Not everything is as it appears, when we moved to Wakefield there was a guy who lived in a block of flats in the town centre he had a Prothsetic leg & a false eye, he always wore a blazer with the Royal green Jackets crest & half a dozen medals, the story he told was that he lost his leg in the Falklands & he was very convincing until he was challenged about his medals, the truth came out, he’d never served in any of the forces, he lost his leg & eye through drug abuse, he’d bought the medals from market stalls, when asked why he lied he stated that he was in a pub & someone was taking the piss out of his disabilities so he made up the war hero story & this earned him a couple of pints, tales spread & he was seen as a hero so wherever he went people were buying him drinks.