it probably buys you lots of time at the least
go down there, be unseen for a while
lay low enough and maybe you never gets fucked with
clean up your act, go further south, find a shaman in the mountains, puke up scorpion/worm booze in dingy toilets overgrown with vines near crumbled walls, bribe your way out of the dirt floor prison and have to wait forever in the broken tile floor and dimly-lit flickering fluorescent light filled lobby, run away with the girl who has the mustache...