How long could you live like Julian Assange for?

dd972

I think I'd be able to do maybe six months or a year at a stretch under house arrest providing I had the internet, shower facilities, enough money to get by, a treadmill for exercize like Assange has, etc.

Or is the idea of spending x amount of time indoors something you couldn't handle at all. I think a city dweller would find this easier than a culchie.

Molester Stallone

He's had plastic surgery & left months ago, hew working in Burger King on O'Connell st, kept telling us all the secret of the flame grilled whopper!

Johnny Drama_11

Not long.

I would get cabin fever in the first 48 hours.

frag420

If he is anything like how he was portrayed in the movie The Fifth Estate then I would prob kill him within the first day......

osarusan

Depends how much space there is. I mean, is there even a garden he can walk about in inside the embassy?

Last year, we moved from the 3rd floor to the 4th floor of a block of flats. For 3 days, I never went below the 3rd floor, just carrying stuff up and moving stuff around.

I felt pretty repressed somehow, by the end of it.

Alf. A. Male

Personally I couldn't do it, but I suspect he quite enjoys the notoriety and how he has been pursued only serves to justify his actions in his own head at least.

I couldn't bear it, even worse not knowing when or if it would end. If you can't leave, it's prison, no matter how nice it might be.

razorblunt

It's like Sunday hangovers, you're sat in old pair of shorts and rugby jersey in the same position since you woke at 11, it comes to 6pm and you get a fit of energy that you need to be outside these walls!
Imagine that every day.

Agent Smith

I'd say he's spending all the time catching up on tv. His Netflix account must be maxed out.


Why don't the British discretely offer someone who works in the embassy money to snatch him?

jimgoose

Molester Stallone wrote: »

He's had plastic surgery & left months ago, hew working in Burger King on O'Connell st, kept telling us all the secret of the flame grilled whopper!

Was. People became so enraged over him taking the last bit of romance out of the BK experience he was rode outta town on a rail. As of this week he's sporting a handlebar moustache and working in a gas-station in Dunmanway.

anto9

He has a far better life than being in a real prison .Some prisoners have to stick it for life .He is a nasty individual (by many accounts ) so maybe Karma for him .

SamAK

anto9 wrote: »

He has a far better life than being in a real prison .Some prisoners have to stick it for life .He is a nasty individual (by many accounts ) so maybe Karma for him .

Is he? How so?

jimgoose

SamAK wrote: »

Is he? How so?

Bastard short-sold me in Dunmanway this morning. :mad:

CINCLANTFLT

... and Ian Bailey in Schull... I see a pattern emerging...

jimgoose

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

... and Ian Bailey in Schull... I see a pattern emerging...

Yeah, he's the fella with the Dee Snider wig on the car-wash. Another cowboy!!

Ranchu

I'd say the extreme paranoia wether its warranted or not is his first problem.

anto9

SamAK wrote: »

Is he? How so?

He back stabbed his German partner .You might find it on youtube .

HugsiePie

I reckon a month before going insane....

Stheno

Deleted User wrote: »

I would get cabin fever in the first 48 hours.

Me too

seenitall

dd972 wrote: »

I think I'd be able to do maybe six months or a year at a stretch under house arrest providing I had the internet, shower facilities, enough money to get by, a treadmill for exercize like Assange has, etc.

Or is the idea of spending x amount of time indoors something you couldn't handle at all. I think a city dweller would find this easier than a culchie.

What do you mean by this? How long before you lost your mind or something equally dramatic?

Have you ever asked any that come out of the 'joy how they stuck it out?

Human beings are tremendously adaptable. Not as adaptable as rats, but still.

I reckon I'd be able for it just as long as JA will be, if not longer.

Ruu

I wouldn't last anymore than a day or so.

Knex*

I can barely stay a day straight in my house as is, and that's without having the knowledge that this is going to be my life forever. That thought would make it all the worse again.

end of the road

Agent Smith wrote: »

Why don't the British discretely offer someone who works in the embassy money to snatch him?

why would they, the british don't actually care about him, all the nonsense was just a political game to be seen to be against him doing what he did, doing what you suggest would be a form of kidnaping, and would set a dangerous precedent for shall we say not so scrupulous countries to start such schemes of their own against any british embassys which will mean we will have the british government moaning for the next 100 years, no, he's fine where he is, if the sweeds really wanted to question him i'm sure they could fly some detectives to britain and question him in the embassy, but the truth is nobody really cares whether he comes out or not, and britain isn't going to do anything to damage any relations with countries they have relations with over someone held up in an embassy, so the decisian will be left to him

Donkey Oaty

end of the road wrote: »

why would they, the british don't actually care about him, all the nonsense was just a political game to be seen to be against him doing what he did, doing what you suggest would be a form of kidnaping, and would set a dangerous precedent for shall we say not so scrupulous countries to start such schemes of their own against any british embassys which will mean we will have the british government moaning for the next 100 years, no, he's fine where he is, if the sweeds really wanted to question him i'm sure they could fly some detectives to britain and question him in the embassy, but the truth is nobody really cares whether he comes out or not, and britain isn't going to do anything to damage any relations with countries they have relations with over someone held up in an embassy, so the decisian will be left to him

Assange is afraid of a lengthy sentence. Hope he hasn't read that.

Strumms

He has been there a long time.. The story is getting a little old. Can he not try and escape to Tangiers under he cover of night dressed as the back end of a pantomime horse ?

Lapin

No length.

Bad enough being stuck indoors all the time, but being right nextdoor to Harrods and
not being able to nip over to their food hall for goodies would be too much for me.

Andrew_Doran

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Lapin

osarusan wrote: »

Depends how much space there is. I mean, is there even a garden he can walk about in inside the embassy?

Nope.

The building that houses the Ecuador Embassy is also home to the Columbian Embassy.

Both embassies only occupy part of the ground floor of the building.

The remainder is made up of private apartments.