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DescentOnARope
Location: Long Island, New York Gender: Male Total Likes: 662 likes
| | | Leaving warnings < on 2/3/2015 3:46 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | During an explore late last year, my group and I came across some hazards at a well-known site. Obviously such things are to be expected in this hobby, but the specific circumstances of one in particular raised some concern. As I said, this site is common knowledge, and relatively safe. On this day, however, we were exploring a group of buildings on the site that don't seem to be as well-known, as they're behind a large building that blocks the view of them. My group only realized they were there on Google Earth. Anyway, unlike the rest of the site, these buildings are almost completely untouched by vandals, but in much worse general disrepair. This is what worried me most: deathtrap by dizzle229, on Flickr It may not look like much, but there's a large piece of plywood directly in front of it. Anyone not paying attention might easily round the corner and have a bad time, in a place where just such a person might come through. For a while we debated marking it somehow, but in the end we just left it as "if they're not paying attention, it's their problem." We moved the plywood so it would be somewhat more obvious, but that's it. Still, it raised some questions I hadn't really thought of before now. Have you left warnings? If so, how? Should warnings be left, or does it detract from the experience of exploring? Have you come across any warnings?
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| Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory! Gender: Male Total Likes: 565 likes
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| | | | Re: Leaving warnings < Reply # 7 on 2/4/2015 5:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Darendor
Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy Gender: Male Total Likes: 89 likes
| | | Re: Leaving warnings < Reply # 8 on 2/4/2015 6:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The building that I and my friend have been to on several occasions now was somewhat "vandalized" with thermal paper strewn all over and a little bit of grafetti and a couple of holes in walls. We decided to "clean up" the thermal paper, and I left a single piece dangling in plain view. On it I wrote, "Exploring is cool, vandalism not so much." On our return visit yesterday, we found the place had been re-entered, and my "warning" had been neatly moved over a couple of inches but otherwise left intact. Weird.
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| freeside
Location: Northern California Gender: Male Total Likes: 270 likes
eh vigo!
| | | Re: Leaving warnings < Reply # 17 on 2/8/2015 8:22 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Don't go around painting, writing or otherwise marking up the places you go whether it's for warnings to others or whatever. This is a dangerous hobby, we all know this. If someone is in a rotting building and isn't testing every step they take, shame on them, a warning on the wall won't help this person anyway. Bad air in the underground might be an exception, just maybe, depending on where it is, how many people go there, etc. But then you never know who wrote it, how long ago, what's changed etc. Do you heed the warning and turn back? I'm very against writing warnings anywhere, but especially in active infrastructure. If some noob wanders into a drain/sewer or somewhere else and thinks, oh, it stinks, must be bad air and then proceeds to write "bad air" on the wall, this is stupidity. That is just one of many examples of how writing warnings is a bad idea and leads down the wrong path. Always watch what you are doing, where you put your feet, what's at eye level etc. If you are hardcore into mines, you're probably already carrying a multigas detector and checking O2, CO, etc.
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