Sid is 80, & his mind is so sharp. He remembers which bank he defrauded with the budgie's name, which one he scammed with the kitty's name, & which one he outsmarted with the spaniel's name. He uses people's stereotypes of old people to outsmart people as well--I laughed out loud when he told the story about being told by social services that he couldn't move out of his apartment, so he said no problem because I love looking out my 8 storey window & thinking how nice it would be to go for a fly out there over the town.. & IMMEDIATELY social services moved the 'senile old man' to another apartment. Very smooth! Sid had a good chuckle over that one, too.

@daltonmarcellus8702

2 жыл бұрын

instablaster...

Good job guys. In the UK people in power, like mayors can travel the country, step into any restaurant, and sent the bills to the hard working taxpayers. We, ordinary folks get robbed in public view, and it s legal ! The politicians also have second homes, paid for by the taxpayer.

@ausendundeinenacht1

4 жыл бұрын

Good job guys. In the UK people in power, like mayors can travel the country, step into any restaurant, and sent the bills to the hard working taxpayers. We, ordinary folks get robbed in public view, and it s legal ! The politicians also have second homes, paid for by the taxpayer.EXACTLY RIGHT

This documentary cheered me right up. Ive always said to my bestie soon as we're sixty we are going on a crime spree , whats the worse that can happen? Couple of months at HM Pleasure , be a bit of a holiday from what I hear ! Im 50 now so not long to go ! I think Sid was my fav I hope he's still at it. Keeping sharp ! Well done Bus pass bandits I salute you all ! Especially since the gov spent your pensions 🤭👏🤭👏👍

This just shows that people want excitement throughout their lives!

@ibitofdublin8892

4 жыл бұрын

so true can't wait

Authorities certainly have the time and resources to go after the little people and the likes of Apple Amazon etc get away with worse

@patagualianmostly7437

6 жыл бұрын

Mmm a lot of truth in that. I suspect it's because they want to deter as strongly as possible, the possibility that society, en masse, will take up this duty avoidance....that just scares the pants off them. Did you know that the Customs people have more powers than the Police, for instance? Which simply shows in my view that money, not peoples lives, matter most to the Government of the day. Always been that way.

@philiplopiano3759

4 жыл бұрын

Apple and Amazon line authorities and government officials pockets.theres nothing new going on in this world just playing for bigger stakes now

@nanabusterd

4 жыл бұрын

Boycott Amazon.

@bmelhorn4242

4 жыл бұрын

As you post this comment on your iPhone

Sid what a guy , what an outlook on life itself straight up and down old timer

I loved working with old folk. They are HILARIOUS !! The stuff they come out with is so dang funny !

@Jay-vr9ir

4 жыл бұрын

Someday we shall all be there , as I look down on my keyboard ,with a grey hair on it.

@johnsmith-rs2vk

Жыл бұрын

Yep , experience is an advantage .

BUNTY MCSKIMMING!! She sounds like a cartoon villain, I'm laughing.

@stephenwilliams1269

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly lived up to her name whilst looking like Granny Applecheeks even if she did smoke cigars lol the original Gangsta Granny

@derektrotter4287

4 жыл бұрын

Skimming the accounts 😂👍

I just love your DOCUMENTRIES , only thing I love more ,,,,,,,,,would be more of them LOL.

The woman's name is literally 'McSKIMMING' what do you expect?!

@eddenoy321

6 жыл бұрын

LOL not her real name I am sure

@HydiestFaith

6 жыл бұрын

lol I'm sure, but I couldn't resist. :D

@claywilson6149

6 жыл бұрын

McSkimming... I fkin love it . Priceless!!

@lukkyluciano

6 жыл бұрын

it's her real name

@lukkyluciano

6 жыл бұрын

www.bmdsonline.co.uk/dumfries-and-galloway-standard/obituary/mcskimming-bunty-janet/22985523

What a great entertaining doc. Funny old buggers, who would have thought? Couldn't help but have a laugh. Hope Sid had a great time here down under

Love it looks good on the greedy buggers! Terrible these people after working their whole life are left dangling! Good for them!

@ibitofdublin8892

4 жыл бұрын

LOOKING FORWARD TO MY OLD AGE

@soperdiact838

4 жыл бұрын

Working their whole lives? How many even said they had jobs? One at least boasted he'd never had a proper job.

Sid is my favorite! lol

For some reason, I got a kick out of this. I found myself smiling and cheering them on. Why should only the government be gangsters and cheats. And omigod Charlie...i love him lol

@eveadam4524

4 жыл бұрын

They are so adorable that how can you feel like it’s a crime!!

