I've been following the John and Anne Darwin story on the BBC, a couple who faked the husband's death to collect insurance. The latest article is about what you should and shouldn't do in order to disappear effectively. Apparently CCTV cameras are a big liability, so you need to keep out of public areas, eschew bank cards and memberships -- it's best to live somewhere rural and off-grid. It sounds terribly...inconvenient, but I suppose you'd only really want to live as a fugitive in cases of extreme desperation or cases of having read one to many spy novels.

Yesterday I was talking with a woman who said her father wanted to be "the only man in America to never have been on TV" -- and would duck and pull his jacket over his head whenever he saw a security camera or the like. But then he could never use the ATM, and most of those cameras you can't see. Very very difficult.

LINK | 11:02 AM | TB

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