Going on the Run

MaxSteele

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

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

Praetorian Saighdiuir

The following would be ideal but maybe not sustainable:

Central Africa
South America
North Canada

super_furry

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

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

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

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

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

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

girl2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Father Damo

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

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

Ghandee

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

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

mattjack

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

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

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

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

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

Did this thread switch on me?

pawrick

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

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

BillyMitchel

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.

MaxSteele

df1985 wrote: »

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

Tenerife would be a lot safer and peaceful if they introduced apartheid there.

Well at least in Playa Des Las Americas.

Dangerous Man

MaxSteele wrote: »

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.

I actually know a man this happened to, only it wasn't the mafia - it was triads in Honk Kong, and the head honcho's daughter. It's an interesting story.

TAlderson

The key is to go someplace where they either don't have an extradition treaty with wherever you're running from or offer asylum for the reason you're running. Otherwise, you have to run from both the authorities at home and the authorities in your new country. If you're on the run in Europe, a European Arrest Warrant can be issued, which is valid throughout the EU. Better to be in a country where you don't have to avoid their authorities, you just have to avoid notice from the people looking for you.

-Tyler

event

thailand I'd say.
Can disappear to the north if needed, can live well on not a lot of money.
I doubt we have an extradition treaty with them if you were ever caught.

Mickey H

anhedonia wrote: »

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

Have you learned nothing from "The Bourne Supremacy"?

mattjack wrote: »

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He was Austrian...

FouxDaFaFa

Mexico.

I've had a job where I had to dress in traditional Mexican dress and discuss Mexican history so I would blend seamlessly in.*



*Except for my blindingly white skin and distinct lack of spanish.

Still, think how great the food would be.

dermo88

Costa Rica. I speak Spanish, and there are blond haired blue eyed Costa Ricans from Immigration from Poland and Germany after WW2. Its likely the safest in Latin America also.

jefreywithonef

I'd start a new life.. under the sea.

Under the sea,
Under the sea,
There'll be no accusations,
Just friendly crustaceans
Under the Seeeeeeeeeeeeea!

holystungun9

super_furry wrote: »

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.

Isn't that where CuChulain came from?

holystungun9

dermo88 wrote: »

Costa Rica. I speak Spanish, and there are blond haired blue eyed Costa Ricans from Immigration from Poland and Germany after WW2. Its likely the safest in Latin America also.

Ticas are HOT!!!

NUTLEY BOY

Join the priesthood. No one beats them for hiding people

Border-Rat

Eh... South Armagh. Spending the remainder of my days working on Slabs farm, chewing straw and writing my memoirs.

paky

Vietnam. No extradition treaty and even if you did get caught you could probably bribe your way out

Pottler

Ok smarty poops, ye've just done the unmentionable, everyone and their cat is looking for you, Gards have an apb out with your picture, quick question- how do you get out of the country? Asuming you've a nautical bent, whipping a boat and setting sail might be a runner, assuming you have fuel and know what you are at. At a pinch, geting onto a ferry might be risky but possible, what would the good people of AH do. Big box and posting yourself to your aunt in camden does not count, btw.

tayto lover

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:

Have they a Property Tax there

tayto lover

Biggins wrote: »

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

The Dail Bar ? It rarely closes and you can mingle with all the other criminals and even run a tab.

BizzyC

If I tell you, they'll know where to look for me....

MaxSteele

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I actually know a man this happened to, only it wasn't the mafia - it was triads in Honk Kong, and the head honcho's daughter. It's an interesting story.

Jesus. Now you're obliged to tell us this interesting story.

D1stant

Pottler wrote: »

Ok smarty poops, ye've just done the unmentionable, everyone and their cat is looking for you, Gards have an apb out with your picture, quick question- how do you get out of the country? Asuming you've a nautical bent, whipping a boat and setting sail might be a runner, assuming you have fuel and know what you are at. At a pinch, geting onto a ferry might be risky but possible, what would the good people of AH do. Big box and posting yourself to your aunt in camden does not count, btw.

You watch too much TV

The Gardai wouldn't know what an APB was if it got stuck up their hole