@nunyabeeswax256

4 жыл бұрын

They're all prob dead

@ibitofdublin8892

4 жыл бұрын

same here

That was an entertaining documentary you can't help but chuckle 👌

@henryweaver667

4 жыл бұрын

Sharon very sad to think stealing is ok. Death eternally is certain.

I like the guy who opened accounts in his animals names I love him

@karenevangelista3267

5 жыл бұрын

Well the saying goes “if you’ve got it flaunt it”, and he flaunted his walking stick. Very cool, and actually quite genius.

@mickholdin123

4 жыл бұрын

Dence spoon

@mickholdin123

4 жыл бұрын

@William Soper hows that then billy boy blue your shoes are about to leave without you

Charlie can suss out a journalist from a mile even atage 83 - well done him. "Your not interested: As long as YOU get what YOU want" he sums them up in so few words.

@msnadiak

5 жыл бұрын

Charlie is 93.

@harrypatterson985

4 жыл бұрын

@@msnadiak is Charlie still alive?

@ghosto.o1704

4 жыл бұрын

@@harrypatterson985 If he was I'd be impressed because this doc came out in 2001

I love Charlie. What stories he could tell.

"Lost revenue" = Consumers' savings.

@suthinscientist9801

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, for the government, it's all about tax tax tax, regulate regulate regulate!

@norman7527

2 жыл бұрын

Socialism for the rich and wealthy and cronies, free market for the rest of us!

The way this country treats all people old or young what do you expect povertys rife the imigrants have it made over here because it saves the country fortunes and yet its ok for politicions to rip us off we voted to leave the eu two years ago and were still in it shows you what the country thinks of the ordinary people the born and bred englishman and women

Sid is such a lovely old boy, lol.

Well done to the lot of them.

The main issue in all European countries is not addressed here. The fact that pensions are not subjected to cope with inflation, most of the time it is taxed and is not enough to cover housing, medical needs and day-to-day cost of living. Address this and our elderly will be happier and won't resort to this.

I now know what I want to be when I grow up. (Currently 50!) Lol! These folks are rock stars in my eyes!!!

Best youtube suggestion ive had, cheered me up no end lol! 😊

I said in my 30's that if I had to walk around in my 70's in a supermarket deciding if I should buy a can of beans or a cheaper variety like I saw many pensioners doing in the 1970's I would start stealing in some way or other. Luckily I've not reached that stage yet but I've no moral problem with the idea. There's a ''charity'' (tax dodge) and mandatory maintenance housing company trying to rip me off at the moment - I just keep batting the paperwork around.

Sid Chaney...the star of the show....comedy gold....what a great character he was.....'they said "Oh Mr Chaney.....we must move you"....I said.... "why"!!!!'......a real laugh out loud moment. What a pity that such a naturally funny guy is undoubtedly no longer with us given how old this documentary is. Did anyone notice his letterheaded notepaper.....replete with his portrait pic!!....'Mr Sidney Albert Chaney - Save The Pound!!!....effing brilliant!!!

how can anyone not like Charlie? :)

I love the scene where sid? is asleep at the table with a cup of coffee and a bottle of nitro spray! I guess if you're going to live with a bad heart you'd might as well use it to your advantage somehow lol

The government has been stealing from the pension fund for decades. So I take my hat off to the pensioners and salute them. The country is run by money greedy criminals - so it should not come as a surprise that the public follow suit. I personally won't steal from others because we are all in the same boat but I am certainly empathetic to pensioners who do what they have to do to survive.

Bunty Mcskimming! A big LOL on hearing that name!

Charlie is an icon, I love the man!!! I laughed so hard, he was complaining of having heart attacks, look at 40:25 how much salt he puts on those French fries, that would kill an elephant! LOL Besides, these old folks were robbing from those who rob all of us al our life, but that is legal, in some way I admire them.

@adelacoburn1396

6 жыл бұрын

When I saw that (the fries), I couldn't stop laughing. I thought..Geez Charlie have some salt with those fries. LOL!! Love Charlie..

@serinadelmar6012

4 жыл бұрын

Alejandro G estoy de acuerdo y mi encántale!

@Iamtheliquor

4 жыл бұрын

They're chips not French fries

@chary361

2 жыл бұрын

He is the sharpest tool in the shed.

What pensioners receive in the UK to live on is sickeningly low!! 😱😫

@beckyflower7297

4 жыл бұрын

its' from 2001

These pensioners are gangsters and scalawags.They gives me the giggles. They are too funny.

@briansmith5025

6 жыл бұрын

padma salam hy

Love your stories. Thank you again.

