Man caught live on radio cheating on his wife

A colleague sent me this just now. If you understand German well, it is really worth a listen.

The set-up: a radio station is holding a contest where you can win €10,000 if the serial number on your €10 bill matches the number they call out on the radio. A woman calls up to say she's won, but that her husband, who's away on business, has the bill. So they call him.

Mega shit is right. Hope she gets the 10k!

oh mate! thats embarassing!

at least in the US... a lot of these types of things on the Radio are fake, they use actors.

OMG...what a dick

firelane - You know, that's what I thought too - that it was too slick, too real. I mean the way the radio people are jumping in there all serious, taking over the conversation there, before the women start getting weepy...

edit: but listening again, it does sound so spontaneous, the way the one woman keeps asking, who is Anette? and how you can hear the fear in the man's voice right from the first hello

Hah... talk about a double whammy!

That's a classic. No husband goes for a "business meeting" on the weekends and no woman should believe him if he says that.

The guy was not cheating on his girlfriend, he was cheating on his wife.

Yup he got caught wi his pants down there

too funny!

Excuse me but this is obviously a fake.

So obviously a fake. Embarrassing.

Once again - so brilliant, and wrong.

Almost all major medical and other professional congresses include a weekend, well attended.

Well, you should never trust blindly a doctor for that matters. Not even during week days (not sure which smiley goes here...)

Who keeps a spreadsheet of the serial numbers of their banknotes? I realise this is Germany, but this is still too difficult to believe.

Bull. There are a lot of professional congresses that fall during a weekday.

Once again-so pathetic.

Was in Vienna a little while back for a visit. Hotel rooms were hard to come by because there was a big cardiac conference falling on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

Just saying like.

Yes, there are a lot of minor ones fall on weekday but most major pro/med-congresses include at least one weekend. You stated that there are no "business meeting" on weekends and this is clearly wrong. And never mind the fact that working with some eastern cultures - we work Sundays.

Edit: Keydeck - That was the ESC 2007 - European Society of Cardiology - had a team filming there and about 30 other people - but in LIAB's book they were all fooling around, maybe I should have gone...

The odds of this happening would be roughly a trillion to one:
1)There are more numbers on the bill than in the Lottery
2)How the F...does she remember the numbers if its in her hubby's wallet?
3)She never gave the station his telephone number
4)Why would anybody answer the damn phone to begin with?
5)Its a freakin' EURO! The damn bill could be in Spain or France for all anybody knows.
6)The chance of all this happening at the same time...come on people!

I say door number 4.

That may all be true, but it's very, very hard to fake emotions using only the voice. They certainly aren't 'acting' in a conventional sense. If you listen to radio plays or series you won't hear anything as raw as that.

I refer you to Orson Welles 'The War of the Worlds'

Sounds fake as fuck to me. Responses are too quick in coming. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is bogus.

I think 'Fake as Fuck' sums it up rather nicely, Keydeck!

Just to clarify, do wives go to business meetings at weekends, or is this equal opportunities disbelief?

Thing is, I've had weekend business meetings before now. It's ok though, I'm not married. But I'm just wondering whether this is one of those habits I need to kick before walking down the aisle? Thanks for your guidance.

Probably not, but the habits of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness should be kicked to the curb before you take that walk down the aisle. Just kidding, I think?

Yeah, I've seen this one around before, and it was generally agreed on that it is fake.

Two stupid things have to come together for it to be real. The woman has to be stupid enough to leave those bills lying around - they're like lottery tickets if she's serious about the game - and the boyfriend has to be so boneheaded as to let his other girlfriend answer the phone.

@Burnside - #2 - she's written the numbers down on a list, but the husband has taken the bills with him by mistake.
#3 - they've edited it all down to make it flow better

It's well-acted if it is fake though.

I think so too - nobody ever answers their 'boyfriends' phone and if so she would have just hung up!


Weekdays around weekend. I work for a large medical company and all the congresses we go to are over a weekend. That is a fact plain and simple. Look at them - Medica, Criticare, ASN, EDTA, EDTNA all run over weekends. So the theory that a man (or a woman) could never possibly be away on business on a weekend is indeed a pile of rubbish.

Yes, but these competitions are real. The radio station gets a load of 10 euro bills and distributes them locally, meaning that the chances are much better than if they just picked numbers at random. Bayern 3 had this competion recently.


If you listen, she says that she has collected a load of 10 euro bills and made a table of all the serial numbers


I would imagine they cut away at the point where she is giving the entire listener base


That however is a good question, but maybe the other girlfriend didn't know he was married.


Could be, but for the reason I stated on the first point, it's unlikely.


Small, but still possible.

At one point you can hear the girlfriend asking who Tanya is so we can possibly assume that she doesn't know about her either.

Not that I don't agree that it's fake particularly as he just happened to spend the winning €10,00 the night before?

So now I have to doubt the very similar call I heard on a Boston radio station. "Alison" win a bouquet of roses and says to call her bf, "Chris," and tell him he's won, b/c he's ostensibly a mama's boy and Alison wants to test whether he'd have them sent to her or to his mother. Of course, "Chris" says to send the roses to "Barbie," and "Alison" can't keep quiet and they start arguing, then "Barbie" rings through and calls "Alison" a s!ut. Now it seems obviously faked, but at the time I thought it was hilarious.

This one really breaks down with the gf answering the guy's telephone.

Have you listened to the WotW recording? It's presented as a news report. There's lots of shouting but nothing like the dynamic emotional interactions which you can hear happening on this broadcast. Very few actors and directors are capable of doing anything like this - the one example I can think of is Mike Leigh and the cast of Secrets and Lies.

There's some trashy daytime show here in Germany that's like a tamed-down version of Jerry Springer except that the storylines are made up and actors are used (sure, some people say this about Jerry Springer, but here they make it known). It took me a fair few minutes to work out it wasn't for real. I think an actor can make it seem real for a short length of time but not 45 minutes as on this show.

The note involved has sold it's story to Der Spiegel, so you can read all about it on Monday.