| Telegraph Office Scene in the Movie "The Sting" |
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To convince their target, the con artists "borrowed" a Western Union
local office for a few minutes. They pretended to be painters with an
official work order and marched into the manager's private office
announcing they had orders to paint and began to set up. The manager
went out to the front office while they worked. Then one of the
painters posed as the office manager. The con target was brought in
through a rear door to meet the fake "manager" so the scheme appeared
ok. As soon as that was done the painters took off. The real manager
came back in thoroughly puzzled.
It was a good movie.