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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We once used a site called ISPQ, and we were messaged and chatted many times with, a guy called The New York Fireman ..... told us all kind of things about different fires that he's been involved in, how he'd been involved in an Anglo / American swap, where he'd worked in the uk and his uk counterparts had gone over to the USA to work in the New York Fire Dept. Oh boy, this guy was good, even mentioned the different types of equiopment that the UK firefighters used and on his profile pics, was a pic of him (or someone) dressed as a US firefighter.
One problem - ...... if a member sent a PM, the local time of their country was stamped on the message, and strangely enough, the stamp on his message was UK time, even though he was in New York ! We played him along at his game for a good few weeks until eventually we confronted him and to be fair, he admitted that he was lying, but thought that if he claimed to be a firefighter it would have given him a better chance at meeting up with someone .... but why choose New York ffs ?
Just out of interest, most of my work involves plumbing - toilets, kitchen sinks and suchlike, central heating systems - and electrics, if you like I'll rewire your house Hardly a fireman or a soldier, but if anyone wants to throw me some crumbs |