Escape game: you're being hunted by the police and must get out of the country
05-20-2019, 10:53 PM
Awesome thread. It's a fun thought exercise. My additions.
The JJ Luna book 'How to be invisible' is full of good information on this type of stuff.
He talks about different 'levels' of preparedness (and therefore inconvenience) one can take commensurate with the level of risk you feel you are at (1 to 5 from memory).
Ideally, you'd pick a few simple things that are not very inconvenient to do beforehand, such as keeping some cash in a fake stash can around the house ready to go (you need to have savings anyway, right?). That would stop all the stress around getting cash out and so forth last minute.
I'd have a pre-prepared USB stick or burnt DVDR with an encrypted / bootable version of Tails. This operating system is amnesic (in that once you power down it forgets everything, no temp files, no trace). It also has MAC address spoofing etc built in. Use this to surf the net - just find an internet cafe or library where you can change the BIOS to boot off USB / CD (most are set to boot off CD anyway).
Both of those things are easy to do right now and not a hassle.
After laying low for a while, you could potentially buy a cheap workman looking van with no side windows (Toyota Hi ace or similar) off Gumtree/Craigslist for cash and use that to get around in and sleep in, although ultimately you'd want to go start a new life in a more basic country.
A high level king pin in Australia (Tony Mokbel) drove from one side of Australia to the other (almost the same size as the US mainland). He had someone drive him while he played a retarted mute in the back seat. The then commissioned a yacht and sailed to Greece in it, where he lived in disguise (wig) for a while, and eventually was busted sitting in a cafe. So yeah, Australia to Greece is possible in a small yacht (although how much financing went behind this).
In the meantime you could read up on some true crime stories of people who have done it such as Shantaram. He was an Aussie heroin addict who was busted doing armed robberies and escaped from one of Australia's more serious prisons to go live in slums in India. He was robbed in India and had to 'start over' again with no ID or money. He ended up living in the slums there, selling weed to tourists and getting involved in Indian organised crime. It's a great read.
The JJ Luna book 'How to be invisible' is full of good information on this type of stuff.
He talks about different 'levels' of preparedness (and therefore inconvenience) one can take commensurate with the level of risk you feel you are at (1 to 5 from memory).
Ideally, you'd pick a few simple things that are not very inconvenient to do beforehand, such as keeping some cash in a fake stash can around the house ready to go (you need to have savings anyway, right?). That would stop all the stress around getting cash out and so forth last minute.
I'd have a pre-prepared USB stick or burnt DVDR with an encrypted / bootable version of Tails. This operating system is amnesic (in that once you power down it forgets everything, no temp files, no trace). It also has MAC address spoofing etc built in. Use this to surf the net - just find an internet cafe or library where you can change the BIOS to boot off USB / CD (most are set to boot off CD anyway).
Both of those things are easy to do right now and not a hassle.
After laying low for a while, you could potentially buy a cheap workman looking van with no side windows (Toyota Hi ace or similar) off Gumtree/Craigslist for cash and use that to get around in and sleep in, although ultimately you'd want to go start a new life in a more basic country.
A high level king pin in Australia (Tony Mokbel) drove from one side of Australia to the other (almost the same size as the US mainland). He had someone drive him while he played a retarted mute in the back seat. The then commissioned a yacht and sailed to Greece in it, where he lived in disguise (wig) for a while, and eventually was busted sitting in a cafe. So yeah, Australia to Greece is possible in a small yacht (although how much financing went behind this).
In the meantime you could read up on some true crime stories of people who have done it such as Shantaram. He was an Aussie heroin addict who was busted doing armed robberies and escaped from one of Australia's more serious prisons to go live in slums in India. He was robbed in India and had to 'start over' again with no ID or money. He ended up living in the slums there, selling weed to tourists and getting involved in Indian organised crime. It's a great read.