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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore Gender: Female Total Likes: 19 likes
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 100 on 3/17/2014 2:32 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Two friends and I decided to check out an abandoned incinerator near our city late one night because we were bored and none of us had explored it before. We parked on a nearby street then cut through a path in some backyards to get down to the access road for the plant, covered the perimeter of the plant looking for an entrance, and finally found one. In we went, browsed through the few rooms on the ground floor, and decided to hit the second floor. Friend A went first, I was in the middle, and friend B brought up the rear. I'm not really looking where I'm going and all of a sudden friend A comes to a dead stop mid-way up the stairs, leading me and friend B to bump into him. I looked up and there was a flashing alarm panel that we had tripped while going up the stairs. I've never run down a shaky ass stairwell in the pitch dark faster in my life. We finally made it outside and decided to stick close to the side of the building because of the shadows as we made our way to the edge of the property. We began to hear gravel crunching down the access road and we booked it up a rock-covered hill to hide behind a stone wall since there was literally nowhere else to hide anywhere near the building. On the way over to our hiding spot, friend B got hit in the face with a tree branch and his glasses went flying off his face, but we were scurrying to get well hidden and it was dark, so we didn't have a chance to stop and look for them. We ended up hiding in thorns and rocks behind this reinforcement wall for at least an hour in probably five degree weather, my friend sans glasses, until the cops finally rolled out.
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| puddlejumper12
Location: Rochester, NY Gender: Male Total Likes: 94 likes
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 101 on 3/17/2014 5:04 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I was in a skyscraper construction site all by myself in the middle of the night once, and when I got to the roof and looked down, a cop was hanging out in a parking lot. I freaked out at first, but didn't hear anything across the scanner so I continued like nothing happened. I got down to the 5th floor or so and the cop moved and went right to my entry point, driving about 2mph. I pooped. Luckily, I think he was just bored and doing his patrol, because he just kept creeping down the road and eventually turned out of sight. So, thinking I was set, I decided now was the time to leave. I got down to the second floor and thought, "Eh, I should get a picture of this floor for shits sake, real quick before I leave." So I set up and take the photo quick and then pack everything up well and walk down the stairs to the gutted ground floor. About 3 steps from the ground I look up and see two people talking outside a pick up truck inside the gates I need to go through. I practically fall down trying to scoot back up the stairs out of view. I waited 5 minutes and the truck scampered off, but one of the guys went into the other stairwell and turned on some lights. I came down the last stairs, floated over the debris and past the other stair and then just started full out sprinting to get to my car two blocks over. I'm really glad I stopped to take that photo otherwise the pick up would've pulled up right as I was in the open.
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| UnchartedSights
Location: Commerce City, CO Gender: Male Total Likes: 76 likes
Live hard, live your dream
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 103 on 3/20/2014 2:24 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I know I've posted a story before on this thread but...my last explore ended with a very big "oh shit" moment. Me, my fellow urbex buddy and two of our friends infiltrated the abandoned sugar mill in Longmont, CO. Now I have a lot of exploring experience and am known for being very quiet. My urbex buddy has tactical and security training and one of our friends is ex Marine, so we all know how to get around without being seen or heard. Our 4th member though, could have passed for Andre the Giant and had no exploring experience at all. Well we are all inside the south building(well, I was, I went ahead to find a POE and went in expecting the others to follow, they didn't) and every once in a while I would hear some banging or crashing sounds. I couldn't believe how noisy the others were being. After about 15 minutes on my own, I decided to call my buddy and see where they were. I walked back out between the two buildings and was on the phone with my buddy when a VERY lound "bang, blam, crash!" sounded right behind me. I about crapped myself and my buddy asked what that was. I said I had no clue but it was from right behind me in the north building and I booked it back into the south building. About a minute later, I met up with them at the roof of the south building and we tried to get into the north building. Me, my buddy and our exMC friend got in and we about ran into someone working on that floor. We all attempted to quickly and quietly exfil out the small, sheet metal hole, 3 stories up, that we came in through. Our other friend had stayed behind in the south building so we went to get him and explore the south building. This was very short lived. No sooner did we start to explore again in the second building when