Poll of the Day > You are an adult. You willingly "go missing". Can you be arrested?

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GreenKnight127
12/07/19 10:48:20 PM
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Weird question.
I can't even begin to explain the inspiration for this topic.
But I actually don't know how this works. Maybe it isn't as dramatic as I'm thinking.
Figure someone here might know more?

If you decide to just pack up and vanish. Leave everything behind. All your friends, family, etc....on a total whim. Out of the blue. Not tell anyone. It seems like you just went missing. Maybe kidnapped or murdered. You are just gone to everyone you know.

And someone decides to file a missing persons report on you. Maybe your parents. Maybe your friends.

Would the cops investigate your disappearance? I'm assuming they would.

What if you just took your own vehicle and they found you in another state because they ran your plates or something? Could the police arrest/detain you? Bring you in for questioning? Not give you a choice in the matter?

I imagine they would they say that you were reported missing. But couldn't you just say you are fine, just sight-seeing, wanted to be left alone, didn't feel compelled or obligated to let anyone know you were leaving?

How does this work?


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Behaviorism
12/07/19 10:58:52 PM
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I don't think anyone could "do" anything so long as you're an adult

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adjl
12/07/19 11:08:11 PM
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It happens more often than you might think, and I don't believe there are usually any legal repercussions for the "runaway." That said, if disappearing means you shirk things like paying your bills or your taxes, you'll run into some problems.

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Cacciato
12/07/19 11:09:07 PM
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This is going better than your pedophile island topic.
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Jen0125
12/07/19 11:15:52 PM
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As long as you aren't evading taxes or anything, no. Why would there be consequences for up and moving?

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GreenKnight127
12/07/19 11:18:29 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
As long as you aren't evading taxes or anything, no. Why would there be consequences for up and moving?

That's how I see it, too.

But I wasn't sure if someone opening a missing person's case on you would change all that. Especially if it was a parent.

Like the cops would be legally obligated to bring you in for questioning at the bare minimum. If they could legally detain you or something.

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MacrossSpecial
12/07/19 11:40:59 PM
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GreenKnight127 posted...
That's how I see it, too.

But I wasn't sure if someone opening a missing person's case on you would change all that. Especially if it was a parent.

Like the cops would be legally obligated to bring you in for questioning at the bare minimum. If they could legally detain you or something.

Nope. If the person has no history of mental incompetence then their parents have no power over them as an adult.

This may vary by state, I just know that in CA parents can't send the police after their adult children for not making contact with them.

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masticatingman
12/07/19 11:50:09 PM
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Family members or friends/neighbors or whatever are entitled to alert the police if you have gone missing out of the blue and it strikes them as odd. Obviously, in their minds, something might have actually happened to you - you could be ill, abducted, dead, etc. And welfare checks can always be done on you which can lead to a variety of events. But in the end, if everything you're doing is above board, no, you won't be arrested, but you will be sought out. Which in today's world honestly makes it more ideal in my mind to tie up any loose ends in your personal life before changing it up drastically. Preferably over a phone conversation so they know it's actually you. At that point, pretty much regardless of your reasoning, if you're free of commitments, people will have to leave you be.

Pre-internet era, yeah, if you were a guy, then seriously nobody would care at all. It would just be assumed you decided to up and move. Used to be a fairly common thing.

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faramir77
12/07/19 11:59:55 PM
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No. If a missing persons report is filed, chances are that the police will find you quite quickly. You can just tell them "I just wanted to get away" and they'll close the case. They will inform those that filed the report that you were found safe but I'm not sure if they would disclose where they found you.

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Zeus
12/08/19 12:34:28 AM
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Maybe if you make it look like you were murdered or kidnapped.

Cacciato posted...
This is going better than your pedophile island topic.

What'd I miss?

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SunWuKung420
12/08/19 12:37:36 AM
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I believe every individual has the right to extract themselves from society.

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WhiskeyDisk
12/08/19 1:28:58 AM
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I Iove that Australia has the concept of "on a walkabout".

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Behaviorism
12/08/19 9:23:14 AM
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masticatingman posted...
Family members or friends/neighbors or whatever are entitled to alert the police if you have gone missing out of the blue and it strikes them as odd. Obviously, in their minds, something might have actually happened to you - you could be ill, abducted, dead, etc. And welfare checks can always be done on you which can lead to a variety of events. But in the end, if everything you're doing is above board, no, you won't be arrested, but you will be sought out. Which in today's world honestly makes it more ideal in my mind to tie up any loose ends in your personal life before changing it up drastically. Preferably over a phone conversation so they know it's actually you. At that point, pretty much regardless of your reasoning, if you're free of commitments, people will have to leave you be.

Pre-internet era, yeah, if you were a guy, then seriously nobody would care at all. It would just be assumed you decided to up and move. Used to be a fairly common thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

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LinkPizza
12/08/19 9:38:07 AM
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They cant do anything, but they will look for you. If found, they will tell the family, but they arent allowed to disclose where. I think they cant even if they tell you to. Though, a cop can personally do that for you if they want

Been watching a bunch of missing people stuff lately...
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Gaawa_chan
12/09/19 2:29:05 AM
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If you falsify your death/kidnapping, maybe.

If you just go missing, no. It's a dick move unless you were in a bad place to begin with, though. And it can be pretty sad when someone does that... only to die in an accident and their family doesn't find out for years and years. I've seen that happen before.

One of my cousins actually did this. I've tried to find him on the internet, but no luck. His mother was a lunatic and I don't know wtf she told him but he absolutely hated his father's side of the family as he got older; I could understand why he would hate his step-mother (she was very cold to him and played favorites between the two boys in the house) but the rest of us... I thought we got along fine. He apparently showed up at my uncle's house some years ago, begged some money off of him, and then vanished again.

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The Popo
12/09/19 2:43:11 AM
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Behaviorism posted...
masticatingman posted...
Family members or friends/neighbors or whatever are entitled to alert the police if you have gone missing out of the blue and it strikes them as odd. Obviously, in their minds, something might have actually happened to you - you could be ill, abducted, dead, etc. And welfare checks can always be done on you which can lead to a variety of events. But in the end, if everything you're doing is above board, no, you won't be arrested, but you will be sought out. Which in today's world honestly makes it more ideal in my mind to tie up any loose ends in your personal life before changing it up drastically. Preferably over a phone conversation so they know it's actually you. At that point, pretty much regardless of your reasoning, if you're free of commitments, people will have to leave you be.

Pre-internet era, yeah, if you were a guy, then seriously nobody would care at all. It would just be assumed you decided to up and move. Used to be a fairly common thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome


This is the definition of a Missing White Woman in the article:

Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The phenomenon is defined as the Western media's undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing women of color, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys.

And then one of the notable examples they provide is Princess Diana. No shit she received media attention, she was probably one of the 5 most famous women in the world when she died. She isnt like the other people on the list who were famous entirely due to them going missing...
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