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.
“even if they couldn’t get you in PRISON for fleeing custody, they could mess your life and finances up pretty good”
These are small town cops we’re talking about here, not the Feds. They can’t do crap to me unless I stray back into their little fiefdom.