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Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?

i have precisely..... fuck all in my wallet. some reciepts and that's it.

i think i could make it about as far as i could walk before i died of dehydration.

i might be able to scrape enough change to buy a coke to keep me going an extra couple of days.


that, or i'll find Ruffy and steal his identity. that'll keep me amused (and alive) for a while ;)

id join a religious cult. im pretty sure i can find a few online by dropping into the public library for a few minutes.

if i have enough money ill take a bus to as close as i can get. if not, ill hitchhike.

Depends.

How much money is in my wallet?

Regardless, I could probably be able to make it out into the Central Texas hill country and make a living there. Either working or living off the wildlife and vegetation.

Lets say I have about $300 on me.

I'd buy:

A water purifier, buckets for collecting water, a map of the area, toilet paper, various other necessary survival gear, bottled water in bulk, and a wilderness survival guide.

From home I'd bring:

A tent, my Mosin-nagant with the 35-40 rounds I have, AK-47 with 500-600 rounds I have left, boots, articles of clothing, and I'd grab all the soups and preserved food I could find. I'd also get some brown blankets so I could throw them over my blue 280z if helicoptors came 'alookin'.

So I'd definately go with the subsidence living, and see how long that could carry me.

Take enough hostages to get some nice shoes is my plan. Gotta look after yer feet.

Oh also, I'd somewhat speed off into the distance by automotive device. And then sleep in it. Forever. Tada.

I have about $40 on me, and a full tank of gas. That'll easily allow me to do this. In fact, this trip takes me less than 1/2 a tank of gas.

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I lived on the border for a year and have friends in Ontario who would put me up until things could get figured out. Of course, if the Canucks were in on it, I'd be screwed.

I always carry my identity card and a permit to use public transportation for free on me, and, currently, some foreign money, so I could drive wherever I wanted, although this ticket thingy won't work abroad... I guess I'd stay only some dozen kilometers away, only leaving the country if really necessary.

Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?

... I would get as far as the beach... swiming between islands wouldn't work.

I could try hide in the mountains... but hunting would be difficult since wild pig would be difficult to kill with a pocket knife.

*Thinks back to a television commercial about cops in Hawaii.*

Picture a car chase, leading outside the city, through the mountain, along beach roads...

Finally one cop turns to his partner and says...
"Where does he think he's going... Doesn't he know this is an island?"

Construct an earthquake machine using only materials found in my garage and threaten to destory the worlds cities one by one until my demands are met. My demands being a trillion dollars in pennies, four two-headed cows, sixteen lawn gnomes and a roasted clove stuffed with chickens.

I would live off the fat stored in my tail.

Construct an earthquake machine using only materials found in my garage and threaten to destory the worlds cities one by one until my demands are met. My demands being a trillion dollars in pennies, four two-headed cows, sixteen lawn gnomes and a roasted clove stuffed with chickens.

Your last name isn't MacGyver, is it?

I'd steal Pure Metal's photos and sell them as my own.

... I would get as far as the beach... swiming between islands wouldn't work.

I could try hide in the mountains... but hunting would be difficult since wild pig would be difficult to kill with a pocket knife.

*Thinks back to a television commercial about cops in Hawaii.*

Picture a car chase, leading outside the city, through the mountain, along beach roads...

Finally one cop turns to his partner and says...
"Where does he think he's going... Doesn't he know this is an island?"

are you sure you cant grab a surf board, someone's stash of dope and hang out with the beach bums until you find someone with a boat who is willing to take you with?

I have just enough money and gas to make it to my friend, whose family would take me in and hide me from pretty much everyone if need be.

The money thats in my wallet...thats about £7 and €15.

I'd head to the coach station and get one of those megabus coaches for £1 (and 50p booking fee! :/) to London. And then I'd probably get caught, because those things take forever to go anywhere.

Alternatively, I'd call my best mate and invite her along for an adventure. And I'd make sure she withdrew all her cash before anyone suspected anything.

I'd get into my (well, my dad's, but he wouldn't notice) car, go round my best mates, invite him along with all his cash, then go to London and join the "underground". We'd be like the A team, only lower case and not so cool.

We'd be like the A team, only lower case and not so cool.

I don't think I've ever agreed with you, but that-that was funny.

Quality.

I have enough money in my wallet to go interstate, pick up a cash job under a new name, and slowly build a new identity. Or, if circumstances were a little more tense I could stowaway on one of the huge cargo ships in Botany Bay to Europe, then make my way to Paris and join the French Foreign Legion. The bonus being that whilst still being a fugitive, I earn valuable language skills and a French Passport in the interim. Who doesn't want a French Passport under a pseudonym?

Fuck, this would suck for me. I don't have a car, I don't have any money, and I'm too far away from the border to hop it. I'd be screwed.

Now, give me a car and $500 bucks, and I'm good to go.

In order:

1. Jump off water fall.
2. Proclaime innocence.
3. Find evidence to get the guilty man.
4. Bring down a major pharmaceutical company.
5. Be friends with Tommy Lee Jones.

are you sure you cant grab a surf board, someone's stash of dope and hang out with the beach bums until you find someone with a boat who is willing to take you with?