I found this program amusing but I feel saddened to think that the stars in this show will all now be long gone distant memories.

Absolutely brilliant!!!!

Sid. What a character!! Brilliant

Damn straight!! Stick it to the man gramps. I salute you !!

loved this one

John should never of been sent to prison.

The really surprising part of this documentary is that there's an organization called the Glasgow Tree Lovers Society.

@ibitofdublin8892

4 жыл бұрын

How many trees are in Glasgow that need saving? ??

@johnsmith-rs2vk

3 жыл бұрын

She used the wood to build a fence !

What a pleasure to behold, such a ragtag bunch of lovely criminals. Sid is a fckn legend in my eyes, 47:42 is absolutely hilarious

Don't ever assume the dear old man and lady are all sweetness and light. If you do, be it at your peril..

Absolutely superb, I'm still laughing my socks off not only at the pensioners but at the brilliantly droll interviewer. Bunty Macskimming for goodness sake, you couldn't make this up. Great stuff lol.

Bunty mc skimming perfect name for her lol 😂

@fife8332

6 жыл бұрын

True, she mcskimmed her way into a fortune.

@rowanbowyer6560

4 жыл бұрын

Chana Goldberg while I don’t agree with what she did , bigger fool the other members who let her get away with emptying their savings, especially after their annual meeting and the simplistic and unprofessional paper work presented to them. If they didn’t ask questions and demand explanations when they should’ve they almost asked for it

But if We are All in Europe and Common Market , why can we not buy cigs in France ?

@catatonicable

4 жыл бұрын

Or claim benefits....?

@terrynicholas1982

4 жыл бұрын

Coz our government are are the biggest crooks in Europe

Bang bang Charlie. What a figure he cuts! I had a friend who’s no longer with us now, who was very similar to Charlie. All that said, it seems the older generation of rogue commits crimes where no people are directly hurt. It’s proper old fashioned good quality crime. Let the old folk have a bit of fun. Why not!

I just love her voice & music & the way she interviews 👌👏👍

anyone who steals from a bank is a bloody hero

Poor old Sid. I have taken to him. I hope everything works out in his favor.

@henryweaver667

4 жыл бұрын

padma salam judgement awaits him.

What was that 'tree lovers lady's name?..Bunty McSkimming? ha!..good one!

Perhaps if the British government and states in the US like New York, would lower their ridiculous tobacco taxes, smuggling would end!

Brilliant documentaries, thanks for the upload

LOL. "for an intelligent bloody woman you ask some really stupid questions."

My Grand dad said never trust workplace pensions. Save in your own high interest savings account. I say, if you're destined to be on top rate benefits forever, start stashing in cash so the government doesn't see the true extent of your saving should you exceed the maximum savings allowance. Times are tough, pensions are small. Stash in a metal safe.

Brilliant! Money to the real need, money to the people.

Who the f*** thought it was a good idea to appoint Mrs McSkimming as treasurer? HAHA

Love the music at the end

More new stories would make my night .

Reminds me of this one old bloke here in the UK. He had a speeding offence that he'd been dodging. When finally taken to court, he requested a trial by combat stating that it wasa "perfectly reasonable way to settle it".

I was with my Gramma in the 80s at a Canadian garden plant conservatory she tried to pinch a small cutting putting it in her purse .she got busted ..thankfully it wasn't endangered or exotic they let her go with a warning. But it could have been a Federal crime . She never thought of it as a crime just a pinch.

I can only picture the police takedown. ...... :) these people need movie deals! Especially Charlie.

@tiernanwearen8096

3 жыл бұрын

Just put him in a nursing home

Would you say your an old rogue? No I would say I was a successful f*#^ing bank robber 😂

@tiernanwearen8096

3 жыл бұрын

Just put him in a nursing home

Cigarette "smuggler" John Atkinson stopped at Dover with £2000 worth of cigarettes got a 9 month custodial whilst the Tree Lovers woman who embezzled £84,000 gets 200 hours community service! I used to do a baccy run until UK government forced Belgium to increase their prices. Now it's not worth going unless you live in Dover. Cigarette cost doesn't drop significantly enough until you travel further East....Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc. Dover port used to be extremely bad to get through and I got stopped on one trip but i'd always buy what I smoked and never have mixtures of brands. I never sold any anyway as what I bought was for my own use. I had 6kg of rolling tobacco and the goon who had me, his eyes lit up when he saw the box which i'd not hidden as there's no point. But he took me to an office where the grilling went on for three hours, often repeating the same questions he'd asked before. It was like something out of a Stasi movie. Eventually I was let go as he couldn't prove I was selling it and i'd more than proved it was for my own personal use. Over the years I went across to Belgium I found the goons tended to target single men or a group of men......NEVER a single woman or couple. They gradually eased off due to losing so many officers but now since Brexit I expect they will enforce the pathetic allowance harshly.

