You could have taken a thermo flask and a rubber duck, silly!
I had some assassins come after me but I said that unless they sodded off I'd sign 'em up for thirty porn site mailing lists AND send them SMS spam four times a day!
They went then, but I chucked a cat after them and they went a bit faster.
What also works is pursuing those wee bastads on a pogostick. The sight of you bouncing up and down with a furious expression clutching an umbrella like a lance scares thesh-bejesus outta them