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30 Times People Got Busted For Their Crystal-Clear Lies And Others Shared Them In This Group
Nobody is innocent when it comes to exaggerating things we’ve seen, heard, or participated in. Like, that smashing b-day party of yours in an abandoned castle that got everyone talking. Except that it was your uncle’s porch and the only guests were your twin cousins from Wyoming.
We’ve all been there, done that, but sometimes things go from exaggerated to plain made-up in an instant. And there’s a subreddit called r/thatHappened dedicated entirely, as its description says, to “true stories that are 100% true and actually happened.” You get the sarcasm.
As for evidence, the 1.3 million members of the community are sharing screenshots of people lying their hearts out with a straight face. Trust me, the result is totally hilarious.
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Classmate Calls Out Dipsh**
It’s True, I Was The Box Of Tampons
Ultimate Survival Mode
All humans possess the ability to lie: it’s something we’re born with and we die with. One study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology found that 60 percent of people can’t go 10 minutes without telling a lie. At the same time, another study published by the American Psychological Association suggested that lying less was linked to better average health, both mental and physical.
So, why on earth do we lie, then? To find out, Bored Panda reached out to Traci Brown, a fraud-busting body language expert. It turns out, "we learn the benefits of lying when we’re little, like protecting ourselves from punishment or to get what we want. Situations have more gravity as we get older and lying can protect our relationships or even millions in fraud theft,” Traci explained.
Ya Cause Being Asleep In Your Car Means You’re In College!
Baby Boomers, Gosh
Forgot To Mention, We Both Have Amnesia
Sometimes, we lie just to make other people around us feel good about themselves, so not all lies are inherently bad. But it turns out that “people who tend to lie frequently do for a couple of reasons: survival or they can't tell the difference between truth and a lie.”
Traci said that mental illness can also be the reason for an urge to lie. “It runs the scale from narcissism to psychopaths. And these folks make up about 15% of the population.”
And The Trainer Was Fired
Invited To Teach Sex Ed Because Of Immense Experience
What Magazine Has A Full Map And A Picture Of Jesus?
Lying big always starts from simple steps, aka lying small. First, as kids, we learn to tell pro-social lies, like telling your grandma you like that new hand-knit sweater she gave you on Christmas when, in fact, you can’t even look at it.
According to this study from the journal Nature Neuroscience, “when people tell small lies, the brain becomes desensitized to the pang of guilt that dishonesty usually causes.”
The more little pro-lies we give, the less guilt we feel, and the more it snowballs into bigger lies that suddenly become way easier. In some cases, people get so used to falsifying or fabricating things that they start believing their lies. At some point, it turns into habit and it becomes incredibly hard to quit for good.
And Then, The Vaccines Gave Everyone Autism
NASA Employee Giving Out Top Secret Info
Laced Her Feet And Didn’t Notice
She Was On Superhearing Cruiselines
Sorry, What The Hell Did I Just Read?
Ah yes, because chickens that aren't slaughtered in your backyard, but come prepackaged to the store from somewhere else, are all grown on trees and plucked from the branches when ripe...
In The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle The Lion Claps Tonight
This Is Probably The Worst One I Have Ever Seen In The Wild
Medical Expert Here
Yeah, Okay Buddy
Delusional Tall Man Thinks Women Openly Drool Over His Phenomenal Height
The scary part is some dudes are really so deranged, they'll mistake any kind of old look (even disgust) for lust. I had a dude follow me home from the subway one day asking for a date. I'd been staring at him on the subway because he was fat, ugly and looked like he hadn't showered in a week and he apparently mistook that for interest on my part!!
Sure Buddy
When They Have Tests In Kindergarten
And Then The Sales Went Up $500%
And Then Everyone Clapped
Thousands of doctors, medical officials, scientists, reputable organisations, and other experts, asking you to wear a mask is considered “fake news,” yet the claim of one "nurse" is suddenly considered a universal opinion? And speaking of which, we are here to deal with facts, not opinions.
Didnt Miss A Word
Sucking Out The Venom
Schools Sure Are Conscious Of Students' Music Tastes Nowadays
3-Year-Old Is Wiser Than Us All
Her Bio Says She's 21
Hmmm
And then a pianist shows up to play happy ending music while they walk into the sunset and also the sun is clapping.
Haven't you ever been tease-threatened? My grandma was always threatening to peel her kids, amongst them my dad. My dad in turn threatened to nail my head to the floor - borrowed that from a Monty Python sketch.
I would have been more concerned she hadn't eaten and mom wouldn't feed her?!
But - if you believe the story - how do we know if the kid was telling the truth or just saying that to get more food?
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Such a weird way to threaten a child, grammar was the true victim in this case :'(
sounds like my mom also, 69 upvotes on the post, let's keep it that way
So you stood there and said nothing, didn’t do anything, and magically a cop saved the day.
Hunger is something that this country is facing. Instead of arresting her why not offer to buy the kid a banana? She may have already told the kid she had no extra money. Jackhole cop!
I don't think kids under ten are allowed to make bored panda accounts. I believe you have to be over 13.
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Then Everyone Ripped Off Their Masks And Bras
Note: this post originally had 98 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
It's honestly sad to see adults or even teenagers making up tall tales like that for attention. This behaviour is only normal for preschoolers and part of a child's development, but definitely not healthy and normal for anyone over the age of 10.
I agree! It's crazy to believe anyone would just straight-out lie like this, especially when they promote dangerous or untrue behavior and ideas. Like anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers.
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Some of these have been taken seriously and have been featured multiple times on Bored Panda before...
I feel like some of these could possibly be true, but most are just ridiculous
Mankind is also doomed if they don't have children.
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Some of these were actually kinda funny, even if they were fake. :/
The age old saying from the early days of the internet..."Pics or it didn't happen." Thank you that is all.
When the lines between humour and deceit are blurred in the eye of the beholder.
I just feel sorry for these kids. Their parenst must have done a s**t job raising them with so little self-esteem.
It's honestly sad to see adults or even teenagers making up tall tales like that for attention. This behaviour is only normal for preschoolers and part of a child's development, but definitely not healthy and normal for anyone over the age of 10.
I agree! It's crazy to believe anyone would just straight-out lie like this, especially when they promote dangerous or untrue behavior and ideas. Like anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers.
Load More Replies... Some of these have been taken seriously and have been featured multiple times on Bored Panda before...
I feel like some of these could possibly be true, but most are just ridiculous
Mankind is also doomed if they don't have children.
Load More Replies... Some of these were actually kinda funny, even if they were fake. :/
The age old saying from the early days of the internet..."Pics or it didn't happen." Thank you that is all.
When the lines between humour and deceit are blurred in the eye of the beholder.
I just feel sorry for these kids. Their parenst must have done a s**t job raising them with so little self-esteem.
