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Flopsy
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Flopsy (sometimes also referred to as "The Flop") is slang for a scam in which the hustler arranges to be struck by a car, then feigns injuries. The name comes from the loose-limbed roll across the car hood that causes the hustler to seem like he is flopping around like a rag doll. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A skilled Flopsy artist can take hits up to 25 miles per hour, go rattling across the roof and fall into a miserable pile behind the car without even getting a bruise. This con pays out in a number of different ways. The driver's insurance company will pay out for medical care from a doctor who the hustler is in league with for a split. In countries that have disability payments, that can be milked. If there is a "friendly" lawyer available to work a lawsuit up for "fear and suffering", it can be a very big payout. The hustler can sometimes get an immediate cash settlement from the driver, who may fear that his insurance rates will go up, or who has other reasons not to involve the authorities in the matter. A preferred place to stage this play is near the exit from a bar's car park, where the driver will want to avoid a breath test if the police are brought in. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not related to Mopsy and Cottontail. Also not related to Dropsy. Or Topsy, the elephant Edison killed. Or the King of Omashu's pet. Or the rabbit who's dead and never called me mother. A specific example of Obfuscating Disability. May overlap with contortionist, where the idea of "rag dolling" comes from. See Frivolous Lawsuit for minor but real accidents (and Ambulance Chaser for the lawyer who goes looking for them and might even aid a Flopsy). |
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Exile's Honor: During a court session in Haven, a man who tried this on a coachman is caught thanks to Truth Spell. | |
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In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the damned can get out of Hell faster by intentionally torturing themselves as penance. This, combined with Hell's (intentionally) asinine laws means an immortal zombie can get out of Hell by throwing himself into literally-exploding Hellcars for a few minutes. | |
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Milo and his friends try this in The Oblongs at his mother's request, but just so happen to scam his father and call it off. | |
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Used in Monster. However, instead of being a scam to get money out of someone, it was intended to get prison guards out of their vehicle so that a transported prisoner could escape. It goes horribly wrong when the man gets hit much harder than he anticipated. | |
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Chuck: As a child, Sarah Walker was used in a similar scam by her con artist father. In the version we see, however, her dramatics are merely used as a distraction while he robs a security van. | |
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A failed version of this shows up on a video aired on Tosh0. A dashboard camera shows a man clearly walking out in front of a car. The driver manages to stop in time to avoid hitting him. However, after the car has stopped about two feet away from him, the pedestrian proceeds to flop onto the hood of the car and even rolls up to the windshield, faking an injury. | |
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In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis and Charlie use this in a failed bid to get tickets to the World Series. Emphasis on "failed": Charlie initially volunteers, chickens out, then shoves Dennis in front of a passing car instead, who gets hurt and obviously still does not get tickets. | |
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In the Disney film Oliver & Company, Dodger and his gang apparently do this to steal car stereos: Einstein the Great Dane headbutts a car, Francis the bulldog pretends to be injured or dead, and Tito the chihuahua crawls inside the car and chews through the wiring. A mishap on one of these scams is how Jenny originally gets Oliver. | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer has a distant relative who "jumps in front of cars [to] sue the driver." | |
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On Parks and Recreation, Jean-Ralphio's only successful source of income so far was getting hit by a Lexus. He barely got hurt; he says he knows a guy who can set these things up. | |
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One of the many skills of Ash Morgan in Hustle. He uses an old skull fracture that he acquired in a Bar Brawl that shows up on the xray once taken to hospital to claim on insurance. In fact, the BBC website has made a game out of it which you can play here. In one episode it is found out that he is paying for the medical care of his ex-wife who often did this stunt and had it go bad the last time when the plate in her head shifted. | |
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Beavis And Butthead - Beavis is hit in a parking lot while riding in a shopping cart, and the driver slips him some cash to keep quiet. The two try repeating it to scam other folks, but fail painfully and repeatedly. | |
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In Scavenger Hunt (1979), Dummitz sees a Con Man pulling the flopsy scam in a car park, and decides it would be the perfect way to obtain a Rolls-Royce grille. He then makes multiple attempts to be hit by the Rolls, all of which fail, but which result in him being run over by a succession of different cars. | |
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1937 short film Torture Money involves an entire ring of crooks running a sophisticated operation in which they fake hit-and-run collisions with taxi drivers and pedestrians. The taxi drivers, victims, and witnesses are all in on it. | |
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Happened in a last-season episode of Highlander with an Immortal who would allow himself to be killed (briefly) and his mortal girlfriend who would play the grieving spouse, with the expectation that the driver would try to buy her silence. It goes somewhat awry when they try this on the titular protagonist, who recognizes the con artist. It goes even more horribly wrong later when another driver realizes there are no witnesses, and just murders the girlfriend instead. | |
