'His face... was priceless': 15+ Times liars got instantly humiliated

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 22, 2024 3:00 PM EST

These people couldn't believe how perfectly things worked out when they caught liars in the middle of their lies. I mean, that just doesn't happen much in real life. Usually, if you're being lied to, you either find out much later, or not at all. 

Some folks are notorious liars who can't seem to help themselves. You've probably met this kind of person in your life at some point. Some of them fixate on their health---they'll constantly tell you about their very serious ailments. But the rumor mill might clue you into their ongoing lies. Still, it seems like when people lie constantly, everyone around them just shrugs their shoulders and says, "They're just like that." 

These people had the most satisfying times catching liars on the spot. One of the craziest stories is the person who had a job candidate apply for a job using the interviewer's own artwork! This person writes that they let the dude try to explain what the art meant for a while. Then, they pulled out their ace in the hole: they had the original artworks, obviously, leaving the liar humiliated and still out of a job. That's a lesson that job seeker won't soon forget. 

Next up, this college student's parking request was denied by the school, so they decided to ride their horse to the university instead. 

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    'I once had a graphic designer apply for a post using my art... I showed him the originals, and the door.' +1. LIGHT 94 t#
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    What is the most satisfying time you've caught someone in a lie?
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    Razor-dome I work for a broadcast camera house - we rent out camera systems to shows, news, sports etc. A few years back, a client rented a few cameras and some specialty lenses - including one very rare, very expensive fisheye. Nice lens - it's not made anymore, so replacing it isn't possible, and fixing it will be extremely
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    expensive. That was foreshadowing, way. by the So, the package comes back at the end of the job, and the lens has a divot the size of a quarter taken out of the front element. I mean, this thing was trashed. I call the producer to have the "You broke it, we're billing you to fix it" conversation. Within seconds, the
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    conversation breaks down to the "This is I we never even used it, it never came off the camera truck, I can't believe we're being treated this way etc. etc. etc." screamfest. Meanwhile, it turns out that the client had also rented a few tape decks. One of the still had a tape in it. On a whim, we watched the tape, and damned if it
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    wasn't footage from the camera with the lens in question VERY CLEARLY showing the truck driving into it. Big hit, too. Truck had to be going 25+ MPH. I grabbed the tape and went to the producers office. Let him scream a bit (in front of about 10 other people - he's the type that likes an audience) before showing them the
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    tape. I made sure to shuttle back and forth a bit, slow it down, replay it a few times - also showed them the part where his name was visible on the slate. The look on his face was priceless. Ended up being a $20,000 repair bill. Never heard from him again. It was worth it.
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    TL, DR- damaged expensive camera and lens, denied it, and was dumb enough to send back photographic evidence.
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    Lord_Osis_B_Havior Me (on phone): So Mr. Jones, it's OK for my kid to spend the night at your kid's house? "Mr. Jones" (in Simpsons squeaky teen voice): Yes, that's right. Me: OK, great. Would you mind telling me your address? "Mr. Jones": I ... don't ... know. <HANGS UP>
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    sacheltry When I was in college I had just gotten two new front tires for my car. A week later my back tire was punctured by a nail. So I went to the local tire shop to have it replaced. Later that day they gave me a call:
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    Tire Shop: "The estimate to fix the puncture is X. Would you like us to repair it?" Me: "Yes, please." It was a reasonable price. Tire Shop: "Also, I noticed that the treads on your front tires look dangerously low." Me: "My two front tires?"
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    Tire Shop: "Yes. They are at two-thirty- seconds of an inch low. This is legally worn down and they should be replaced. I can do it today for X dollars." Me: "So you are telling me that my two front tires are dangerously worn down?" Tire Shop: "Yes." Me: "My brand new tires that I bought last week?"
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    Tire Shop: "Oh..." Me: "Forget fixing the puncture. I'll be by in a minute to pick up my car."
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    wintertash Lube tech at a Jiffy Lube tried to convince me that I needed a radiator service on a car that didn't have a radiator. He even showed me a PH strip to "prove" that the fluid had gone acidic.
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    I told him if he could show me the radiator, I'd cheerfully pay for the service. His face when he opened my car's trunk (where most cars keep their hoods) was pretty priceless.
