After the London Games, a number of stories surfaced in the media about athletes from other countries absconding from the Olympic village.
However, managing without the rest is a heavy price for absconding.
Well, this Alice character delves into the murky world of underage sex, drug abuse, rape and absconding.
He had been so he said a card-sharp and a safe-cracker, had sold insurance and had run a hockey team, the Butte Bombers, before apparently absconding with the money from their biggest game.
If it is going to provide workers with expensive training, it will very likely want to give them permanent jobs as well, if only to discourage them from absconding to competitors.
This month has seen a series of high-profile defections: football players absconding at an away match in Tanzania; medical workers seeking refuge in Sudan; naval ratings escaping to Yemen.
In fact the number of inmates escaping and absconding has plunged, even as more people are locked up (see chart).
In August he departed of his own accord, absconding with sheaves of sensitive documents, with which he continued to blackmail various criminals.
Mark Keary, principal of Bethnal Green Academy in east London, said police spoke to the girls after another student disappeared in December and indicated at the time that there was no evidence that they were at risk of being radicalised or absconding.
But in 1995, a former business partner floated Joan Rivers Worldwide Inc on the stock market without her prior knowledge, before absconding with $37m.
Mr Tam told the court it was "fanciful" to suggest Qatada does "not pose any risk of absconding" and added he had an ability to "go to ground" and in the past had "gone out of sight for almost a year".
