# Here's a million bucks. Now disappear.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173 "2016-01-04T18:46:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173/61 "2016-01-06T00:03:49Z")

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I’d just hire the Robert Forster character from _Breaking Bad_ to set up a new identity for me. He’d take care of all the details while I relax and watch TV in the basement of his vacuum cleaner repair shop.

People like that really exist, right?

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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173/62 "2016-01-06T00:56:53Z")

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Thailand. Winters in Chang Mai; summers in Ko Samui.

Hire guards to protect you. Don’t worry about a fake ID.

A million dollars can go a long way there.

And have you seen the girls there?

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173/63 "2016-01-06T04:39:49Z")

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> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> Hire guards to protect you.

If people are actively looking for you, I would think that the lower profile you have, the better.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-million-bucks-now-disappear/742173/64 "2016-01-06T10:56:30Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Neither the _whaaaaaat_?
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> And isn’t 100,000 C notes $10 million anyway?

> [@Riemann](#):
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> You’re just stubbornly fighting the hypothetical.

Sounds to me like the hypothetical’s fighting its own self.

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> Next you’ll be suggesting that you can but _anybody_ off.

But…but…but…😉

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