| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud 19:08 - Jun 25 with 976 views | WeWereZombies |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dngyk69d0o
Thought that might get your attention but it's not the one who has featured on here before. Actually a far less boorish story but now a convicted felon all the same:
'The 55-year-old, who was known to his many customers as Tam O'Braan, spun an elaborate backstory claiming among other things that he was a former bomb disposal expert, had lived in the Amazon and had invented the "bag for life"..Trading as The Wee Tea Plantation, Robinson claimed his brews had been grown on farmland in Perthshire and Dumfries and Galloway, but really the tea had been bought from a wholesaler in Oxford and resold at hugely-inflated prices...He boasted that tea he had supplied to London's Dorchester Hotel in 2017 was "the Queen's favourite"...One magazine feature introduced Robinson as having previously lived "on a canoe in the Amazon, bitten by a deadly snake in Brazil and shot at on the Thailand-Burma border" before he turned to tea...He claimed to have developed a "special biodegradable polymer" that would make the tea plants grow in half the usual time. The court was told it looked just like a black bin liner.'
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 19:19 - Jun 25 with 869 views | Swansea_Blue |
I was going to say how can anyone be so gullible to think tea is grown in Scotland, but a quick search suggests it apparently it is. Another TWTD learning day. |  |
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 19:21 - Jun 25 with 849 views | WD19 |
Hopefully he will turn over a new leaf once released. |  | | |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 19:37 - Jun 25 with 782 views | Bluespeed225 |
I actually think he's done alright. No drug related gang crime, no adicts suffering, no knives involved ( beaten with a tea strainer?), so he does a year, comes out to a book/film deal! Just a good old fashioned scam with our favourite national beverage at the core. He's got a bright future ahead! |  | | |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:09 - Jun 25 with 680 views | glasso |
Getting bitten by a snake and turning to tea is terrifying. Imagine getting bitten one minute and then realising you're tea the next. | | | |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:16 - Jun 25 with 651 views | WeWereZombies |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 19:21 - Jun 25 by WD19 |
Hopefully he will turn over a new leaf once released. |
I'm sure he's got something brewing... | |
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:20 - Jun 25 with 636 views | J2BLUE |
Imagine inventing a whole new backstory and going with 'I invented the bag for life'. |  |
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:24 - Jun 25 with 617 views | Guthrum |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:09 - Jun 25 by glasso |
Getting bitten by a snake and turning to tea is terrifying. Imagine getting bitten one minute and then realising you're tea the next. |
Usually if you get bitten, you're toast. |  |
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 22:42 - Jun 25 with 387 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 19:19 - Jun 25 by Swansea_Blue |
I was going to say how can anyone be so gullible to think tea is grown in Scotland, but a quick search suggests it apparently it is. Another TWTD learning day. |
You are gullible enough to believe the results of that quick search?
EDIT: They have gone to even greater lengths to convince you than the Ipswich Underground haven't they? https://teagardensofscotland.co.uk/ [Post edited 25 Jun 22:44]
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 22:47 - Jun 25 with 374 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 20:09 - Jun 25 by glasso |
Getting bitten by a snake and turning to tea is terrifying. Imagine getting bitten one minute and then realising you're tea the next. |
I guess it's better than being toast.
EDIT: I see Guthers beat me to that one hours ago! [Post edited 25 Jun 22:48]
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| Thomas Robinson jailed for fraud on 11:18 - Jun 26 with 87 views | ronnyd |
Good to see that they've finally bagged him. | | | |
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