“I fought the law and the law won.”

The Bobby Fuller Trio hit tells the truth.

You can run, but sooner or later the Law will catch up with you, unless you protected by the Law, then you don’t have to run and you don’t even have to walk. You can sit where you are and enjoy the good life.

This wasn’t the case for the American woman known in Texas as the Ponytail Bandit. Morgan Michelle Hoke, 21, was apprehended by Thai Immigration Bureau authorities at a Bang Lamphu guesthouse. She had been Thailand since Jan. 20 on a tourist visa. The Texan will be held in Thai custody until extradition to face numerous bank robbery charges in the USA.

Normally in movies US criminals head for Mexico.

Easy to mix with the millions of gringo tourists. 

Instead she and her beau risk a departure via an non-direct international flight to Bangkok with a stop-over in South Korea. Passing through immigration at the airports must have been a heart-thumping experience for the female fugitive.

“What’s the reason for your visit?”

“Pleasure.” works better than ‘running from the law’.

Thailand has become a refuge for many criminals over the last years, who are unaware that the immigration officers are armed with computers linked to Interpol.

Description: A white female, early to mid-20’s, 5’3″ to 5’5″, 110 to 120lbs (thin build), blonde hair, with no visible scars, marks, or tattoos.

Lots of those in Thailand, but it’s a small world after all and she was tracked down by a snitch. That’s how most criminals are caught no matter what the cops say about good police work. The pony tail bandit’s huband remains on the loose.

Options?

Turn yourself in or run for the border, one without a computer and pass over into Cambodia or Laos. Cut your hair. Dye it too. Get glasses. Blend into the backpacking set living on less than $10/day. They robbed three banks. Figure they got $5000 at each. After airfare for two they had about $10K. Blow another five Gs in Bangkok. Girls like to spend money on the run. With $5000 left he could last about a year in Cambodia, maybe more if he goes to a small river town. Always looking over his shoulder, because there’s definitely a reward on his head and it’s probably dead or alive for the local cops.

I’m saving bank robbery for my 70s. I’ll hold-up a bank in Norway. No attempt to flee. Prison in Norway have single rooms for incarceration. Herring twice a day and TV hsowing ski-jumping 24 hours a day. I call it my retirement plan.

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