About Frank Abagnale Jr.

If you have seen the movie catch me if you can read the first google hit you find on the mans real name, it will probably be the true TV story that I found.  And the true TV story is better then the movie, not only are the escapes are grittier, bolder and more numerous, and the hustle with twice as much bustle, but there is less moral to the story. Franks story is the real life experience of a kid with a fair amount of opportunity that runs into everyday domestic trouble his parents get divorced. He starts off sloppy with thievery, moves on up to milking his dads gas card for cash, by faking sales with the help of gas station owners. Gets a taste for having enough cash to drive a nice car and treating the ladies.  The story builds gradually with more and more complex hustles.  He's a con artist, what steps him apart from the rest of the crooks, is his intelligence and his knack for impersonation. And he build it up big, credentials and everything he fakes a being a Pan Am Pilot, a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Teacher, he brilliantly spins the hustles farther, and farther out. And he gets away with them all of them, except the wanted posters, an is picked up in Montreal by airport police. And the escapes, crawls out of custody through the toilet of an airplane bathroom, onto a night time runway.  His hustle cant be stopped, more money at every turn. He even gets busted and cons the jail guards into thinking hes an undercover cop and they let him out of jail. He evades arrest on sheer personality on a dim, surrounded by armed cops in his hotel room, he walks out through the middle of them impersonating an FBI who beat them to the catch.  And in the end he still just wants to settle down and have a real life. But he wont get it cause the wanted posters are still out there and its an ex girlfriend that discovers he's a wanted man and turns him in for the prize.  And he does time in Sweden, France and America. He gets out six years later, without any help from the FBI. Worn out he tries to live real life, but cant keep a job as an ex felon. Keeps getting fired when the record pulls up his felonies.  With out anything but the crappiest work, he knows he can do better, and is worth more, he volunteers time with the FBI, lecturing officers on bank check fraud.  Pretty soon he gets real jobs for banks exposing the fraud, and creates a real million dollar career out of it. What gets me is event the true TV story wants to pretend he is reformed. He didn't reform, he just got a real opportunity to be a successful member of society. And that all any one needs to keep them away from crime, is something to loose, a real opportunity to succeed legitimately. That's what keeps kids away from crime. Real high paying work.

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