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    Nifferplz My boyfriend used to work third shift at a popular gas station on the East Coast. He worked with one of those notoriously terrible coworkers that calls in all the time with tons of excuses. Well, one night, she called out saying that she was sick, that she was vomiting and feverish, couldn't come in, sorry.
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    The only person available to work her shift was the district manager, who happened to be in the area for a meeting. DM comes in and works cashier with my boyfriend.
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    Around 3AM, who should walk in but the called-out coworker, wasted beyond belief. She bought two rolls of Tums and ate one while waiting in line. Waiting in line for the DM to ring her up...and fire her on the spot. TL;DR Coworker fakes being sick, only to return to place of employment wasted and find her boss' boss waiting on her.
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    BlatantBlunt I once had a graphic designer apply for a post using my artwork in his portfolio. Asked him all about the work and the thinking behind the designs before I showed him the originals and the door.
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    jhp58 I went to a Chicago Bears game back in the early 90s with my childhood best friend and his grandfather who had had season tickets to the Bears for a long long time, back to like 1972. We get to the seats, which are in an awesome location, to see four guys sitting in Grandpa's seats. My friend's Grandpa tells them, "Guys, you are in
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    our seats, can you please move?" One of the dudes is a huge and says the seats are his groups. Grandpa says they are wrong and they need to move. To which one guy replies, "Oh yeah, well I don't see your name on them so off!"
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    Grandpa points to the seatback on the seat nearest to him, which in fact has an engraved nameplate with Grandpa's name on it, same with all the other seats. Since he had the same seats for so long he was able to get them engraved. It was amazing watching these four idiots stammer and walk away.
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    4-8 keystothemoon Ooh boy do I have a doozy! So I had a job with this complete who for the sake of this story we will refer to as Peter. Peter had not paid me in a few weeks and I was starting to become more forceful when asking him about it. One day he handed me a letter from
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    someone we'll call Harry who purported to be the CEO of the company. Harry was firing me. Now I had never met Harry and in fact when I was hired, Peter told me that he himself was the CEO. Well I was fired but I still wanted my back pay as it was nearly $2400. I wrote Peter many emails and he replied by saying that this Harry was not
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    approving my pay. I don't know why Harry had to approve anything as I was a legitimate employee with a contract, timesheets, the whole kit and caboodle. When I asked Peter, he was vague about it. Finally I called the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. I set up an arbitration hearing. When Peter arrived, the first thing
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    he said was "My name is Peter and I pay my employees." Throughout the hearing I showed my timesheets, the contract I signed with Peter, the letter signed by Harry that said I was fired, and the host of emails in which Peter states that Harry is the one who is holding up my backpay. Then came the coup de grace. I busted out a
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    final document: Harry's death certificate filed with the Social Security Administration! Harry had indeed once been the CEO of the company, unfortunately he died two years before I ever started working there making it quite difficult for him to be the one who was keeping my money from me.
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    Peter was furious. He started shouting and referring to me as "This little ". He was caught in an obvious fraud and he was 1. Not only did I get my back pay, but the arbitrator also awarded me additional money that Peter had to pay in fines and penalties. It was so sweet.
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    I strutted hearing with the swagger of ten- thousand Humphrey Bogarts. It was a beautiful day so I went to a local bar where I could sit outside, watch the girls walk by, drink beer, and eat a lobster- burger (which is exactly what it sounds like and is awesome). out of that
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    In two weeks, a check came signed by Peter. I cashed it and used the money as the security deposit on a sweet new apartment.
