Going on the Run

MaxSteele · 09-09-2012 01:19PM #1

Let's say due to unfortunate circumstances, you become a wanted man facing a life sentence by the state or you get caught riding the local mafia boss' wife ....

What country would you flee to in order to stay alive or evade capture ?

I'd probably pick Panama myself just like Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows did in prison break.

dodderangler · 09-09-2012 01:21PM

I wouldn't leave the country is move to Leitrim
Nothing happens there
Its last place anyone would look

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 09-09-2012 01:23PM

The following would be ideal but maybe not sustainable:

Central Africa
South America
North Canada

super_furry · 09-09-2012 01:25PM

dodderangler wrote: »

I wouldn't leave the country is move to Leitrim
Nothing happens there
Its last place anyone would look

Leitrim doesn't actually exist outside of a tax write-off. No-one has ever been there and anyone that claims they have is working for the goverment.

minidazzler · 09-09-2012 01:26PM

dodderangler wrote: »

I wouldn't leave the country is move to Leitrim
Nothing happens there
Its last place anyone would look

That's pretty much what I'd do. Going off the grid isn't that hard really. You can grow just get a caravan and grow your own food somewhere in a farmers field in exchange for helping him out with the farm and keeping things quiet. If you think he's gonna talk, just kill him, you're supposed to be in jail for 25 years anyway! No time for half measures.

Then you have an entire farm and you just tell the locals your his nephew.

Ghandee · 09-09-2012 01:29PM

Australia.

Big big BIG country.

Pretty easy to just let the country absorb you, you could spend decades in am out back small town working cash in hand jobs in agriculture etc, and stay completely under the radar to the authorities.

Believe me. :pac:

crazy cabbage · 09-09-2012 01:30PM

I would declare myslef king of this island and denounce any and all other claims to any power in this island. I would award myslef any land and titles that i see fit. I would promote trusted friends to run my kingdom for me.
Anyone that trys to despute that i am king will be beheaded.
Any attempted legal action against me will be view as an act of treason and is punishable by death.

I will never run. The local mafia would only be too glad for me to 'ride the local mafia boss' wife' becouse i am king. It would be their honour.
And i can't become a wanted man becouse i own all the judges and police and to take action against me will result in beheading.

faceman · 09-09-2012 01:30PM

Many of Ireland's criminals flee to spain. You often overhear dodgy conversations in pubs here too. Even John Gilligan has a pub here!

Mr.Crinklewood · 09-09-2012 01:34PM

I'm lazy, so I'd just rent out a garage and buy a treadmill.

girl2 · 09-09-2012 01:36PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Australia.

Big big BIG country.

Pretty easy to just let the country absorb you, you could spend decades in am out back small town working cash in hand jobs in agriculture etc, and stay completely under the radar to the authorities.

Believe me. :pac:

That's where the woman who disappeared in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ran away to

Fukuyama · 09-09-2012 01:37PM

French Foreign Legion if the crime wasn't murder or whatever. If it was they'll hand you over to INTERPOL.

If it was, meh. It's not too hard to live off the grid.

Most fugitives only get caught because they try to visit home or reveal their location to someone in a call, email or whatever.

Cut all ties and leave.

And grow a fugitive beard. Fugitive beards are awesome.

Rigol · 09-09-2012 01:48PM

I'd keep to Europe, you'd stand out less (no sunburned foreigner look with 2 words of local language) and any cover story you cook up would be more plausible. You'd also have your EU passport for any difficulties.

(french foreign legion wouldn't be an option as I'd prefer to die than intensely train every day)

IrishAm · 09-09-2012 01:50PM

Cuba. Open up a beach bar and tell the locals that I am from Newfoundland, Canada. They have Irish accents there. Throw my pursuers off the scent.

Call the bar O'Che's.

cade · 09-09-2012 02:03PM

Definitely Germany. I've been told by a lot of people over the years that I possess more of a European accent that an Irish one and more than a few have also commented that I look German by nature. It helps that I have at one point been rather good at the German language, so I'd say it'd definitely be my best bet.

Red Hand · 09-09-2012 02:06PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

French Foreign Legion if the crime wasn't murder or whatever. If it was they'll hand you over to INTERPOL.

If it was, meh. It's not too hard to live off the grid.

Most fugitives only get caught because they try to visit home or reveal their location to someone in a call, email or whatever.

Cut all ties and leave.

And grow a fugitive beard. Fugitive beards are awesome.

In the film The Fugitive, Richard Kimble shaves off his beard. He had a fugitive clean-shave...doesn't trip off the tongue easily, does it?:pac:

rubadubduba · 09-09-2012 02:17PM

a pair of glasses and a beared and live in the city and keep the head down, Never go rural because people are to suspicious they love a bit of gossip ( who is your man that move in with famer billy down the road )
if your not known to the garda and it was your first time in trouble and if your quite of your past you'll never be caught. ffs you'll get lost in ballymun.

