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bandi Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 734 likes
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 20 on 11/22/2012 3:33 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I was trying to explore a long abandoned farmhouse (with my car parked on the dirt road about 1/4 mile away)... this old guy came screaming down in his Crown Vic, and starts screaming at me that he'll have my car towed if I'm planning on checking out that abandoned house. I asked if the house was his and he said he had no idea who owned it, and I asked if the road was his... which, oddly enough, being a public road, it wasn't. After telling him I'd have him charged with theft if he had my car towed from a public place, he calmed down. Also got "caught" at an abandoned convent in Toronto (after repeatedly saying "I smell something cooking) by a homeless guy grilling up some burgers on a propane BBQ in the courtyard. He even offered me lunch! The final one was randomly bumping into a long time "resident" at a popular Toronto location (after noticing a ton of cats, with fresh food in front of them), asking him if he wanted us to leave, and getting a three hour guided tour of the location and a great exhibit of the resident's collection of scrounged items... a very cool experience!
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| Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP. Gender: Male Total Likes: 269 likes
Hypocrite
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 25 on 11/28/2012 3:27 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by MonkeyPunchBaby I was right behind Greg, and heard him when he gasped; "oh shit!"
| Lolz! I've had a few good ones... -Came out of a manhole once, and was standing next to it trying to figure out where I was, when a security guard from a neighboring building walked up. He asked what I was doing and I'm like "Oh, just exploring the sewer, I'm not robbing your building or anything. What street is this?" He told me what street it was and I thanked him, went back down, and shut the lid. -On another occasion I had my head and shoulders out of a manhole in a parking lot, trying to acquire a GPS signal. A woman turns the corner to get in her car and spots me next to it. She yelled "You scared the shit out of me!" I asked her "Hey, are we in <city 10 miles away> yet?" and the rest of the group in the shaft below me bursts out laughing. -Came out of a drain on the river and a guy fishing from a boat spots us. He drives over and yells "Did you just come out of that culvert?" Like a smartass I reply "Maaaaybe". He proceeds to tail us from the river as we walk back along the shore, calling the cops on his cell phone (we managed to evade them). -A hobo downtown approached us while we were popping manholes looking for a tunnel. He introduced himself as Willie Nelson (and showed us an ID backing it up!). We told him we lived in the sewer and all we had was sewer money, and he left -And of course there's the usual cop encounters where the first thing you're asked is "Are you guys Action Squad?". One time the cops caught us on the way into a cave party where we were carrying amps, instruments, projector screens, beer, tuxedos, etc. After asking if we were in Action Squad and running our IDs, they were like "Well, we got a call about teenagers bringing booze underground, but you look like you know what you're doing. Are those caves pretty cool?" (we ended up relocating the party).
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| Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP. Gender: Male Total Likes: 269 likes
Hypocrite
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 33 on 12/5/2012 5:33 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Ha, that reminded me of another time we ran into somebody... I think there were five of us, we had just snuck up to an old mill, located an entrance, and gotten everyone inside without being seen. As the last guy squeezed inside and stood up, all six of us were standing there about to head deeper inside... Wait a minute... six? We turn to the new guy who's just standing with our group, wearing the same kind of headlamp and generally blending in with us. Us: "Uh... hi, are you an explorer?" Guy: "Nope" Us: "Are you security? Should we leave now" Guy: "Nah, I'm just scrapping the place" Us: "Oh, ok, do you care if we look around?" Guy: "Go for it, I'll be over there stealing copper"
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| crows
Location: Eastern Iowa Total Likes: 89 likes
Il est interdit de faire smashy smash
| | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 36 on 12/16/2012 8:04 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This summer, Thief and our friend Squeem and I were trekkin' through the wilds of corn-infested Nebraska looking for abandonments and Other Weird Shit. We'd just finished taking a bunch of pictures of an old church and schoolhouse a hair west of Lincoln that I think are fairly well known (my reading indicates that the buildings were moved to the edge of that field as a roadside attraction, but I could be wrong about that. Mah research skillz, let me so you them! /lazy hands) Small aside here. I'd driven the car in a ways and parked (there was an old lot there from what the property used to be), and we traipsed around in the field for a while, took a bunch of pictures, wandered the rest of the property, and were thinking about coming back to do some in-character photoshoot stuff for another project. But when we went to leave someone had tied the rope across the entry behind us? It was very strange. Nobody came looking for us, and if you'd have walked back there you could have heard us easily if not seen us and told us to leave, and I can't imagine that whoever did that did NOT see my car