Doing a runner

[gettin2dizzy]

Inspired by Mr Darwin has anyone ever fancied/done a runner?

I doubt you'd get far nowadays before the TV licensing agency were on your ass;) It's be nice to know I could if everything went tits up!

[MiniMatt]

Fancied doing a runner? Oh god yes.

Done a runner? Well, let's just say that the guy they're questioning at the moment is not the real Mr Darwin.... hmm, I've said too much....

[G]

Never thought about it, there is many ways to trace a person nowdays that most people dont even think about. For example you couldnt runaway to london as they have those new fancy face recognition cameras on trial:rolleyes:

You would have to run away and turn into a hobit type person who lives in a house on their own.

[Sosha]

Mr Darwin..... there's a joke in there somewhere...

[MiniMatt]

I reckon it's still do-able with an accomplice, ie. the Darwin Method.

Step 1. Apply for a new 10 year passport.
Step 2. Tell everyone you're off for a rambling weekend in Dartmoor / Bovington etc
Step 3. Have your accomplice report you missing
Step 4. Live in the attic for seven years and work on your Mega Poster status
Step 5. After declared dead, figure that they're really unlikely to cross check passports against the register of births and deaths and fly off somewhere. Panama's nice.
Step 6. Apply for a passport in your new country. Bingo. New identity.

[gettin2dizzy]

I reckon it's still do-able with an accomplice, ie. the Darwin Method.

Step 1. Apply for a new 10 year passport.
Step 2. Tell everyone you're off for a rambling weekend in Dartmoor / Bovington etc
Step 3. Have your accomplice report you missing
Step 4. Live in the attic for seven years and work on your Mega Poster status
Step 5. After declared dead, figure that they're really unlikely to cross check passports against the register of births and deaths and fly off somewhere. Panama's nice.
Step 6. Apply for a passport in your new country. Bingo. New identity.
:money: I don't know what you're talking about :money:

And if the police had DNA, prints, retina scans,face recognition and rfid implants.....

We're already most of the way there!

[Sosha]

Then there's the Darwin award bit....

Step 7 - Fall out with your wife, come home & pretend you've lost your memory...

[Pedrosa]

Would disapearing suddenly to go and set up a remote pig farm be a good way of staying off the radar screen do you think?:rolleyes:

[gettin2dizzy]

Would disapearing suddenly to go and set up a remote pig farm be a good way of staying off the radar screen do you think?:rolleyes:
With your 'daughter' Madeline :smt045

[Spiderman]

I once did a runner from a restaurant without paying the bill, does that count?

[gettin2dizzy]

......like a spider can...

[DanDare]

I once did a runner from a restaurant without paying the bill, does that count?

Not if it was Mc Donalds or Burger King ;):D

[Welsh_Wizard]

..if I ever did decide to do a 'runner', I'd certainly be looking for more than 25k as Mr Darwin and his missus decided on. Serious criminal acts like that would need at least 500k to sit well with the missus..

[Spiderman]

PMSL.... it was almost as bad. A Pizza & Pasta chain, cant remember the name of it now. Right in the midlle of Leicester Square too, lol.
best bit was i'd let the other 2 leave descreetly already so it was just me that had to run, the other got to walk calmly back to the car....and move it by the time i got there!! :lol:

[gettin2dizzy]

PMSL.... it was almost as bad. A Pizza & Pasta chain, cant remember the name of it now. Right in the midlle of Leicester Square too, lol.
best bit was i'd let the other 2 leave descreetly already so it was just me that had to run, the other got to walk calmly back to the car....and move it by the time i got there!! :lol:
Pretty gay thing to do though. When this happened in a restaurant I worked in it came out of the staff tips...

[Spiderman]

Pretty gay thing to do though. When this happened in a restaurant I worked in it came out of the staff tips...

If your old boss took it out of tips than hes an a-hole as those are tips and i'm sure no one working there signed a contract saying that company losses could be taken from their eanings did they?

What a gay thing to do to let someone take money out your pocket.

:roll:

[gettin2dizzy]

Basis was that it was our job to maintain control over the floor.

I've worked for a lot of big chains with odd practices. Some where the managed took his share of the tips when it was divided up on basis of hours worked - so he took the lion share, some where the tips never materialised, all where hours disappear off your timesheet. In the 9 bars/restaurants I've worked in I've never found a completely honest workplace. Pretty rubbish really.


