Tuesday 23 June 2009

108 Humans/Skills/Conmen

Good conmen never get caught. Charles Ponzi, Kilroy-Silk, Princess Di: all off to a good start, but eventually found out.
The best conman is currently 24-year-old Frank Kosher. At his birth he had the ‘Extra Milk Scam’ working, persuading the midwives in attendance to lactate, including the male nurses. By 2 he was grifting his old worn dummies, exchanging them for baby strollers and cabbage patch dolls in what has since become known as the ‘Great Mothercare Swindle’. At the age of 9 he had graduated to the long con and his version of the ‘Fiddle’ involving donkeys and circus dwarfs was raking in £20,000 a week.
When puberty struck Frank was ready to take confidence trickery to a new level and invented the Tate Stone Fence. Inspired by the audacity of the Brit Art movement of the mid 90’s, he erected a barrier outside Tate Britain made entirely from marijuana resin, coated the structure with a granite composite, erected a sign announcing ‘Stoned Fence’ and stood by dressed as a dishevelled Rastafarian policeman, complete with dreadlocks and truncheon. The critics saw a work of genius, the criminals an opportunity. Attracted to the installation by the chance to off load their stolen items at a good drug induced price they were immediately confronted by the metaphysics and warping implications of the piece. Confused they handed the items over in exchange for an ‘Evening All’. The best cons are legal cons, such as the Insurance Industry or the Royal Family, so Frank would return the items to their owners and claim the reward. He scaled the business by opening branches outside every major art gallery including the Le Louvre, Guggenheim and the Setagaya.
On his 18th Birthday Frankie retired and donated his entire fortune to charity by setting up the Kosher Foundation. KF did a lot of good work in its first year but attracted the usual hoard of embezzlers so Frank came out of retirement and taught them all a lesson by fleecing his own philanthropic enterprise, quadrupling his money in the process.
Frank Kosher is the 3rd richest man in the world and good mates with Benedict Farse (See 30 Animals/Humans/Bill Gates, 93 Finance/Money/Hierarchy of Charities, 98 Employment/Jobs/Lawyers and 104 Humans/Power/The Power Behind The Throne). Bill Gates is unaware of this relationship and the 2 friends often giggle at the futility of Billie’s situation.

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