Aibu to audition for hunted when I have a 3 year old and 8 month old?

[cultkid]

Do you think it's unfair on the children to leave them

Definitely rules in place, otherwise I'd buy 10+ cheapy phones and a load of pay as you go sims, send them to anyone I might need to contact with a note explaining and telling them to burn note afterwards, and keep a couple of the phones and sims myself

Make sure if you are ever with anyone that they turn their phone off - classic mistake

Only have conversations in person or by letter (to be burned) beforehand with any plans, maybe do some emails/texts/calls that are false to throw them off

Still enjoy the programme, the rules have to be in place otherwise there would be no leads, everyone would win and the hunters would be sitting round doing nothing.

I think people get annoyed when they make "mistakes" like an accomplice having their phone on when they drive them somewhere, but I think it's part of the rules. Maybe they should mention the rules on the first episode, so you can see them trying their best to work around the rules

Why don't people of hunted use WhatsApp instead of traceable phone calls?

Not allowed, I imagine. Like lots of the other ridiculous limitations built in, but not mentioned. I agree, @TellMe -- I would prefer the programme if they were entirely upfront about the rules, but presumably they want us to think the contestants are making rookie errors and the crew of 'hunters' at the base are all cunning and dangerous. And yes, I do wish the hunters would stop behaving as though they were on the trail of the Manson family all the time.

At least in my favourite ropey 1980s never-recommissioned show, The Interceptor, it was over the top enough (villain in black leather pursuing contestants cross-country in a series of black helicopters, sportscars and motorbikes to zap their backpacks of money) to be obvious that it was all (wildly over-)acted.

There are CCTV cameras all over the place where I live, I keep finding more, they're multiplying like rabbits. There's no chance of sneaking back home to hide out.

Ooooh, I met a guy yesterday who was celebrating his 70th birthday who is going to apply! Go for it, I say! We MNetters will hide you!!

@BoudoirPink - The Interceptor!! YES! I'd forgotten about that programme! It was great, wasn't it? Better than watching Annika's (sp?) backside for 60 minutes!

It was so awful, it was kind of fabulous. They seemed to have selected the contestants for peak meeping helplessness, and the guy who played the Interceptor was chewing the scenery, somersaulting over gates and making these demented sort of bird of prey noises, with Annabel Croft chirping haplessly 'Can you see the Interceptor?' via a radio in the background.

I only happened to see it when it was broadcast because I had a babysitting job and that was the baby's naptime, and I was disgusted it never got recommissioned after that one series!

I have a whole Hunted strategy, involving dead drops of supplies and burner phones, dead email addresses... Or popping to France in the boot of a car!

Yes, wait until they are much older.

@BoudoirPink and @fairydustandpixies Summer of 1989 the Interceptor was my favourite TV show. OMG I lived for it. A very big game of hide and seek is always very thrilling. The Interceptor would have banter with the helicopter pilot who called him Boss a bit sarcastically.

Hunted is a reasonable replacement though as the HQ people are so very serious.

Two years back I had an old work colleague contact me out of the blue via email, then in the next series there she was! I'm sure she was scoping me out as a distant accomplice she could maybe use. She actually got caught straight away! Doh!

Yes do it! We can all help on here and hope they cant track you Haha. Just finished watching the heist which was amazing

@Parky04
Someone I know is on the current series and they win!

I'd be interested to know what your friend says about the rules they have to abide by because this:

@Sexykitten2005
I think you have to make contact with your family, draw cash out and visit your home location. Theres quite tight rules, if I remember correctly you also have to change locations every two days and you can’t draw all your money out in one go. It’s designed to stop people just wild camping and then heading to the extraction point.

and this

We’re clearly supposed to overlook the fact that the contestants have a cameraman jogging alongside while they try to look anonymous in central Manchester.

Means you are basically being set up to fail or at least the odds are hugely stacked in favour of the finders rather than the hunted.

The first thing you need to do is plan a trip to a public toilet where you can change your clothes, bunge on a wig and get out via a window or another exit, and head to a very crowded area so you can't be tracked easily via a helicopter/thermal heat. Give the camera man the slip basically. But I guess that isn't allowed.

It's a dumb premise but I suppose unless people had their own cameras to film themselves, it wouldn't be much of a programme.

"Sarah has disappeared and er.. we have no footage of her for two weeks"

The rules for hunted basically prevent about 99% of all viable strategies, and basically mandate the contestents into doing stupid things. They are forced to behave in certain ways, to communicate with the hunters etc.

Who wins is down to the producers and nothing to do with the contestants.

Do it.

Am literally staring out of my bedroom window as I type, planning how I would escape from my back garden to evade hunters. I think I'd jump over next door's fence and head for the hill behind my house, there are loads of old concrete sniper huts from WW2 there (I live by the coast).

Am I the only person who can’t stand this program? I want to like it, I really do but it’s so far fetched it’s unreal.

The hunters destroy it, really. It's all so fake and nothing but stooges, too. If I had some random, not the police, no warrant, knock on my door and demand to be let in because they thought someone was there or had been there I'd like like a drain before telling them to get to fuck. How they keep a straight face, I don't know.

Probably don't even win, just get paid as per their contract through their agent as they are all stooges.

I'd be happy to provide a base to anyone doing it - Midlands! Can happily turn off phones! I'd love to do it, but definitely not fit enough!

I'm not fit enough but maybe being on the run would make me fit?!

Apparently (in real life) when people go on the run or hide, some ridiculously high % of people go to a place they are familiar with, have been to before or have lived before or have a connection with.

The best thing to do (if you are ever for real criminally on the run!) is to just stick a pin in a map and go somewhere you have never been, don't know anyone and have no connection with.

Disappointed to hear that doing stupid things is in the rules. I've always rather fancied my chances on this show. The Mumsnet network would be great. You could arrange it a long way in advance on the 30 days only bit, so that the thread disappeared, then everyone name change, and the OP open a new MN account to exchange addresses etc by private message. You could also have a live decoy thread running. Or loads of them - a sort of 'I'm Spartacus' of Hunted! And code threads - if someone starts a thread about Naice Ham, and mentions Pom Bears, it means the OP will be climbing over your garden wall in Watford at some point in the next 24 hours.

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Omg I didn't know anyone replied to me

I will use several burner Mumsnet accounts for help 🖤

Imagine

YANA @cultkid - I would totally hide you in my lean-to

It's a dumb premise but I suppose unless people had their own cameras to film themselves, it wouldn't be much of a programme.

"Sarah has disappeared and er.. we have no footage of her for two weeks"

But even if Sarah plays by the rules and takes the cameraman with her as she leaps a fence and disappears athletically up a mountain into a cave, or whatever -- does she then have to feed him for days? Or does she have to pretend he's not there?

So many questions!

I'm small as well on 5ft 1 so I can fit in anyone's under stairs cupboard or footwell 😂

I want to do it so bad
I've been really sick for years and now I'm so much healthier it would be an amazing opportunity

Exact same reasons @cultkid - I've had a year of awful health, an op and desperately want to show people I CAN