I've found a drawback to living in California.

[gridlore]

Do you have any idea how hard it would be for me to go on a three state crime spree? Hell, the closest state line is a five or six hour drive away! All the drama is lost if you have to keep stopping for gas!

I could go on a five-county crime spree, but it just doesn't have the same glamor, y'know?

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[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

But, but... you drive a truck! And (AFAIK), you're good with guns! That's GTA San Andreas right there!

[mdlbear]

So... you start by holding up gas stations and stealing cars.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the CA, OR and NV corner?

Near Burning Man?

Crime sprees in SF are very Dirty Harry though.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Suppose you take over a high rise in San Jose and no one can find their way to it?
I know, fly into NJ and then go nuts! Oh, no one would notice? They are already nuts over there?
Shucks there just is nothing fun we can do any more. :(

I was going to say just be glad you don't live in Canada...

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

...but then I realized that the Maritime provinces aren't that big. If you started in PEI and cut your fuse long you could bomb Green Gables and accomplish both arson (of a literary monument/tourist trap) and mass murder (of the hordes of Japanese tourists visiting it) and be over the causeway and into Nova Scotia before anybody knew.

The problem, of course, is that Nova Scotia just really doesn't lend itself to spectacularly heinous crimes of a novel, Faux News-worthy nature. Throwing Ashley MacIsaac to the moose springs to mind, but who outside of the East Coast music scene has ever heard of him? And where do you go for the next province? New Brunswick? Newfoundland?

Just be glad you don't live in Canada, OK? It's a country where both geography and culture conspire against the aspiring tabloid oddity.

Re: I was going to say just be glad you don't live in Canada...

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Throwing Ashley MacIsaac to the moose springs to mind

That's not a crime so much as it's a mercy killing. Mercy for everyone else, I mean.

[polydad.livejournal.com]

There are two locations in CA where it'd work: At the NE corner, and at the northern end of the squiggly N-S edge of the eastern border that's roughly NE of San Diego.

best,

Joel. Geography semi-buff and reflexive problem-solver.

How about a two-state, one other country?

[kath8562.livejournal.com]

well, if you hit the southernmost corner where California and Arizona meet, you'd have two states, and you could haul ass over the border into Mexico, pull a heist there and disappear....