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Used by the guy who played G.O.B. at the end of the third season premiere of 30 Rock. He says he's going to sue everyone in the same way. | |
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One Dilbert Sunday strip had a variation on this. Dilbert accidentally taps a nearby car and goes to check the damage, only to find the driver horribly twisted and threatening lawsuit. When under oath in the courtroom, he reveals his job as "circus contortionist". (And the entire thing was just to set up a pun.) | |
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The Saints Row series features "Insurance Fraud" minigames where the player can earn money by pulling this scam. Being a video game, you don't so much roll across the bonnet as get catapulted thirty feet into the air before witnessing a very painful-looking demonstration of the Ragdoll Physics engine. You can control your direction in the air, and you rack up more money by getting hit by one car after the next before you hit the ground and break the combo. In the sequels, a good hit can knock the player two or three blocks down the road and about a third as high into the air. In the fourth game, thanks to the player character gaining Super Speed as a superpower, you can potentially ragdoll endlessly through the entire city. In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the damned can get out of Hell faster by intentionally torturing themselves as penance. This, combined with Hell's (intentionally) asinine laws means an immortal zombie can get out of Hell by throwing himself into literally-exploding Hellcars for a few minutes. |
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In Hayate the Combat Butler, this is one of the things Hayate did for money when he lived with his parents, although it's only shown in a brief flashback. | |
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A segment on The Daily Show featured footage from Russian dash-cams, one of them a guy who delivered an unbelievably unconvincing attempt on a car that had stopped a few feet away from him. | |
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In The Con is On, Peter and Harry pull this trick at the hotel-—pretending that the valet has run into Peter-—to scam a free suite. | |
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Blue Bloods had the 'van full of construction workers' version of this go horribly wrong. The people running the con got greedy and put too many people in the van. One person was sitting at an awkward angle and bent down just as the van hit the other car. His neck was broken and the scam turned into a homicide. | |
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A similar scam (also supposedly perpetuated by Russians—the Russian Mob in this case) has a driver get in front of a patsy and then brake so that their car is intentionally rear-ended, forcing the victim to pay out in insurance claims. | |
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One episode of Space Precinct has a boy pretending to be hit by a car and demanding compensation. Then, a person explains to the driver that the boy is known to play such tricks... he's the boy's accomplice, and uses the opportunity to pick the driver's pockets. The driver doesn't care, being busy scanning the alien for suitability for his Organ Theft ring. | |
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In "The Runaway" episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender Sokka and Toph pull this scam on a carriage: Toph earthbends a rock in its path, pretends it hit her, and Sokka pretends to be a guard who takes a bribe to remain silent. | |
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Better Call Saul uses this in the Pilot episode to set the series in motion. A couple of skaters try to pull this on Jimmy McGill, who calls them out on it. He later hires them to pull the scam on someone he wants as a client. It goes horribly wrong, and the main story arc is underway. Jimmy himself is also a skilled practitioner of this maneuver, and as a kid he picked up the nickname "Slippin' Jimmy" because of it. We see him pull a variation of it in a later episode, pretending to trip on a stray drumstick that he himself planted so that he can con the owners of a music store out of their cash. As he's now middle-aged, he really does hurt his back. | |
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Played with in the movie Curly Sue: initially it's played straight, when the titular girl helps her father pull off this scheme with a rich female lawyer ("You've killed him!"). Then later on, said lawyer accidentally hits the guy for real ("Now you've really killed him!"). When the lawyer lets the guy and his daughter stay at her place while the former recovers, the lawyer's boyfriend shows up and tells her they may be scamming her (prompting Sue to say "We're busted" out of earshot), but the lawyer disbelieves this. | |
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The protagonist of Odd John used this repeatedly, though not for monetary gain (at least, not directly). Instead, he'd fake an accident so that he could be carried into the homes of prominent men while a doctor was sent for (this being before the days of paramedics) which would give him an opportunity to study the ruling class at close range. | |
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In The New Statesman, Alan B'Stard and Sarah have just eaten in an expensive restaurant when neither of them have their wallets on them, and on realizing this they put a variation of this trope together on the fly (though with a tone that implies that they've done it many times before). He fills his mouth with the after-meal mints, and sets things up so that a rich tourist accidentally pushes a door into his face, and then he and Sarah splutter out threats of legal action while Alan pretends to be much more badly hurt than he is and apparently spits out broken teeth (actually the mints). The tourist forks out a load of cash on the spot. | |