Grabbing someone's surfboard... that's like grabbing a motorcycle from a Hell's Angel member; Slow, Painful death.

Grabbing a stash of dope? rather grab the surfboard...

The cops regularly patrol the beaches... so hiding with the beach bums will not last.

I can try to HIJACK a boat... but I doubt it would out run the coast guard...


:p

Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?

Well, it would be difficult, me being six feet tall and having a dialysis machine. But as long as Congress offered a fifty million dollar bounty, I think I would be okay. There are plenty of caves.

I reckon I could high-tail it out of Glasgow and get up to the north of Scotland relatively easily. There’s a few places I know I could certainly hide in for some time; assuming I managed to get to them.

As for lasting on my own merits, winter would certainly give me a run for my money.

Well, it would be difficult, me being six feet tall and having a dialysis machine. But as long as Congress offered a fifty million dollar bounty, I think I would be okay. There are plenty of caves.

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I'd make sure to live my life like a movie/video game, meaning:

-find hot chick, and make love to her before final scene
-find geeky computer nerd
-find bad ass black guy
-find best friend that betrays us by calling the authorities and killing the black guy and nerd, and in the end I'd kill him.
-steal shotgun, katana, and a crossbow. Since none of those will work, i'll find some throwing knives.


The rest should play out to where I am let off innocent, despite killing a man, catching a town on fire, and causing a small country to sink into the ocean.

Grabbing someone's surfboard... that's like grabbing a motorcycle from a Hell's Angel member; Slow, Painful death.

Grabbing a stash of dope? rather grab the surfboard...

The cops regularly patrol the beaches... so hiding with the beach bums will not last.

I can try to HIJACK a boat... but I doubt it would out run the coast guard...


:p

now wasnt there just a thread on having a negative attitude.

to avoid the bad guys (whoever is after you) the "key" (like id know) is to put yourself in a place where no one would expect you to be and avoid all the places you normally go.

i dont know how you spend your days but disappearing into the underbelly of hawaiian life might be possible. (assuming you dont live in the underbelly of hawaiian life). some unlikely spot where junii would never ever go but where junii2 would fit right in with his new attitude and new identity. until he can leave on someone's boat or plane.

I'd go to some make-up artist, who I would randomly know, and be transformed through the use of prosthetics into a middle age lady with glasses and a beehive hairstyle.

Comedic capers would then ensue as I struggle in coming to terms with life as a lady, wearing high heels and speaking in a high pitched voice as I slowly unravel the mystery of my fugitive status.

My only problem would be fending of IL Ruffino's constant advances in a series of classic scenes where I find bizarre excuses not to go up to his place for some coffee and a little light jazz.

I would pack the cats in their travel box, leave a note for my sometimes boyfriend, Jerry, and hit the road, hitchhiking to the border. Once in Canada, I would change my name to Boopsie LaRue and make a living as a female impersonator (since I AM female, this would not be as difficult as it sounds). In five years, they would realize that I was innocent, and I could come back home, but by then I would be the toast of... hang on... I'll think of one... ok the Nunavut Territory, and have settled into a nice life with Raul, the gorgeous but confused lumberjack. Eventually someone in my family would track me down and offer to have my mail forwarded to me, and one day I would be featured in a documentary about transexual cabaret performers in remote locales on Canadian Public Television, where Jerry would see me and charter a small plane and come and beg me to come home. If he had remembered to water my plants while I have been gone, I just might go back with him... if not, it is me and Raul in the frozen woods forever.

All this on $16.78 and an Albany bus pass. Oh, wait... and two coupons for free one scoop ice cream cones at Friendlies.

Head up to lake arrowhead and live like Ted Kazynski

Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?

h-11 yes. i wouldn't be a fugitive from any legitimate offence, but you never know when politics might make ANYone one!

and you're absolutely right about credit cards and bank accounts, but don't forget cars either. you get in one and you're an elephant in wet snow.

walk to the next town, take a bus, you're a zillion times more annonymous on a bus, get off bus at a town within distance of another town you can walk to, take another bus from there. also of course never head for anyplace where there's anyone that anyone knows that you know, especially familly. everyone gets caught running 'home'.

the air force survival, evasion and escape manual is still useful, even if interigators have stood it on its head, as long as you're using it to say out of custody.

large towns have soup lines and these are very annonymous. you meet more people who are fugitives from something or another, gennerally warents from skipped court appearances in them, then there are cops to chaise them if they wanted to. who are USUALLY on their best behaivior, if they have half a brain, to avoid attracting attention to themselves, which is of course, ever and always the main thing.

there's obvoisly no one foolproof plan. but being inconspicuous IS the main thing, and avoiding the more obvious ways of being tracked, without being obvoius about doing so.

it does help to have a LOT of hiking experience. hiking boots are WAY more useful then running shoes.

and places where a backpack or duffle won't make you conspicuous are good too.

there are too many variables for there to be one foolproof plan, but there are probabilities, and understanding them is all you really have to go on. and being a really good camillion helps. a lot.

