[wazz]

I was about to write that I'd never been burned but I forgot a pivotal moment in my earlier years.

I got the grand total of £75 in cash for christmas of I believe 1998. I was 14 then, and thought that it would be a hella good idea to spend it all on dope, so I called up my dealer who happened to be the son of some of my parents' friends. I met up with him, and being the naive little d*ck that I was, trusted him when he said 'give me the money, I've gotta meet the guy, he doesn't like meeting the punters face-to-face'. ok. ten minutes later, he called me from a payphone to say 'some [censored] just robbed me, he knicked my phone, your cash and my keys, i'm screwed, do you wanna come with me to find the guy' and i'm all like 'f*ck that, i'm a pussy'.

While walking home I'm trying to figure out the best course of action. I went to a payphone and dialed his number, he answered, i said 'I thought your phone got nicked' and he said 'er, yeah it did, i got it back' and then hung up.

Options: 1) tell my parents what happened, try to get the money back off him through the parents assuming he's lying (my read is that he's lying > 98%).
2) get my crew together, bounce down his yard, and administer some beatings. at the time, my crew consisted of me and most of the maths class, so this didn't seem too viable.
3) the masterplan. the next day i told my parents that i got mugged at knifepoint for that £75, and we went to the police station, I looked at some mug shots but couldn't find him, and span a nice little yarn about the guy putting a knife to my neck and having a look in his eyes that suggested he was high on crack. Obv while putting on my poshest public-school innocent young kid voice. A few days later while discussing the event with my parents I admitted to them that I did in fact know who it was. Now this kid had a serious rep, expelled from 3 or 4 schools (one of them for burning it down), but apparently his parents didn't really give a f*ck and le ft him a long leash. So my parents contacted the police and told them, then contacted his parents and told them, then his parents asked him, and apparently the bastard only went and told them exactly what happened i.e. he admitted to scamming me for £75. The plan would have worked perfectly, I would have got my money back and he would have been in deep sh*t with the police, except his parents were such idiots that they decided to protect him and basically told my parents to gftm. End result, I'm out £75 and grounded for 4 months, he gets absolutely no repercussions at all. BEAT.