Could you get out the country nowadays doing a runner? Presumably there's electronic monitoring.

[Spiderman]

I too have worked in catering in many shapes and forms and one thing i can say for certain is that ive never let a manager get away with taking tips if he didnt serve the tables at all and absolutely never allowed them to take money that i worked hard for.

however the reverse has been true that i've given away a good deal of their stuff for free to people when ive felt like it. :lol:

One of the perks of being an ice cream man for a while was that if you give a pretty girl a free lolly she wil usually stand there and lick it while you talk to her and sometimes thats payment enough ;)

[drefraser]

When I was in Argentina this year I was told that to get a passport for Uruguay all you needed to do was buy a property there. Flats can be had in Montevideo for $10,000 USD so I'd have thought disappearing should be a doddle. Perhaps Panama is the same ;)

[Warthog]

If your old boss took it out of tips than hes an a-hole as those are tips and i'm sure no one working there signed a contract saying that company losses could be taken from their eanings did they?

What a gay thing to do to let someone take money out your pocket.

:roll:

Wow you make stealing sound so macho.

[redbouy]

Still on the run as it where, now close to 12 years.
Dont have the cash to run back to. duh. Any one can come and go, just give a good story. If your going to run u dont go back and tell everyone that your running.

I have had some captain take a whole 3 weeks tip, he was found out, wages docked by the boss and then fired.

[Razor]

I'm seriously thinking about it... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHF5g2L5Dho)

[northwind]

I know how to get from the mainland UK to a country with no UK extradition treaty without passing through customs or passport control, if that's any use?

[ArtyLady]

Reggie Perrin was great :cool: soooo funny when he came back as Martin Welbourne and married his own wife who didnt recognise him under the beard and wig :lol:

[drefraser]

I know how to get from the mainland UK to a country with no UK extradition treaty without passing through customs or passport control, if that's any use?

Do tell ...

[mac99]

I know how to get from the mainland UK to a country with no UK extradition treaty without passing through customs or passport control, if that's any use?

Channel Islands? Ireland?

Or is this a political joke about special rendition. No passport controls there. :)

[northwind]

As if I'd share my escape route with the whole internet :rolleyes:

[metalmonkey]

..if I ever did decide to do a 'runner', I'd certainly be looking for more than 25k as Mr Darwin and his missus decided on. Serious criminal acts like that would need at least 500k to sit well with the missus..

Haha for me it will be millions and millions before I would even consider doing such a thing, I have far too much lose to just run off anyway! Would you be that happy, if were alone casue everry though you were dead, I mean its not like you can have a beer with your friends is it?

[21QUEST]

As if I'd share my escape route with the whole internet :rolleyes:

PM sent :p ;)



Ben

[Ceri JC]

Would you be that happy, if were alone casue everry though you were dead, I mean its not like you can have a beer with your friends is it?

I dunno, I have a mate who is a fugitive in this country who now lives abroad. I and our other old friends meet up once every couple of years. I even spent NYE with him 2 years back. :)

[gettin2dizzy]

What's he running from ?

[Ceri JC]

What's he running from ?

The law. ;)

Nothing too serious/that affected anyone else. I'd rather not go into the specifics, but I am still friends with him, even though what he did was a bit silly. He is nicely settled now, he just got married a few months back. I don't think he misses Blighty too much, only us.

[plowsie]

I had two blokes try to do a runner when i worked in a Harvester, one of them left, he then came back to pick up his mate off the floor who was lying with a busted lip :D They paid :)

I've ran away from home cos my mum wasnt where she shouda been waiting for me, i did well TBH no-one found me, i walked to the police station cos i was hungry n cold. I was 9 :D

I was classed missing for 7 hours :D

[Spiderman]

Wow you make stealing sound so macho.

Who me? Nah, its not big and its not clever but its all part of my lifes rich tapestry.
I then went on to work as a retail security guard and store detective for a year or so, so i think my karma has balanced itself on that score.

I recently accidentaly stole a pack of socks from M&S. i'd just spent a ooad of money on work shirts etc and just happened to notice this pack of socks in my hand when i got tot he car. I never meant to take it and i never tried to conceal it. So their security is obviously asleep and their alarmed barriers only usefull if all stock is tagged.
Not my fault but there was no wa i was walking all the way back to fess up for that one! :D