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Join Scientology. They'll protect me.

I would retreat into the barren wasteland that is known as the Canadian wild. I shall join a pack of wolves. I'll do all the typical wolf things: hunt, sleep, mate, devourer the young of my enemies. Once I have remastered wolfdom, I shall challenge the alpha male, then eat his babies when I win. After that, I'll probably mate some more and be the first to eat a fresh kill.

Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?

Eh. Easy. I've got about 100€ cash in my wallet. I have my hair dyed and cut in the next 30 minute, I can even buy face paints in the next 10 minutes with ease, and I'm less than 100 m away from the Stazione Centrale (the largest railway hub of northern Italy). I can even buy some new non-expensive clothes in less than 30 minutes. To sum it up, give me 30 minutes and you won't even recognize me unless you get very near.
I can easily, in one night's time, walk to Switzerland (50 km) and then get all the cash I want at an ATM... then, move to another country like Liechtenstein (no extradition) or ask asylum to the Swiss.

I live in the most isolated city in the world and have no idea how to survive in the wilderness, I'm pretty much screwed. I give myself six hours, maybe less.

I can't imagine why I would be on the run, but living where I do--up in the mountains--and having at least some knowledge of wilderness survival, I'd be okay for awhile, so long as I took some clothes as well as some backup food in case I wasn't able to gather everything all the time.

Hmm... I can either grab the camping gear, at which case I could probably survive up in the Japanese Alps pretty handedly, until about winter when the snow would be more than just a minor inconvenience. I could try to force my way into a winterized mountain hut though.

More likely, I could get to Tokyo and blend in with the rest of the gaijin. A little English teaching on the side with some of the less reputable English schools and keep moving around the various Internet cafes for places to sleep and I think I could keep myself pretty well out of the way for quite some time.

Let's say, for whatever reason, you've suddenly turned fugitive. You have to flee immediately and have only the money in your wallet. Making things worse, you can't use your bank account or credit cards because that would allow "them" to track you. You can’t rely on your family either, possibly because they've disowned you, or possibly because you just don't want to endanger them.

How far could you make it? Where would you go? Would you even be able to survive the night?
Eric Rudolph springs to mind. I could probably live in the woods around here for a number of years.

Everyone has some friend that they can depend on -- notice that doesn't violate the "no family" rule...

Hmm... I can either grab the camping gear, at which case I could probably survive up in the Japanese Alps pretty handedly, until about winter when the snow would be more than just a minor inconvenience. I could try to force my way into a winterized mountain hut though.

More likely, I could get to Tokyo and blend in with the rest of the gaijin. A little English teaching on the side with some of the less reputable English schools and keep moving around the various Internet cafes for places to sleep and I think I could keep myself pretty well out of the way for quite some time.
That worked for John Mark Karr for quite a while. Until he wanted the free ride back to the USA...

Hmm... I can either grab the camping gear, at which case I could probably survive up in the Japanese Alps pretty handedly, until about winter when the snow would be more than just a minor inconvenience. I could try to force my way into a winterized mountain hut though.

More likely, I could get to Tokyo and blend in with the rest of the gaijin. A little English teaching on the side with some of the less reputable English schools and keep moving around the various Internet cafes for places to sleep and I think I could keep myself pretty well out of the way for quite some time.

Aren't you white, though? Wouldn't that make you stick out like a sore thumb in Japan?

Well, I would definitely withdraw a pile of money before leaving town because I have exactly $5 in there now and there's a bank machine just down the street. Granted, due to account limits (damnit) I'd only be able to take out $100. I'd probably hitchhike my way back to the last city I lived and find my friends who still live there. I could probably get someone willing to put me up for at least a couple of days and would help me get away et c. I could also call in some favours from some other friends who owe them to me, especially one who is nearly impossible to find himself.

Either that or I'd go find the random guy I met the other day who seemed like the sort of person who wouldn't mind hiding/helping me if I was a fugitive.

Move to Second Life.

Aren't you white, though? Wouldn't that make you stick out like a sore thumb in Japan?
In Tokyo there's enough non-Japanese that I would get lost in the crowd (Every time I go to Tokyo I keep thinking to myself, "Wow! It's a gaijin (Foreigner)!" which tells you how isolated I have been). As for the Japanese Alps, there's more than enough rugged areas to hide in where you'd never be found, Japanese or not.

Currently I would get my hiking boots on a sturdy pair of trousers in a rucksack I'd pack my gas stove, waterproof matches, and a pot, in addition to some other clothes a map of the UK, compass and Swiss army knife and phone charger. I would then copy all the numbers on my phones sim to the phone it's self and dispose of the sim. I also pocket a batter operated shaver (as in the hair kind, not the beard kind) and a wind up fm radio with battary capabilities. I would then go to the bank and withdraw all £300 from my account and max out my credit card with cash withdrawals, an other £200 right now.

I currently have £520.

With that I need to survive until I can et a passport of someone who looks like me and get a flight to Spain.

If popular culture teaches us anything it is that as a man the best place to hide is dressed as a nun in a nunnery.