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    ΙΟΙΟΙΟΙ I was "webmaster" at a company during dot com. My job was to handle all things Internet. One day a salesman asked me to check our mail server. A client had sent a message that bounced. Checked it out, mail server was fine. A little while later, a customer called and said they couldn't get
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    to our web site. I checked it out. Web server fine, serving up pages to other users. As the day progressed, the complaints got more frequent, but from where I was sitting, everything looked fine; DNS, everything. Then I checked the domain record. It was expired that very day. This meant that our presence on the
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    internet was slowly disappearing as DNS caches around the world expired. Nobody could use our products. Units in the field that relied on a connection were malfunctioning. So I started emailing the accounting woman. She blamed me, claiming she never got the bill. There was a 1 of internal email activity involving
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    all levels of the company. She stood her ground. Then my boss came to my desk and we went to see her. She lied straight to our faces that she never got the invoice. But right there, on the far side of her desk, it sat, plain as day. I just looked at my boss and pointed to it. KAAA THUDDD
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    Chromedragon 79. Had an old 1984 Mazda 626 that had a rear wheel bearing die. Being about 18 at the time I didn't know as much about cars as I do now, but I still knew enough to tell the mechanic at Canadian Tire was full of The car was pulled into the shop, they lifted it up on the hoist and the
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    wheel fell off. It was still bolted to the brake drum, the bearing had just come apart, but I didn't really know that. All we saw was the exposed internals of the rear brakes. The mechanic saw the look on our faces and thought "cha ching" as they received a portion of parts sales back then. A couple hours later he calls back and says he has a quote. I look through the list of
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    about 15 items and the total of $2,600 and immediately called a tow truck. I went through the list and pointed out five items that didn't even exist on the car. Rear brake caliper, rear differential, etc. I tore into the guy and eventually his manager and told them I wasn't paying a cent for the diagnosis.
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    I got the car home and, with the help of the Haynes manual, installed the $34 wheel bearings myself in about an hour and the car worked perfectly for about five more years.
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    Biggie_smallest So I drive a very nice luxury/performance sports car, and on this particular night, I had driven it to a friends and parked it in an area that is easily visible to the street and is near a good amount of bars. When I come back down, there's this guy and three girls around the car, and he's telling
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    them he lives in the condos next to the lot and he just forgot his keys to the car up there. He keeps talking about being "VP of investments" company I've never heard of, and telling the girls they should "have a night on the town" with him because he's paying". for some So I walk up to my car and he makes this disgusted face at me
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    like I've just taken a on his feet, and goes "Don't touch the car man, I just got it detailed yesterday!" to which I respond "Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't going to. It's really nice car. I just wanted to look at it."
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    He turns around to the girls and says something that he (and only he) thinks is funny and is motioning my way, when I put my hands in my pocket and hit the unlock button that also makes the car lights turn on (it was night time at this point). He jumped as if a went off, and the look on his face when I opened the door and started the car was priceless.
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    scottishzombie I worked in an IT department and had the option of taking some leave time as cash. This required submitting a form to my then manager, who had it in for me at the time. After several hours, I decided to take a stroll over to Accounting and talk to a fellow co-worker to see if she had received
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    the paperwork. She hadn't. I then asked if there would be any foreseeable problem with issuing me the cash. "Nope", she said. "Just need the paperwork." I went back to my desk and not five minutes later, my manager walked by the door on her way home for the day (at 1:30 no less) and told me that she had talked to Accounting and said
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    they couldn't issue me the check. "Who did you talk to?" I asked. " (Name)" she said. "That's funny," I replied, "because I just spoke to her 5 minutes ago and she said it wouldn't be a problem. Let's go talk to her." "No, no....I'll go talk to her," my manager replied. And wouldn't you know it, I got my check 15 minutes later!
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    (As an epilogue, I had the sincere pleasure of securing down my manager's PC and locking out her network account per the CIO's orders when she got terminated three months later. The last thing she saw as she was escorted onto the elevator and led out of the building was my smiling face.)
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    Affero-Dolor We used to know this girl who compulsively lied about the littlest things, so we always wondered if she was lying about other things. Mainly we wondered if she was lying about having epilepsy.
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    Well, she faked a fit in front of a group of us once, at a party. She started pretending to shake, fell to the floor and so on. She then stopped, confirmed that people were looking and paying attention, and then continued. We told her to stop and that she was obviously faking. She left.
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    [deleted] Not really a lie, but I was that kid who set all the curves in math class in high school. I'm Chinese, and there were other Chinese kids who sat behind me in class. I don't know why they didn't think I spoke Mandarin, but I did. They would talk me all the time in on Mandarin, like, "This stupid kid thinks he's
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    smart" blah SO blah blah. I never reacted. Literally the last week of class, I turned around and starting talking to them in fluent Mandarin. Priceless look on their faces.
