Doesn't always work even then. Back in the Deckard Days, there were a couple of hippies hitching down 281 outside of Johnson City. One of the notorious local hellraisers and booze aficionados sees them, pulls his truck over. When they got close enough he pulls out his rope, ropes and hogties one of the hippies (while the other runs as fast as a hippie can run) and proceeds to give him a haircut with his pocketknife right there on the side of the highway. Guy gets arrested (once the hippies gave a description of the guy/truck it probably took the sheriff about 1.3 seconds to know who did it), but he was a ranch hand for AW Moursund, LBJ's attorney and a big wheel in the Hill Country. He was asked later how much AW charged him to keep him out of prison, guys answers "about 20 years of hard labor".
