This was inspired by the movie 25th Hour. After watching it, i couldn't help wondering why people don't run instead of getting locked up. If it was anywhere over 3 years, it'd be a no-brainer for me. I'd run across the continent and get a cash job that'd make me enough money for a plane ticket. To Spain, or Ibiza, Hawaii, Dominican. Someplace warm where i could get a job DJing at small local clubs. What a great life that'd be. So why don't people run? If you're smart, no one will ever find you.
Why not run instead of getting locked up?
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Seeing as we're all lost, edit a *SPOILER* into the title and spoil away at "25th Hour" or whatever.
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Sometimes, things just happen. You can get put away for a long time for even accidently killing someone. Sh1t happens, man.Originally posted by: zCypher
key words there...people are stupid. Therefore the smarter thing is to avoid being chased in the first place.
Watched too many movies eh? Life doesn't immitate movies. If it did, we would all be attractive females with low self esteem who some how get the weather girl job for a tv station, and find a man after he reads your diary.
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Probably because they don't have the resources to make it happen. It probably cost a lot of money to run. This guy locally was accused and tried for raping three girls. He tried to run to the Phillipines but they caught him in Guam. They catch on to you pretty quickly. It isn't the easiest thing to do.
See, that's where you're wrong. Most people have no IDEA what life holds because all they can see is what's shown to them. I sometimes tell people stories about my life and they tell me they sound like they came from movies. And when i look back at some things, they do. But not because they're impossible - just because ordinary life is just so ORDINARY that everything outside is just hard to believe.
Yeah, but if was a movie director of an Academy Award winning movie, now that would be different.
What did he do? From what you told me, this man is 1) pretty stupid 2) a hardcore criminal. He probably got caught by cops in Guam for some petty crime, like snatching a purse. They got his prints and boom! If not, it was just due to stupidity. You could change your appearance completely in a matter of months. Grow a mullet and a goatee or shave your head. No one would recognize you unless you did something stupid. Osama could walk down Wall Street without a beard and no one would even consider the possibility...
Hah, i wasn't referring to that particular example. Just random things. When i read that, i remembered several people telling me that a particular thing i just told them sounds like it came out of a movie. Not that i've ever done anything EXTRAORDINARY.. but i'm not referring to Superman movies here either.
3 years I could do standing on my head. I spent most of my teenage years locked up and 3 years in jail just isnt worth running. I think I could get through 3 years of jail without having any major infractions that would keep me there longer, and the possibilities of gettng out and being able to get some sort of decent life together are still there.
10 years? Hell yeah I would run. I'd also die before I went back to jail, if possible. If not, as soon as I got to state pen, the first person to look at me funny would get something shoved in their eye socket. I'd end up dying in jail or getting the death penalty.
10 years without seeing my kid, 10 years without being in the workforce, a nice big mark on my criminal record to keep me from getting ANY gainful employment. 10 years of being locked up with the scum of the earth. If I did make it out, I'd be so screwed up and screwed over by the time I did, my life would be worth it's weight in sh!t anyway. Screw that.
However, I'm older and wiser now. I tend to avoid situations that could even raise the possibility of spending the night in jail. Life is a lot easier that way.
10 years? Hell yeah I would run. I'd also die before I went back to jail, if possible. If not, as soon as I got to state pen, the first person to look at me funny would get something shoved in their eye socket. I'd end up dying in jail or getting the death penalty.
10 years without seeing my kid, 10 years without being in the workforce, a nice big mark on my criminal record to keep me from getting ANY gainful employment. 10 years of being locked up with the scum of the earth. If I did make it out, I'd be so screwed up and screwed over by the time I did, my life would be worth it's weight in sh!t anyway. Screw that.
However, I'm older and wiser now. I tend to avoid situations that could even raise the possibility of spending the night in jail. Life is a lot easier that way.
If its big, you HAVE to run. Not even questionable. And why can't you? It's not like every cop in the country, let alone the continent or the world would be looking for you.
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Uhh.. please Google Aimal Kansi, and read up on him. He ran away to a place where the only law is the gun. He was caught while sleeping, many years later after commiting the crime.
The ONLY reason he got caught is because someone found out who he was. He shoulda grown a mustache and kept his mouth shut!
What about the movie Blow, or perhaps Catch Me If You Can?
they were all true stories ...but then again they all got caught.
Yea i feel bad for Jung. He got betrayed by everyone he trusted and loved. But if you think about it, had he known better and surrounded himself with more trustworthy people...
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