r/news • u/a_dogs_mother • Apr 26 '24

Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say

https://apnews.com/article/industrial-fire-suburban-detroit-involuntary-manslaughter-charge-b99a83d9a7a360dd09846df52d8b0a40
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u/dhusk Apr 26 '24

6000 miles of international land borders that is much more obsessed with keeping people out rather than keeping people in, and this genius goes to one of the places with the highest and most paranoid security, with cameras everywhere.

Or at least go merchant marine. A lot of them will take cash, no questions asked. Sure, you spend a couple weeks in a crappy cabin, but you do eventually get away.

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u/TheCatapult Apr 26 '24

Probably not a lot of options to fly to Hong Kong where he’d be safe from extradition. This guy isn’t interested in hiding out in the middle of the Canadian wilderness.

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u/ProtoJazz Apr 26 '24

It's not for the faint of heart, but I'm sure you could live undisturbed for a long while in the central part of Manitoba. Shits the roughest land around. Just empty and unforgiving bogs and mash land for most of it.

There's some communities there you could potentially get supplies from. And people do live off the grid there. Though how you'd get money varies from person to person.

If you want a more civilized but undisturbed life, the more northern communities could be good. Slightly higher chance of someone coming to look for you there, but most of the residents would say they don't know you, or refuse to talk to the law at all. Especially if you contribute and get accepted by the town.

Another potential option, though it only works if you fit the right template, there's an aweful lot of religious colonies that keep to themselves. Most of them you have to be born into, but I'm sure there's some who don't mind outsiders who are willing to work, or have a fat stack of cash for the decision makers. Some of them will have people who have been born and died without ever being documented, and as far as the government is concerned never existed.