Have you ever dreamed or day-dreamed about being a fugitive/on the run?

[Spectrum_Prez]

This is probably one of my most frequently recurring dreams: trying to escape from police or generic badguys, jumping walls and running through crowds. It's also something I've given a lot of thought to when day-dreaming, and there are a lot of problems to figure out.

For example:
How do you get money?
How do you get shelter without using ID?
How do you escape police cameras (especially in area with high concentrations of CCTV like London where I live)?
How do you get out of the country if you need to?

So I was wondering if any of you guys have had similar dreams or day-dreams. I would expect it to be fairly common. Also, what other problems have you identified, how would you tackle them?

Additionally, since this is a gaming forum afterall, wouldn't it be cool if someone made a game based solely on this premise? Like, a complicated, highly-accurate version of GTA's lower-you-wanted-level minigame.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

What do you mean dreamed? I'm living it! And the cops don't know a damn thing! Mwahahahahahah....wait...what? No officer I was jus- Suspect had been apprehended.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

What do you mean day dreamed...

Think everyone has actually, we should all make such plans too... who knows when we might be framed by a one armed man?

 

[Xanadeas]

Hm... I suppose the closest thing I've got is dreaming/fantasizing about ending the world. That's similar right? ...Right? Hey... where you guys going? Why are you running away? Guys?

 

[Kollega]

I do not think i ever did. Not the kind of thing i fantazize about. Guess i'll just have to wing it in case- OHSHIT! Sorry, gotta run! Enemy is at the gate - and he does not look happy!

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Yeahh..............i've 'dreamed' about it (runs off into sunset to commit shady activites)

 

[A Raging Emo]

What do you mean on the run? I'm livi... GODDAMN NINJAS!

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I have daydreams about damn near everything. So yes, however, I am somewhat more capable in the daydream. For instance, snake like stealth and combat skills, and occasionally a superpower or two... it makes everything more fun.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Simple

Skip to a different state (or to Scotland if you're in England, like me) and merge into the homeless, the unregistered, unknown masses with no details and homes to tie them down to the system

 

[cheese_wizington]

I always have day dreams of me being badass.

My favorite is the kids from the city across the city attacking our school. It usually starts in first hour, when suddenly a wall explodes from a tank. And all of the desks transform into our personal loadouts and.....

 

[awsome117]

Yah, some what a lot.

The weird thing is I run with my eyes closed, and yet I can still see.

I usually get away by just being badass.

 

[JDviewer]

I sometimes wonder what it would be like. I imagine that it would be a little like in the Bourne trilogy with Matt Damon. He makes it look very easy.

Also, I wouldn't update my Facebook page while on the run. That would be stupid...

 

[Soviet Heavy]

on the run from zombies, on the run from the governator. Yeah I get a lot of these dreams.

One of the more interesting ones happens when I am being chased along a dried up canal by a patrol train that is out to get me. I try to hid in the little outbuildings along the side of the canal, but they are always filled up with other fugitives. So I have to keep running.

Oh, and there was the one time when I was being chased through my town by the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.

 

[Disaster Button]

I dreamed that my day dreams were connecting me to another persons day dream in a weird alternate reality style and we both had to escape evil people who had infiltrated our fantasy world and lots of fun ensued. I day dream a lot.

 

[Monocle Man]

My day-dreams consist of being manly and facing the legions that are hunting me.
I shrug of the wounds caused by my enemies' bullets, do not stop when my arm is torn off by a grenade shell and walk up to them so I can tear the evildoers apart with my bare hand(s), I may grow back a new arm in the process.
I escape from ignorant law enforcements by vanishing in thin air or flying away.

I did once dream of being on safari to hunt lions and antelopes with my class, however. I sneaked out at night in a stealth suit and shot a hunter instead of a lion. Unfortunately the hunter's chum had the same night/heat/origin-of-bullet-vision lenses they have in every video game and started shooting at me with his rifle that shot darts. I got hit in the leg but was able to escape.
Then, in the morning at the house my class was staying, we were going to eat big antelope hams for breakfast and I had to hide the evidence. The evidence was nothing more than a black rubber band and a mysterious person said I had to slip it into someone's pocket to put the blame on him.
I lost the rubber band.

 

[Daverson]

Q: How do you get money?
A: Counter-Question: Why do you need money? Think about it, there's nowhere you're going to be able to get it legally (maybe questionably legal) or spend it safely, so why not cut out the middleman and just take what you need.

Q: How do you get shelter without using ID?
A: Particularly in towns such as London there are countless abandoned buildings, some even in a good degree of repair. Then there's the sewer system and whatnot, not as safe, but you're a fugitive! Danger's all part of the fun!

Q: How do you escape police cameras (especially in area with high concentrations of CCTV like London where I live)?
A: Hood (or your choice of hat) and scarf. If you're into high-tech mcguffin's there's a modification that can be performed on any head-ware of your choice that saturates the feed on cameras, causing your face to appear as a bright light. I doubt it's 100% effective though.

Q: How do you get out of the country if you need to?
A: Seriously? You cross the border. It isn't that difficult. Unless we're talking about nations such as Israel who get off on building massive walls, it's not that difficult. In the event you live in the UK or Northern USA/Canada, where there's an ocean in the way, either cross it in a ship in the case of the channel (a ferry can easily be boarded covertly, or if you're feeling particularly ballsey a rubber dingy or Tube Ducky... has anyone crossed the channel in a tube ducky? Because being the first to do it would be AWESOME), or in the case of the Bering Strait, just wait until it freezes and cross it)

Hide somewhere people won't be looking for you. The more dangerous the better. My personal suggestions would be Pripyat or Mogadishu, but I'm kinda insane like that.