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 I got one of those insurance scam calls. 

They told me that they wanted to help me about a small incident that happened with my car two years ago. 

Of course, this is untrue because the insurance is in my dad's name (I'm a listed driver) and I have never been involved in any traffic incidents.

Anyway, I proceeded to tell this person about what happened. But I went full dramatic. I told him that I was driving 70 km/h in a 65 km/h zone and I hit a pedestrian.

I then proceeded to tell him that the pedestrian went all over my car and went like two metres into the air. 

He seemed to have some kind of script and was faltering because he was like "well, did you exchange information with this person...?"

But I kept going. I told him that I kept driving over the body, and then I reversed back to finish the job and that I probably killed him.

While I was telling the story, I was pretending to sob, and he was just so bewildered that he kept asking me if I exchanged information.

"Dude, I killed him. I can't exchange information with a dead person."

Then he got really mad and started swearing at me and calling me a time waster and an awful person, then he hung up.