“And then they’d have a legit violation to hang you on, so they could haul you back in and enjoy tormenting you at leisure.
You don’t seriously think if they were willing to go this far, that they would just look at each other and shrug if the person were to abscond, do you?”
What have they got me on? Failing to properly discharge myself from a hospital? The guy wasn’t under arrest, he wasn’t charged with a crime, so I don’t know how they could make a charge of fleeing custody stick.
Besides, even if they charge me with something, I would be out of their jurisdiction and they’d have to extradite me. Meaning my lawyer is now involved and fighting them every step of the way. I feel confident I would never get remanded back into their custody once it reached that point.
I’m not so convinced. It seems to me like what they want, they get, rules be damned, and even if they couldn’t get you in PRISON for fleeing custody, they could mess your life and finances up pretty good.
Given a choice between a few days of pain and having the cops hounding me for several years and running me into the poorhouse for the sheer joy of it, I’d prolly just take the pain and get it over with.