but still a bit scared of electric)
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Hobby Hopper 4 years ago
Big fancy words does not equal good. Albert Einstein allegedly said “If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 4 years ago (edited)
Tame compared to the rest. I’ve pet a squirrel in a park once :)
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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 4 years ago
You missed out! Not all the books in school were worth reading but there were a lot of good books that I learned a lot from.
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PenitentEyeball 4 years ago (edited)
This thread is for lies, but in this tweet it sounds like they weren’t lying?
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Kate Jones 4 years ago
Back in the 90s you weren't supposed to give people your name or personal info online. You were always taught not to do that (now, of course, people give out everything). So I used to watch this show Alias and one of the 'aliases' of the secret agent was Kate Jones. I've literally used that name for over 20 years at this point because it just became habit to use it. I made up a profile for myself to use online. Anyway, I met a group of people online and we became great friends and for years they thought my name was Kate Jones and I gave them my fake story of who I am and I never told them the truth. We were friends for like 10 years and I felt like at that point I had lied for so long I felt weird about telling them the truth. I don't know them any more but I still feel bad about it.
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
What kind of joke is this? OP had to write an eight page essay at age 7???? This is hard for me.to believe.
Sam J 4 years ago (edited)
I don't think they had to, they just ended up writing it that long. Consider how large a seven year old may write, anyways. It's probably not a huge essay.
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Terry Tobias 4 years ago
When I was 5 and about to start kindergarten, the teachers mailed out a packet to the parents which included a badge with a number on it for the parents to pin to their kids. It designated which of the two classrooms the kids would go to. My best friend and I were disappointed because we had different numbers, but we wanted to be in the same class. Then one day while we were playing outside, we found a piece of paper with the number "2" on it which was my friends class. We decided that I would pin this piece of paper to my dress and they would let me into her class! Problem solved... or so I thought. I can still feel the embarrassment I experienced as I stood in that doorway and realized that the teachers knew what I was trying to do and they were amused by it!
Kate Jones 4 years ago
Back in the 90s you weren't supposed to give people your name or personal info online. You were always taught not to do that (now, of course, people give out everything). So I used to watch this show Alias and one of the 'aliases' of the secret agent was Kate Jones. I've literally used that name for over 20 years at this point because it just became habit to use it. I made up a profile for myself to use online. Anyway, I met a group of people online and we became great friends and for years they thought my name was Kate Jones and I gave them my fake story of who I am and I never told them the truth. We were friends for like 10 years and I felt like at that point I had lied for so long I felt weird about telling them the truth. I don't know them any more but I still feel bad about it.
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
What kind of joke is this? OP had to write an eight page essay at age 7???? This is hard for me.to believe.
Sam J 4 years ago (edited)
I don't think they had to, they just ended up writing it that long. Consider how large a seven year old may write, anyways. It's probably not a huge essay.
Load More Replies... Terry Tobias 4 years ago
When I was 5 and about to start kindergarten, the teachers mailed out a packet to the parents which included a badge with a number on it for the parents to pin to their kids. It designated which of the two classrooms the kids would go to. My best friend and I were disappointed because we had different numbers, but we wanted to be in the same class. Then one day while we were playing outside, we found a piece of paper with the number "2" on it which was my friends class. We decided that I would pin this piece of paper to my dress and they would let me into her class! Problem solved... or so I thought. I can still feel the embarrassment I experienced as I stood in that doorway and realized that the teachers knew what I was trying to do and they were amused by it!
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