we saw a guy in the other building through the windows. We then decided to call it and get out before being seen. As we were walking to the stairs, my buddy stepped on a piece of sheet metal and it gave off a sharp, gunshot like sound. We all froze and then booked it down the stairs and outside(with me stopping to take a couple pics along the way, go figure) and get back to the street. As we were sneaking along the outside of the building, my buddy and exMC friend ran to our hiding spot(where we hid from cars on the road after coming in from the fence) and I was making my way there with our 4th friend. All-of-a-sudden his phone goes off with a blaring music ringtone and I about shit myself. He fumbled and finally turned it off after what seemed like forever, and then he accidentally kicked a metal box causing it to crash over on it's side. At this point I was sure he and I were screwed and going to get caught. Thankfully, we all made it back out through the fence and to our car without any further incident(I got stuck in the fence getting in. My camera strap caught on a link in the fence and I barely got unhooked and prone before a car drove by), but man did we have adrenaline. All the while this was happening, I was thinking about how a fellow urban explorer and contact of mine had gotten caught with his group here,and even though they were only yelled at to "leave or get arrested," I didn't feel like pushing my luck. Check him out if you don't know him, Whithered Percpetion. http://www.flickr....thered_perception/
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| steph yo
Location: PA Gender: Female Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 105 on 4/10/2014 7:32 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Years ago when my friend and I were still new to exploring (therefore pretty stupid) we decided to see if we could get into a certain complex of buildings. Some were active, some abandoned. We found an open window and rigged up a little platform to climb onto in order to reach and crawl through the window. It was a cool building, lots of junk in it, but as we progressed through we realized it had been used recently (there were several rooms that had been some sort of summer or kids camp in the past couple years). Strange, but no one was around at the time so we kept on going. Last door we walked through shut behind us, but I didn't really think much of it as we started looking around the cafeteria/gymnasium we had wandered into which was CLEARLY active. It was clean, machines were buzzing and lights were on. Well shit. We poked around a minute then decided to get out of there but YUP that door that had shut behind us had also locked behind us. SO we started frantically looking for a way out. Windows were locked and stuck. The set of doors across from the door we had come through had a small crack we could look through, and it was looking down a hallway of some medical-type area with people in scrubs and white doctor-coats. There was another door elsewhere we could hear voices through. There was a big door that was probably used for unloading cafeteria stuff off of trucks. It had an alarm-looking box on it, so we decided to bust out the door and book it to the car, which wasn't too far. So after several 1-2-3's and getting scared we finally went for it and... slammed into the door because it was locked too. Didn't help that we barely had cell service in there and it was getting dark, but we eventually got some other friends to climb through our POE and come open the door for us. Lesson learnt, though.
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| DJ Craig Moderator
Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Total Likes: 374 likes
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| | | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 115 on 5/14/2014 11:57 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Maliketh
Location: TN Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 118 on 5/21/2014 2:45 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I definitely had an "oh shit" moment last month. I live pretty close to two abandoned hotels (each pretty good sized, at least 3 stories), and decided to invite my close friend and fellow UE enthusiast to go explore one of them. We decided to pull right into the parking lot and park (yeah, we really should have parked a few blocks away), since we knew that the police patrolled around this hotel, and figured it would be less suspicious if we didn't try to hide the car. Well we get out and start walking around and taking some nice shots of the hotel inside and out. About 30 minutes into our outing, we both see a plain white suv pull slowly around the back of the hotel, where we are standing on the second level. We figure it's one of the people who have been vandalizing the hotel and just book it through the hotel, all the way around to where we parked. My friend peeks out of the doorway we are hiding inside and says to me "Oh shit man, he's got a gun pulled out". So of course we are both like "how the hell are we gonna get by this psycho". Turns out it was just the Chief of police for our town. We walk out after he calls over to us, and start talking with him about what we are doing here, all the standard stuff, you know. He's actually a pretty cool guy, and we just talk for a few minutes, and then go on our way with a warning. Not the best picture, but you can kinda tell how big the place was. There was another main building to the left of this shot, will try to upload more later.
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