My tech unsaavy friends that love the new cbs show hunted

[JoeTech]

Just a quick little rant about here. I don't know how many of you watch or have heard of the new cbs show Hunted. It is where they pick 19 teams of average people to try and run from top law enforcement officials for 28 days. I don't know how "real" it actually is, but it is fun but frustrating at the same time to watch.

The frustrating part is watching the first thing they do is call there close relatives for help and it seems like all the social media profiles are set to public as well giving away everything. As far as watching it with my friends they ask me if this is all possible and I tell them law enforcement can do so much more then what is on the show. You think they are finally getting to understand what you have been telling them for a long time. Then they shrug there shoulders and say "It's a tv show not real life and go back to being clueless about surveillance powers like they don't exist.

 

[Krynn72]

I watched the premier as well, a good show. I likes how stupid the rich couple was, using an ATM at the bus station they left from lol.

But the people I have talked to who have also watched the show were pretty tech savy, so they all knew this was possible. My mom watched it and shes a huge fan of shows like "The First 48" and other real life crime solving shows so shes known a lot of this for awhile. I think that black lady and her friend had the right idea, just camping out in the woods haha. If I ever had to go on the run, I'd just become a hermit out in the woods. The only place you can escape the law is where there is no technology.

 

[JoeTech]

Yeah that couple had the right idea camping out in the woods and even the cops said it was the best plan but they couldn't take it any longer. For me 28 days in the woods for 250k is not that long. Of course that is why they wouldn't cast me on the show because I would become a hermit like you said as well and that would just be too boring for tv.

In the 2nd episode I like the part where they think they hear a drone so instead of being smart and running back into the woods they run out into the middle of the road where they are in plain sight and I thought for sure the cops suv would bust them right there.

 

[GTP]

Are we under surveillance???? Lol

 

[Altster]

Are we under surveillance???? Lol

Constantly!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

My wife watched it for around 20 minutes the other night, I watched parts of it on 'n off as I was working on my laptop.
I'm not 100% against these "reality shows"...while I hate things like katrashians, I enjoy Naked 'n Afraid, and Survivor.

But this show, parts I saw, the runners were at some house, camera crew there filming it. The chase team was at the entrace to the driveway, and the fleeing couple was like "do they know we're here?" They start running out the back door, camera crew obviously right behind them since they were filming them running. And it's a yard...a yard at a house, and they're wondering if the chase crew sees them. Fast forward like 5 minutes and they had gotten on a quad runner, pulled behind some very thin small bushes...camera crew standing all around them cuz..you see this on TV, and they're looking at the chase crew wondering if they were seen.

I'm like..."I could see a freaking cat hiding behind that scrawny bush...you act like the chase team can't see you, your hubby, the quad runner (that they'd have heard running to pull up to it), and a camera crew of several people all standing around you behind that 3 foot bush?""

And I recall looking up and shaking my head at the dumb comments coming from the team at the command center...about social media 'n stuff. I just shook my head at the "dumb factor".

Yeah..I'd rather watch 10 hours of Nyan Cat...or at least multiple reruns of Machete.

 

[LedHed]

I watched a little bit of it. I'm not sure if this would work because it would require a third party to participate but, here is what I thought I would do in that situation.
1. Install TOR on my laptop
2. Install Threema on my cell and on the cells of my friends and family
3. Seek shelter in a Catholic Church and tell the priest that I will be able to make a generous donation in 28 days.

Thoughts?

 

[JoeTech]

It does make the show feel fake when you have to suspend reality and think the hunters wouldn't see the camera crew when chasing someone. I guess one of the points they are trying to show is how easy it is to narrow down a person's location so precisely by the technology they use that having a camera crew along doesn't make a difference once they are close enough.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm like..."I could see a freaking cat hiding behind that scrawny bush...you act like the chase team can't see you, your hubby, the quad runner (that they'd have heard running to pull up to it), and a camera crew of several people all standing around you behind that 3 foot bush?"

Ah, I only saw the first episode, and wondered how they'd handle this. Was hoping they'd just be realistic and just say "there they are!" even if they just saw the camera crew. I mean, if they're that close already then the people are pretty much caught anyways, and its way better than just pretending you don't see the crew.

 

[freedomit]

Really good show, we have had 2 series in the UK. Some of it is simulated as the hunters don't have full access to ANPR but it's still a very good show. Towards the end of the show they are given an exit point they have to get to, normally a boat or airfield so they can't just hide for the entire 28 days.

The winners normally buy a bike, change appearance several times and move around a lot. The problems come when the hunters start putting our radio and newspaper adverts with rewards for information.

 

[Movax]

I always wondered about the crew with Mantracker too. I loved that show, but how does the crew not leave footprints, or have their equipment reflect light?

 

[Krynn72]

But this show, parts I saw, the runners were at some house, camera crew there filming it. The chase team was at the entrace to the driveway, and the fleeing couple was like "do they know we're here?" They start running out the back door, camera crew obviously right behind them since they were filming them running. And it's a yard...a yard at a house, and they're wondering if the chase crew sees them. Fast forward like 5 minutes and they had gotten on a quad runner, pulled behind some very thin small bushes...camera crew standing all around them cuz..you see this on TV, and they're looking at the chase crew wondering if they were seen.

Just watched the episode and it didn't really play out like that lol. Renewed my faith in the show. For one, they did get seen and caught in the bushes. Ended their chase and they lost the whole thing.

But really the house was far back, probably 200ft or more back from where the chase team stopped. In between them was dense trees and bushes, and the house was up on a hill, so with the 'horizon' 10 feet above their heads, running out the back would be easy without getting seen. I took a screencap of their friend talking to the Hunters, the running couple is in that white guest house waaaay back in the top left of the pic.

The guy on the ATV was their friend who went to talk to the chase team, and he was out looking for them to give them the info he got. The friend is the one who caught the chase teams' eye and lead them straight to the runners. This is what they saw while driving like 30mph down the road which led to the people getting caught. I'm pretty sure this is their friend too.

I'm back to liking the show a lot. Probably the only "reality" tv show I've ever liked because its realistic and not full of pumped up characters. Just real people trying to catch real people. Very cool seeing the strategies people are trying to use. Some go into the wilderness, some come up with a communications code by mailing letters and having people save draft emails in a single account, one guy is creating diversions like sending his friend out to rent a car in his name, etc.

 

[JoeTech]

I never noticed before that the couple you just posted pictures of @Krynn72 went into the woods lasted 15 days off the grid but then decided it was too rough so they called a friend & were busted 3 days later. If they just would have held out 13 more days In the woods they could have won.

I bet they are saving the best teams for last so I'm interested in seeing what those people do. The decoy car rental didn't make the feds too happy!

 

[Altster]

This show (as it was conceived / written) IS a farce. Sure there is a camera crew with them and that's all that the hunters need to keep track of. So what does that prove? Nothing.

If I had conceived this, I would have given each "runner / runners" a non-trackable video camera and set them free to try and disappear. Then the show would be much more interesting (believable?) If in that given amount of time for the runners to do their thing they are not found then they would turn themselves back in or contact the "hunters" and come back to a pre-determined location.

 

[ITtechguy]

I always wondered about the crew with Mantracker too. I loved that show, but how does the crew not leave footprints, or have their equipment reflect light?

A buddy of mine was on that show and he said it was completely rigged. They had to go up and down the same hill more than once to get the camera angles. They were slowed down significantly by the crew and could have won if it weren't for the "do it for TV" aspect.