# Faking your own death to get back at your girlfriend **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212 "2003-09-02T21:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/1 "2003-09-02T21:32:38Z")
There are two people I know. Let’s call them, oh, Dick and Shirley. They were going out until about a month ago. Shirley broke up with Dick. Nothing particularly malicious… she just wasn’t interested anymore, and they had been drifting apart for a while. But I digress. After the break-up, Dick apparently disappeared. Took his personal effects, his car, and vanished from the Valley. They (“they” being his closest friends and family) said that they found an engagement ring on his desk. Alarm bells are sounding. People were worried. After a few days, They said that the cops found his car, cell phone, wallet, and ID, abandoned in San Diego. Things are REALLY fucked up now. Talk is going around about the possibility that the poor kid killed himself. He was a good buddy of mine. Shirley was torn up, depressed as all hell. Fast forward. Apparently, a couple nights ago, Shirley got a call in the middle of the night from Dick’s mother. She said that they found Dick’s body. She later said that they had him cremated, and arranged a wake. Shirley went, torn up, depressed, sad, upset, tearful. After the wake, she was leaving, but turned around to the sound of _every other fucking person there laughing and applauding_. Turns out that Dick had gotten his family and friends in on a plan to fake his own death for the sole fucking purpose of getting back at Shirley. So now SPOOFE is pissed. Dick had better hope he not come within an arm’s - or fist’s - reach of SPOOFE. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/2 "2003-09-02T21:34:13Z")
Holy shit. Somebody really liked _The Game_, didn’t they? Are you serious?!?!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/3 "2003-09-02T21:35:42Z")
I like it. Well done. Wouldn’t do it and wouldn’t want it done to me, but the mere fact that he COULD pull it off amazes me. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/4 "2003-09-02T21:36:15Z")
IMHO Dick is rightly named. What a prick ! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/5 "2003-09-02T21:36:15Z")
You ARE kidding, aren’t you? What sort of a lowlife does this sort of thing, let alone _getting his family and friends_ to help him out in the performance? Please tell me you’re joking. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/6 "2003-09-02T21:36:26Z")
you and me both. and I don’t even know them. that’s pretty fucking low. ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/7 "2003-09-02T21:37:06Z")
Someone in a web community that I used to belong to faked her own death once, and everyone got in a total tizzy about it. I suspected it was fake from the moment I heard about it (the woman who did it was just the sort of person you’d expect it from if she thought she could get away with it…total dramaqueen). It sucked for everyone involved, even though it was “only” online. I can’t even imagine the malice and assholishness required to set it up IRL. The nastiness is beyond comprehension. I know that the kneejerk reaction in the US is to sue, sue, sue…but seriously. If there were ever a worthwhile frivolous lawsuit (I know, I know…oxymoron), this is it. Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/8 "2003-09-02T21:41:18Z")
I could see doing something like this after several years of dating _and_ a very nasty break up that was all her fault. Maybe. Still, that’s a rather impressive feat. You have to give the guy and his family their props. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/9 "2003-09-02T21:41:48Z")
P.S.- I’m sorry it happened to your friend Shirley. Must be awful for her. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/10 "2003-09-02T21:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*I could see doing something like this after several years of dating _and_ a very nasty break up that was all her fault. Maybe. > \*\* Could you? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/11 "2003-09-02T22:26:10Z")
His **MOTHER** made the call??? Oh my god. Friends, I can almost understand. A brother, perhaps. But for a _mother_ to call and say her son’s body had been found, cremated, etc… that’s too fucked up. Especially since (and I’m giving **spoofe** the benefit of the doubt here…) the breakup wasn’t malicious. Ugh. Just… just… UGH. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/12 "2003-09-02T22:39:22Z")
I hope the guy taped it. He could make a mint selling it to _America’s Most Fucked Up Home Movies_. Really, though, I’d love to compare and contrast Shirley’s version of the break-up with Dick’s. Dick must have one hell of a story if he was able to convince his entire family to go along with the “gag”. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/13 "2003-09-02T22:44:13Z")
At least we know it’s a good thing she dumped him. How fucked up do you have to be to pull something like that? And how fucked up does your family have to be to go along with it? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/14 "2003-09-02T23:14:02Z")
**closes eyes, makes a wish, re-reads OP** Damn, I was hoping to find out that I had missed the words “Urban Legend” somewhere in the OP. **SPOOFE** , that is truly sick…especially the part where everyone _laughed_ at her! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/15 "2003-09-02T23:22:59Z")
The guy’s last name wouldn’t happen to be Head, would it? Because that would make sense. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/16 "2003-09-02T23:23:39Z")
Call the cops. I doubt they would appreciate their role in this little psychodrama. Did they search for him? What a waste of time and money. What a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/17 "2003-09-02T23:23:39Z")
Damn, I can’t believe an entire family would be so fucked up as to pull this kind of bullshit, especially over something as… commonplace, as lame, as trite as a breakup because a couple drifted apart. Hell, even if he lied his ass off to his family, I can’t see many excuses that would convince all of them to go along with this stunt. What the fuck. Shirley should - once she deals with being the targeted of such a sick joke - thank her lucky stars that she did dump the guy and didn’t marry into such a twisted family. A friend of mine’s wife killed herself a couple weeks ago, and I know it has just torn him to bits. I can’t imagine the misery they put her through for a sick joke, making her think that their breakup had contributed to his suicide. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/18 "2003-09-02T23:27:07Z")
Amazing. Just amazing. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by Lord Ashtar > > I could see doing something like this after several years of dating and a very nasty break up that was all her fault. Maybe. kambuckta, to give Lord Ashtar the benefit of the doubt, I think I know what he was trying to say. I _think_ that he was saying that it would _almost_ kind of, sort of make sense to do something that twisted and evil if the relationship had been a long one and the break-up had been particularly traumatic. (But it would _definitely_ be twisted and evil.) We are more accustomed to hearing bizarre stunts like this being pulled by people after a long-term relationship has falled apart in an ugly way. But this was just after a _month_ of dating. No particular emotional break-up either. And the Dickhead got his _mom_ involved. That’s just _so_ bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/19 "2003-09-02T23:33:16Z")
I can’t believe the guy actually got his _family and friends_ in on the scam. On the plus side, now Shirley knows it’s a _good_ thing she’s no longer associated with the psycho and his psycho family. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212/20 "2003-09-02T23:35:33Z")
> [@](#): > > But this was just after a month of dating. No particular emotional break-up either. And the Dickhead got his mom involved. I can’t find this in the OP anywhere… Yes, it would make loads of sense if they had gone out for years and years and someone fucked someone else over in a bad way and the other person couldn’t let go. If it WAS only a month of dating, then there’s something wrong there. It’s still amazing that someone could pull his friends and family together to pull something like this off. THAT is what amazes me, not the act itself. I don’t condone it, it’s not nice, borders on emotional torture, and well, Dick’s a dick. Sam [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faking-your-own-death-to-get-back-at-your-girlfriend/199212.md?page=2)