"If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you"

[The_Plutonium_Kid]

@Czarcasm

If you believe your friend, I’ve got this bridge…
Check out this Milwaukee Journal article from 1985.

Thanks. I’m going to print that out and shove it in his face at the earliest opportunity! Victory is mine!

[running_coach]

@Measure_for_Measure

Central Park is a nice piece of property, you know.

I am interested in purchase of your item. Courier will attach at your place for transport arranged by you.

[Killing_Time]

@running_coach

I am interested in purchase of your item. Courier will attach at your place for transport arranged by you.

Nigerian 419 scam?

[robert_columbia]

@Killing_Time

Nigerian 419 scam?

But before i need a copy of your passport, driver license, and major credit card to perform the background check for your honesty. Please also send USD 200 to company below for background check fee & process.

[dougie_monty]

I have a joke book that was originally published in the late 1930s. It mentions a country bumpkin who went to New York and decided to try to sell the Brooklyn Bridge himself! "Durned if he didn’t run into the man who owned it. He made Homer pay him $500 to keep quiet. "

[The_Plutonium_Kid]

NM, duplicate post.

[The_Plutonium_Kid]

@Measure_for_Measure

Central Park is a nice piece of property, you know.

Will you take small, unmarked, non-consecutive bills? It’s all I’ve got at the moment.

[dougie_monty]

@The_Plutonium_Kid

Will you take small, unmarked, non-consecutive bills? It’s all I’ve got at the moment.

You better not say another word until your lawyer gets here!

[Peter_Morris]

@The_Plutonium_Kid

Con men in New York in the early 20th century would “sell” the bridge (as well as other landmarks like Grant’s Tomb) to naive, newly arrived immigrants.

@Johnny_L.A

George C. Parker (1870–1936) ‘sold’ the Brooklyn Bridge several times.

@Measure_for_Measure

Incidentally, it hasn’t been confirmed that this particular swindle really took place, though it may have. Cite. Discussion.

But it is confirmed that Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower.

Victor Lustig

He didn’t sell monuments to newly arrived immigrants. He posed as a civil servant, and sold the contract for repair/building/ demolition to the appropriate businesses.