Suddenly I feel a bit better about getting old.

R.I.P Sid.....

Good on ya Sid and the rest of them

Damn I love Charlie, what a character

lovely crooks,,,,,,,,

If tobacco wasn't so expensive in the UK they'd be no need for all of this tobacco coming from abroad.

@adailydaughter6196

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it's a good thing to try to put people off when it's so deadly..

Sid, you are priceless! You see yourself as a modern day Robin Hood......Any flies on you are paying a ground rent! You’re the makings of a comedy film....Stay safe! Be Happy.

Charlie is a total legend ! He's a hott ! LOL.

To be honest, on a more serious side, I’m always thinking ‘who has the right to say that we should pay customs and excise anyway’. We should be allowed to buy what we want from other countries, and sell at the price we want here too. I don’t call that a crime.

@grayztube1

4 жыл бұрын

‘who has the right to say that we should pay customs and excise anyway’. The government of your country. Surely you're not so naive to believe that all the taxes collected DON'T end up in the same box? NI contributions wouldn't cover the national health service + State Pensions so things like Excise and other forms of taxation are necessary to make up the difference. And even if you did import things duty free and sell them, would you pay income tax on what you earned and the extra NI contributions? Or are you expecting to access the benefit of all of the public services 'without' paying into the pot which provides them?

@venicawood3894

4 жыл бұрын

@@grayztube1 Absolutely!

hahahaha sid is so funny moved address 7 times so he could scam more :D

I LOVE Charlie!!!

I am not getting my pension which is due to me - the Government moved the goal posts - what are we to do - still be stupid and trust the powers that be - who have scammed us

@harrickvharrick3957

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, with 'they moved the goal posts'? It's just about filling in some forms, isn't it?

@christineaygin4330

4 жыл бұрын

@@harrickvharrick3957 NO it isn't they have deferred the pension for some of us born in the 50's , I won't get mine until I'm 67 , I believe for men it has moved to 70 !!

@harrickvharrick3957

4 жыл бұрын

@@christineaygin4330 I see. It sounds as if there is quite a difference (financially) between a pension and living in benefits of the type they might give you 'standard' at that age ?

Sid you are a legend 👍

Sid reminds me of David Tennant for some reason. He could almost be his grandfather. The same kind of wittiness :')

Wonderiffic !

Sid you old fox!! Love you!!!!!!!

Fair play to them. I hope I can have this much fun when I reach that age,

I can understand why shoplifting and robbery are wrong, but not selling untaxed cigarettes.

Charlie is a OG😁😁😂😂

If I had the courage I would do the same. It's the only way to prove your alive when you get old! Rob the bastards!

I think Charlie is my fav one.....don't hold me to that yet cuz I'm still watching 🤣 🤣

With retirement coming up, there are some great ideas there!

Sid , what a hero

Wow! There were several of them I wouldn't have suspected of anything illegal, unless they didn't know like some of them.

Well......... hat's off to the lot of 'em !!!!!

God bless em all

65,000 cigarettes for herself and a retired wing commander getting nicked ?, hahahahaha , This is Brilliant !!

I ❤️ this

Haha. How can I rob someone who robbed me! Tomme torque all over again

so he has a safe deposit box with other peoples money in it...and lives in a council flat yeah right.....shouldnt he be living it up in Marbella with the few years hes got left if he did...hes still conning people interviewing him here

Long as you don't steal from poor people, I've no qualms with it. Any body with exponential money didn't work for the exponential part of it, they worked for the first part, then used faulty math to quadruple it. Like banks are allowed in the US to lent 1000 for every 100 they have. I"d be rich too if I was automatically able to multiply any money I have by 10.

Wow most old people recognize that they are closer to meeting their maker....& want eternal life in the happy place verses unending flames & suffering.

You've got2love Charlie😀"iv had 5 heart attacks not1 not2 not3 not4 but 5 heart attack!!!........ and a fake eye!!!!😂😂

Sad most of them have worked hard their whole life and in their retirement they are left with crombs. A shame.😠 Understand why the elderly do this. 🙂

@jojokoko1569

2 жыл бұрын

same for the drugs dealers out there

I really thought the name Bunty McSkimming was a comical alias given to her for "Skimming" money from the accounts 🤣 That name is perfect.