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    [deleted] I wasn't the one doing the "catching," but I got to witness two people catching each other in a lie in the most fascinating way possible. A friend of mine told his girlfriend that he didn't want to hang out that night because he wasn't feeling good. She immediately started reassuring him
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    that it wasn't a big deal (they had reserved that night to spend time together), and that he should get some rest. Well, after sleeping it off, he felt okay to do something again, so he tried getting their plans back in order. At this point, she said she was just calling it a night and finishing some homework, so she didn't want to hang out anymore. His
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    response was that he would do the same. Well, my friend was full and he came of out to the bar with me instead. Lo and behold, this was the same bar that his girlfriend had decided to visit that night, as well. I Me and my friend moved to the dance floor, and we got separated a bit. He was about 15 feet to my right, when I thought I
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    caught a glimpse of his girlfriend across the room. Right as I noticed her, my first reaction was to look at him to see if he saw her. Well, as I looked from her, over to him, and back to her, they noticed each other. I got to watch as their eyes met and they're expressions went to looks of complete horror in one glorious moment.
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    It was priceless. Edit: I'm getting a lot of inquiries as to the follow-up events that took place. They were mad at each other for a very brief moment, then they both realized that they were equally at fault. It ended up blowing over without any real issues taking place.
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    terpsiterpsi When I was younger one of my my SNES games went missing and I was pretty sure it was a close friend of mine who'd taken it. I loved him dearly so didn't want to upset him and confront him about it so I came up with a cunning plan. I told my friend that I thought one of my games had gone
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    missing and that I'd notified the police. I also mentioned that I'd recently had my games chipped which the police could track so I was fairly confident that I'd have it back soon. He was round my house within two hours to "help me look for it". He didn't even subtly look for 5 minutes, he went straight under my front room sofa and
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    magically produced the game and said "look you silly idiot, it's here! You'd better let the police know!". I even pretended to ring the police to report it found. Still love the guy.
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    Ellimis I do IT for a construction firm. We were rolling out 78 iPhones in one day to a bunch of our superintendents and corporate people. Everybody had to sign up in advance for a 15 minute time slot, and I mean sign up like WEEKS beforehand. After the deadline two weeks before the rollout day, we cut off
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    the signups and ordered one phone per person that signed up. the phones were set up so that they'd already be attached to that person's name, number, etc. The signup sheet was just a document with write-only permissions. Nobody could remove or change anybody else's name, they could only add their own.
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    On the day of the rollout, we have one of our higher-ups that's a little pretentious walk into the room where we're doing the deployment. There are lines and lines of people. He strolls in, claps his hands together, and says "all right, who's got my iPhone?" "Well, we don't have one for you. You didn't sign up. We ordered
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    exactly enough, it's only 10am and we're already behind, and there are lines of people who signed up that are waiting to get theirs." "No, I definitely signed up! I have it right here in my calendar. This is the event that got auto-added to my calendar, look!" Literally every person in that room knew that
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    there was no automatically added calendar event, because the sign up only consisted of you writing your name on a page. "Sorry, the invitations didn't work like that. You made that event yourself."
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    He started fuming! Turned red, began several sentences, then gave up, turned on his heel, and walked straight back out that door.
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    Our non-corporate superintendents and all the other field people really appreciated us that day. Don't act like you're important if you can't even follow the simple instructions we send you, people. Come on.
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    extremelyincredibly. I used to be a substitute teacher. I had classroom teachers regularly calling me to return, so I had gotten to know this particular class and, more specifically, this particular student. On this day, there was a milk and cookies thing for kids and their reading mentors, sort of as a thank you. I had
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    just for the mentors." (He had already attempted to blatantly ask "Miss, can I go get a cookie?") || About fifteen minutes later (a bit much for a second grader to be in a bathroom by himself) he returned. I looked at him and asked where he had been.
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    "Bafroom." (No eye contact). I saw crumbs on his shirt, and went with my gut. "Really? You didn't go to the library?" "Nope. Just the bafroom." "Mmm. What kind of cookie was it?" "Chocolate chi- dang."
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    a list of kids who had mentors and were excused to go greet the volunteers and enjoy the cookies. Let it be known that J was not on this list. At one point in the class, J has my permission to go to the bathroom (nowhere near the library). "Ok, J, you can go, but don't you dare go to the library - you know it's
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