there cause it wasn't real hidden, but whatevs. We re-tied it when we left and didn't end up making it back before the light died. /boring story ANYWAY so my car starts making a weird noise and we duck off the highway at the next exit to make sure I haven't lost a tire or the engine or something (we hadn't). Right off the exit, we look over and there's a big sign that says A DREAM DIED HERE with what looked like crappy buildings behind it. Needless to say, the three of us sang a unison WHAAAAAT, checked out the car at the Sinclair right there, and got out to walk up the shoulder and figure out WTF that shit was. So we're gawking from the side of the road at this... really odd looking collection of weird ramshackle old buildings when this old man comes out of the very functional and obviously inhabited modern house on the other side of the drive-way (which is what stopped us just marching in there). My intrepid self, after some less-than-intrepid waffling because as stated elsewhere at least once on this forum I don't really like people very much, marches up and asks him what all that over there is. He in turn gives us a length tour of this... weird little historical re-creation of things that he built over the years with his grand kids, including a mud house that he said was built with traditional Native American methods from the area (I have no idea how accurate this is, but it was super neat, and a good 15-20 degrees cooler than the July heat outside!! This summer was DUMB in the midwest!). He had a chuckle about how it took a group of natives travelling in the area maybe a week or two tops to put one of these things together and it took him and his sproglets 6 months or something. I guess kids from the town used to come out all the time, do graduation photos there, and he was happy to teach them about the history, which seemed to be his entire purpose in having put this together. To preserve some of the local stories and background. He also showed us his garage full of milk mustache pictures because evidently he was in one of those 'got milk' ads back in the day a while. The sign was a ways off from the other stuff, and he didn't specifically point it out, and we didn't end up asking him about it. So I have no idea if it was part of it, or a statement to passers-by; I did get the feeling that he might have been starting to feel edged out, because he did say we were lucky to have stopped when we did because 'in a few years it might all be gone', what with people wanting to develop and such.
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| AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC Gender: Male Total Likes: 49 likes
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | | Re: Hilarious moments when you're spotted? < Reply # 37 on 12/16/2012 8:55 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Astro He walked away saying "I am going to tell everyone I found a naked ghost!"
| Good times, eh? I've been 'caught' periodically. I suppose I can't help but go in the wrong order. With DJCraig, my girlfriend, and two other UER regulars we encountered eight sketchy folk from out-of-state. Specifically, we had spread across a mill building. I was about to head upstairs away from my girlfriend and saw several people in the next room. Whenever you meet people, it's good to 'win' that first encounter and make sure they will treat you right (No muggings, no calling cops). So I turn off my light and walk towards them. Camera and tripod slung across my chest, I come out of a dim doorway and say "Hi, I'm Kris. What's up?" They were there to tag shit, but at least they didn't mess with us...until they decided that we must have locked their car inside the front gate. Emerging from a campus drain manhole with about half a dozen others, I was asked, "Are you guys the ninja turtles?" by a very-stoned college kid. "Watch out for dem crock-oh-dials," said the black man on the walking bridge outside a drain outfall. "After you," I say, trying to urge the security guard past the stairwell window where she could see our man climbing up the outside. No dice...but it gave him time to get down his rope. "I know you guys were up to no good, but I have nothing to charge you with. Go on home and never come back to Kenly," said the cop after interviewing all three of us (Separately and together) in a small town. Thank goodness he didn't check my other bag that had my first aid kit...and twenty feet of rope. "Hey! What are you doing on this property? You didn't have no damn key, the gate was locked, so what the hell are you doing here? I'm gonna call the cops!" Later he called the cops because he saw us again. We regrouped using a terrible mix of fuck-what's-the-number-of-the-guy-driving-the-van and satellite maps. "So. I guess you guys heard about this place on the internet?" --Cop at some over-traveled hospital in PA. Of note was "Well we have to take your cameras in as evidence. You can get them back in a year." Ah, jokes from cops. Much better than the alternative. "Stand still. Put your hands out. We are going to search your pack. Which pocket is your ID in?" Apparently someone on the streets on New Year's Eve thought I was a sniper, so each police force in Raleigh sent a detachment from me. Thank goodness I didn't climb that crane, after all! "Hey, are you cops? No? Okay." Old black scrapper. "Shit, cops!" Guys I never saw. Sounded like they outnumbered us too. (Shit. There's four of them and a big damn dog. What do we do? Play it cool.) "We're going to have to ask you to leave. This way please." Cossette, Box, and Aurelie were there for this especially amusing time that two contractors escorted us and Nitro off a factory. I guess I kinda morphed into all the times I got caught. Somehow I haven't been arrested yet, just detained.
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