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The b-plot of the Murdoch Mysteries episode "House of Industry" has George and Henry's motor-car apparently hit a young boy, and they give (the woman who claims to be) his mother money to pay for a doctor. The following day, in uniform, they see the mother and child acting out the same scene with another motorist. Henry comments how unlucky the boy is, to be hit by a car twice in two days. They eventually catch the woman, but the boy escapes by convincing George he hit the car wrong and is really injured this time. | |
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In an early episode of M*A*S*H, Radar encounters a Korean incarnation of this scam - the con is discovered because the doctors have treated the uninjured 'victim' before. the famous "Whiplash" Wang... the fall-down king of Korea. |
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In one episode of Monk, the main character suspects that Sharona’s recently deceased uncle was a con artist. The uncle had a record of getting injured, including being hit by a Mercedes, and then receiving monetary compensation. It turns out the uncle's friend talked him into trying to scam a high-end country club by tripping on a loose brick and pretending to be hit his head hard and fall unconscious. However, once the unknowing third-party witness ran off to find a doctor, the uncle's "friend" murdered him as revenge for sleeping with his wife, believing the skull fracture would be misattributed to the staged trip and fall. Sharona and Monk are able to prove it was murder, although they do so with some reluctance, as the country club was offering Sharona a lot of money to compensate for what they thought was a fatal accident resulting from their negligence. | |
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One episode of Taxi has Louie thinking that he is the target of this scam when he learns the elderly woman he hit is a con-artist who pulls it regularly. Unfortunately for him, it turns out he really did hit her and break her leg. And that was before he pushed her wheelchair down a flight of stairs.. | |
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A variation of this was used in an episode of the original Law & Order, where a pair of lawyers and a doctor were recruiting illegal immigrants working on construction sites, putting them into a van, having them cut off people in traffic, and bilking the insurance companies for soft tissue injuries that were very easy to fake. This backfired when one of them died from a more serious injury that went undiagnosed. | |
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One victim on 1000 Ways to Die was a con artist who specialized in this. He died when one of his marks didn't put the brake on properly, crushing him between her car and the car ahead of hers. | |
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Used to start the con on Penelope in The Brothers Bloom, in a combination of The Flopsy and a pre-planned Meet Cute. | |
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In Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the penguins use this to steal parts from safari jeeps, with Private as the injured. | |
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In The Partridge Family a man (played by Harry Morgan) is hit in a genuine accident, but decides to fake an injury once he realizes who the bus belongs to. | |
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Leverage: Eliot does in "The Juror #6 Job" to ambush two guys who are tailing the mark. Parker does this in "The White Rabbit Job"; pretending to be hit by a car driven by Eliot in order to trigger a panic attack in the mark. |
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In The Wire, this is one of many scams pulled by lovable junkies Bubbles and Johnny. When he throws himself into a construction worker's truck, Johnny has the advantage that he has just gotten out of the hospital and even has a colostomy bag to discourage the driver from examining him too closely. The purpose of the flop, however, is not to get cash from the driver or to commit Insurance Fraud. It's just a diversion while Bubbles steals his load of copper pipes to sell to another contractor. | |
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Cecil Turtle tries this in The Looney Tunes Show, putting a brick behind Bugs's car, and when Bugs hits it, pretending that Bugs hit him and that his shell was damaged. Bugs catches him when Cecil tries to hit Porky with the same scam. | |
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Played with in an episode of The Munsters; Herman is hit by a car driven by a rich man. Being Herman, he just gets up and walks away, oblivious to the idea that it should've even hurt. The rich family offers money to the Munsters so they won't sue, which they somehow misinterpret as being sued and thus don't take it, prompting the rich family to make a better offer, which just increases the amount the Munsters think they're being sued for... | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV NPC civilian have a tendency to jump in the way of your car. Browsing through the radio reveals instructions for how to jump in the way of a car for a quick and easy lawsuit. | |
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In World Trigger, a thug does this to Kuga when he bumps into him, claiming his leg is broken and demanding money to see a doctor. Upon figuring out that he's lying, the otherwise naive Kuga then breaks his leg for real and gives him the money. | |
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This is part of one of R.J.'s heists to get food from the humans in Over the Hedge: Ozzie the possum pretends to have been run over and distracts the humans while the others steal the food. It almost goes awry when the exterminator turns up. | |
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In Emergency!, Roy and Johnny are the marks for a con man doing a flopsy while they are driving the squad. They almost lose their licenses to be paramedics until a police detective finds out about the scam and browbeats him to come clean. | |
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Uncle Albert in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Hole in One" used a variant; using his parachute training to fall safely down open pub cellars. | |
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A very squicky version in 1969 film Boy, due to the con artist parents using their 10-year-old child as the victim getting hit by the car. | |
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