Ghandee · 09-09-2012 02:48PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Cuba. Open up a beach bar and tell the locals that I am from Newfoundland, Canada. They have Irish accents there. Throw my pursuers off the scent.

Call the bar O'Che's.

You might encounter a problem or two there dude.
What with Cuba being a communist country, the govt own everything.
Best you could hope for would be a 49% share in your own bar, as the govt would have to be the 'majority' share holders.

Biggins · 09-09-2012 03:02PM

In case of any future antics, I do have one place in mind - but I'm not saying where!

:P

Father Damo · 09-09-2012 03:08PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Australia.

Big big BIG country.

Pretty easy to just let the country absorb you, you could spend decades in am out back small town working cash in hand jobs in agriculture etc, and stay completely under the radar to the authorities.

Believe me. :pac:

In Australia I by chance run into either someone I went to school with, or through conversation someone who I find out is a friend of a friend from back home, about ten times a year. Great idea

Sunnyisland · 09-09-2012 03:08PM

Mainland Europe, Its easy enough to get lost, The hard bit is staying away from Family & friends.

Ghandee · 09-09-2012 04:26PM

Father Damo wrote: »

In Australia I by chance run into either someone I went to school with, or through conversation someone who I find out is a friend of a friend from back home, about ten times a year. Great idea

In Sydney are you?

Well, thats understandable, every red haired fair skinned Irish man heads there.

I'm talking of the real , Northern Territory, or Rural WA, off the beaten track, a one horse town with few (maybe none( backpackers/tourists. Places where the farms are bigger than Leinster!

You could live the rest of your life quite happily and uninterrupted as a 'Jackaroo' on a cattle or sheep station, live on site, cash in hand.

(I know a guy!):pac:

anhedonia · 09-09-2012 04:38PM

you could go off the grid in India very easily, ever read Shantaram ?

mattjack · 09-09-2012 04:38PM

cade wrote: »

Definitely Germany. I've been told by a lot of people over the years that I possess more of a European accent that an Irish one and more than a few have also commented that I look German by nature. It helps that I have at one point been rather good at the German language, so I'd say it'd definitely be my best bet.

Like this bloke ?

https://www.google.ie/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=800&bih=485&q=batch+loaf&oq=batch+loaf&gs_l=img.12..0j0i24l2j0i5i24l5.3410.7839.0.8911.10.10.0.0.0.0.334.1095.8j1j0j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.-G0VW95jtX0#

Ghandee · 09-09-2012 04:39PM

mattjack wrote: »

Like this bloke ?

https://www.google.ie/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=800&bih=485&q=batch+loaf&oq=batch+loaf&gs_l=img.12..0j0i24l2j0i5i24l5.3410.7839.0.8911.10.10.0.0.0.0.334.1095.8j1j0j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.-G0VW95jtX0#

Thats a batch loaf

mattjack · 09-09-2012 04:41PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Thats a batch loaf

Ze batch loaf ...
https://www.google.ie/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=800&bih=485&q=batch+loaf&oq=batch+loaf&gs_l=img.12..0j0i24l2j0i5i24l5.3410.7839.0.8911.10.10.0.0.0.0.334.1095.8j1j0j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.-G0VW95jtX0#

Ah fuccks sake.

Killer Wench · 09-09-2012 04:41PM

benwavner wrote: »

The following would be ideal but maybe not sustainable:

Central Africa
South America
North Canada

Yeah, go to North Canada. I think they still pay people to settle there.

mattjack · 09-09-2012 04:43PM

Ghandee wrote: »

Thats a batch loaf

http://www.google.ie/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&biw=800&bih=485&tbm=isch&tbnid=q0ITIQbNlnsp1M:&imgrefurl=http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_adolf_hitler.htm&docid=hJg15vmN-D6xzM&imgurl=http://www.historyguy.com/Hitler.jpg&w=2123&h=3064&ei=97hMUKD2JsyQhQf8j4GwCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=373&vpy=87&dur=1382&hovh=270&hovw=187&tx=96&ty=208&sig=101514873492788278823&page=2&tbnh=145&tbnw=98&start=11&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:11,i:177

Killer Wench · 09-09-2012 04:43PM

Did this thread switch on me?

pawrick · 09-09-2012 04:58PM

This guy went on the run for 28 years to Sweden (went awol from the USAF and was on a top ten wanted list)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19331209

I'd say it's pretty easy to go off grid with some short preparation depending on what you want and what you consider off the grid- ie living in a hut as a hermit or changing identity.

df1985 · 09-09-2012 05:23PM

the canaries....i used to work in tenerife, dodgy dodgy characters over there laying low....

BillyMitchel · 09-09-2012 06:16PM

I'd kill the mafia boss, take over and continue riding his misses. Bunch of pussies.

In reality probably the states or another English speaking country so survival might be a bit easier. Cheap ass country with sunshine and sexy women would be nice too.

Going on the Run

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